Michi Wohlleben - Who is Who?
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- Damian Granowski
Michael Wohlleben is professional alpinist. His hardest ascents are: Eiger Northface Teamspeed Ascent (5h10min), First Winter nonstop Trilogy of the Tre Cime Northfaces (15h42min), First Ascent Pray for Power M14, First free ascents of Antro.po.cene (Taghia 500m, 8a), Gehts noch Doc (Blankenstein 250m, 8a), Hystrix (Sicilia 220m, 8a), Ramadan 8b onsight and 3x8c redpoint.
100 Best Mountaineering Books ever written
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- Damian Granowski
Here you have list of best mountaineering books ever written. You will find here books from alpinists, climbers, himalaists
Angelika Rainer - Who is Who?
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- Damian Granowski
Angelika Rainer is one of the best female drytooling climbers. she won the Ice climbing World championship in 2009, 2011 and 2013 in South Corea and she also won the Worldcup ranking in 2012 and 2015. Her hardest drytooling routes are Steel Koan and Kamasutra (both D13+). She is also very good at free climbing, she climbs routes up to 8b+. She did first female ascent of Italia 61. A 250m long 8a route on Piz Ciavaces (Dolomites)
Climbing forums in the world
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- Damian Granowski
In almost every country where is rock is usually some climbing community. There are lot of local websites about climbing, but not every has a climbing forum, where you can speak with climbing community in this country. Here is list of climbing forums:
Siesta with Marion
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- Pavel Vrtík (Bača)
At the end of September 2014 Pavel "Bača" Vrtík and Dušan "Stoupa" Janák climbed the north face of the Grandes Jorasses, the Alps, France-Italy border. They repeated a line called No Siesta with a four pitches variant to a Bonatti-Voucher line (because of a lack of ice). On the route they spent two nights and endured one snowstorm.
Read an English translation of Bača´s article Siesta with Marion about the ascent (the original article in Czech available at Lezec.cz).
Ramon Marin - Who is who?
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- Damian Granowski
I meet Ramon Marin in Canmore (Canada), where we climb in Cineplex. He do Musashi M12, Steel Koan M13+ and some nice icefalls. Here is interview with this strong guy from Spain (or England).
Dragon Flight Through the North Face of Les Droites
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- Pavel Vrtík (Bača)
The bells were ringing in the dale,
And men looked up with faces pale.
The dragon's ire, more fierce than fire,
Laid low their towers and houses frail.
Raphael Slawinski – Who is Who?
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- Damian Granowski
In may 2014 I made interview with Raphael Slawinski. Originally interview was in polish, but I translated this to english. You must be prepared, than in text will be some (MY) translation mistakes :-). Original text you will find here.