climbing.com - Hot Flashes
7/19/10 - This weekend saw competition greats gathering in Arco, Italy,
for the RockMaster 2010, one of the most prestigious competitions in the
climbing world.
7/16/10 - The newly-opened Stone Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, the largest
climbing gym in the nation, inaugurated its second month with the 2010
SCS Youth National Championships, drawing more than 300 of the
nation’s most talented young climbers.
7/13/10 - The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Lead and
Speed World Cups wrapped up today in Chamonix, France, with Spain's
Ramón Julian Puigblanque and French climber Charlotte Durif
finishing first in the men's and women's lead comp.
7/9/10 - Recently, Madaleine Sorkin and Kate Rutherford completed the
first female-team free ascent of Free Rider (VI 5.12d, 37 pitches), a
four-pitch variation to the Salathé Wall that is the most popular
free line on the main face of El Cap.
7/9/10 - A little over a week ago, Jacinda Hunter, 31, nabbed the FA of
her project Fantasy Island, a 5.14b in Utah’s American Fork Canyon.
7/9/10 - In mid-June, Colin Haley and Bjørn-Eivind Årtun
teamed up and established a new mixed route on the Southeast Face of
Mount Foraker in Alaska.
News link: Alex Honnold, most recently in the media for his speedy solo
link-up of the Regular Northwest Face and the Nose, returned to El Cap
with Sean Leary to do a triple link-up of the Nose, Salathé Wall,
and Lurking Fear in a single day.
7/6/10 - The second-to-last Bouldering World Cup of 2010 transpired this
past weekend in Sheffield, England, where a crowd of more than 20,000
amassed to watch the world's highest-ranked climbers battle it out.
6/28/10 - The fifth round of neck-and-neck Bouldering World Cup action
continued last weekend in Eindhoven, Holland.
6/25/10 - On June 22, Alex Honnold did a solo link-up of the Regular
Northwest Face (5.12a, 23 pitches) of Half Dome and the Nose (5.9, C1,
31 pitches), breaking several Yosemite speed records.
6/24/10 - After recovering from a serious shoulder injury sustained in
February 2009 at ABS Nationals, Ethan Pringle has bagged the third
ascent of The Wheel of Life at the Hollow Mountain Cave in the
Grampians, Australia.
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