Альпинизм и скалолазание, mountaineering & rock-climbing

28 May 2009
Kazakhstan Expedition Everest Lhotsze-2009 - Sergey Samoilov perished on Lhotse

May 27, 2009 Evening message from Ervand Ilyinskiy “Group 1 (Maxut Zhumayev and Vasiliy Pivtsov) and Group 2 (Svetlana Sharipova, Nikolay Gutnik and Dmitriy Grekov) are in Camp1 (6100м) together. Plan to go across Khumbu glacier down to...

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26 May 2009
Cho Oyu on the south-east wall - HOME!

General sponsors of the expedition: NEWTECH, KAZAKHSTAN KAGAZY. May 26 Today, 3.20 am, after two days at the airport due to the Deli breakage plane, Denis Urubko and Boris Dedeshko finally arrived home! May 20 Message from Dennis:...

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23 May 2009
Elbrus Race presents traditional and new events

The festival held from May 6 to 11 was only the second of its kind. This year it attracted over 80 participants from Austria, Australia, Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine. The event was held in...

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18 May 2009
Urubko: New Route on Cho Oyu for 14th 8,000'er

Kazakh climber Denis Urubko has summited 8,201-meter Cho Oyu by an alpine-style ascent of the difficult southeast face, a stylish finish to his quest to climb all 14 8,000-meter peaks. The 2,800-meter face was first climbed in 1978 by an Austrian...

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12 May 2009
The International Mountaineering Festival "Ergaki 2009"

The International Mountaineering Festival “Ergaki 2009” will be held in Russia, in the Western Sayan Mountains (Krasnoyarsk Territory) from the 5th of July up to the 29h of July in 2009. Ergaki is a wonderful climbing area with long...

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25 April 2009
Rock climbing at Yangshuo, China

With Moon Hill, The White Mountain and 30 other crags, Yangshuo is one of the most important and interesting areas for rock climbing in China. Yangshuo is a little-known corner of China, at present far removed from mass tourism but destined to...

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23 May 2009
Photo Championship Kazakhstan bouldering 2009

From 16 th to 19 th April 2009, in Almaty, in a specialized center climbing «SKALA», was the Championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan sport climbing 2009. Championship Results posted...

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12 May 2009
Max did it!

Kazakh Climbers are well known in climbing community as real professionals. They amazed peoples by their climbing achievements and there is always a thought that those are not their only talents. There is an opinion – “Talented man is...

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25 April 2009
Rock climbing at Yangshuo, China

With Moon Hill, The White Mountain and 30 other crags, Yangshuo is one of the most important and interesting areas for rock climbing in China. Yangshuo is a little-known corner of China, at present far removed from mass tourism but destined to...

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27 March 2009
The Katon–Karagai state national nature park

According to the Decree of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the natural national park was created on Southern Altai in 2001 on the territory of Katon-Karagayskiy administrative region. The majority of its territory is in the zone of alpine relief. It...

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2 October 2008
K2 summit push special: Aggei’s SMS from the NW ridge, "Forgive me father for I am fed up"

02:26 pm CDT Aug 23, 2007 (K2Climb.net) A few days back, ExWeb published an image of a Kazakh kid in a high camp on K2’s NW ridge. He looked at the camera with the eyes of a young man at his limit. ExWeb contributor Andrey Verkhovod has provided...

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19 June 2009
новый состав Президиума ФАиС РК

16 июня 2009 года состоялось заседение Презудиума ФАиС РК. На заседении Президиума было решено избрать Валиева К.Ш. временно исполняющим...

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25 May 2009
Another 9th grade by Toni Lamprecht

“Pe’ahi” is the name given to a big wave surfing reef break in Maui, called “Jaws” due to the size and ferocity of the waves. The new Kochel route, in the South of Germany, is called “Jaws 11” due to...

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20 May 2009
Lhotse summits - Hiro on top

Japanese climber Hirotaka Takeuchi has just called his home team from Lhotse summit. Teaming up with Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Ralf Dujmovits and David Göttler, it is yet unclear whether his mates have topped-out as well. Such being the case,...

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13 May 2009
Melloblocco 2009: record number of climbers at the great international bouldering festival in Val di Mello, Val Masino.

When: from Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 May 2009 Where: Val di Mello (Val Masino – Sondrio) What: the “bouldering game” at the most famous international bouldering meeting in the world Who: everyone will participate: champion...

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6 May 2009
Adam Ondra and the first 8c on-sight in Italy

A fortnight ago Adam Ondra from the Czech Republic on-sighted Italy’s first 8c, Nagay at Covolo. The 16-year-old then doubled his takings with Una Vida Nomada the same day. Two weeks ago Adam Ondra decided to try his luck at the Italian...

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