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Between July 22, 2011, and August 28, 2011, Russian/Ukrainian climbers Marina Kopteva, Galina Chibitok and Anna Yasinskaya spent thirty-eight days establishing a new route, Parallelniy Mir (VI+ 6b A3), on the northwest face of Great Trango Tower (6238m). The team was recently voted the recipients the Russian Piolet d'Or, the first all-women's team to receive the award. Great Trango Tower, first climbed in 1977 by Dennis Hennek, Jim Morrissey, John Roskelley, Galen Rowell and Kim Schmitz is located on the
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from The Alpinist - newswire
June 25, a team led by Alexander Odintsov climbed a new route on the west face of Latok III (6949m). Odintsov and team members Alexey Lonchinskiy, Ivan Dozhdev and Eugeniy Dmitrenko began this expedition on June 10, establishing nine camps in their fifteen-day climb. Two days after reaching the summit, the team returned to base camp. This climb caps an eleven year bid for the west face of Latok III. Prior to Odintsov's success, Latok III had only one route to its summit. This line ran up the peak's ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
In what he calls "3-in-1 style," Jozef "Dodo" Kopold put up two new mixed lines in Slovakia's High Tatras mountains, climbing "fast, free and solo." On November 18 and 19, Kopold soloed a 500-meter line on Maly Ganek (2425m) and an 800-meter line on Rumanov Stit (2428m), a sub-summit of Ganek. Situated on the northern border of Slovakia, the High Tatras are known for frequent blizzard conditions, making climbing remarkably similar to the Scottish Highlands, Kopold said. Steep north faces of frozen grass
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