Climbing

2/17/12 - Jimmy Webb has climbed his second Fontainebleau V14 with The Island.

2/17/12 - Daila Ojeda redpointed Mind Control (5.14c) in Oliana, Spain, yesterday.

2/16/12 - Six climbs by 15 alpinists—six of them American—have been nominated for the 20th edition of the Piolets d’Or, the annual prize for innovative mountaineering ascents across the world.

2/14/12 - Prominent Norwegian climbers Bjørn-Eivind Årtun, 45, and Stein-Ivar Gravdal, 37, died while attempting a new ice route on the big wall of Kjerag, Lyesbotn, in southwest Norway.

2/10/12 - New England’s biggest crag, Cannon Cliff, has seen some cool winter action in recent weeks, with a couple of new variations to the classic Icarus in the middle of the cliff as well as the second winter “ascent” of the mile-long girdle traverse of the crag.

2/9/12 - Climbing pioneer Herb Conn passed away in his home near Custer, South Dakota, on February 1, at the age of 91.

2/9/12 - The 2011 Guy Lacelle Pure Spirit Award is being presented to crack climber extraordinaire Jean-Pierre "Peewee" Ouellet of Québec.

2/9/12 - The Muir Valley Nature Preserve (MVNP), a major climbing area in the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, is in danger of closing.