Author: Klemen Vodlan

Katie Lambert climbing Ptičja perspektiva (8a+) in Mišja peč @ photo by Benjamin Ditto www.bendittophoto.com Katie’s husband Benjamin Ditto, a professional photographer, who took the fabulous photos of her climbing in Mišja peč also redpointed Kaj ti je deklica (8b+) and onsighted Zadnja skušnjava (8a), just to mention a few of them. Katie Lambert is a Yosemite based professional climbing instructor with more than 20 years of

Jernej Kruder in Baratro @ photo by Luka Fonda Jernej Kruder returned from the World bouldering cup in Innsbruck this weekend where he despite looking strong in semifinals, unfortunately finished his competition without participating in the finals again. But the next day he was already in Baratro, summer secret crag near Trieste, where in rather bad and humid conditions redpointed the power endurance challenge Attila (8c/c+). Attila

Jurica Levatić on the top of Corrida (8c) @ photo by Luka Tambača Biggest accomplishments in the last days go for sure to Italian Enrico Cassol who redpointed his first 8c, the 55 meters long monster route called Osapska pošast in the big cave of Osp. Another 8c was climbed in Mišja peč by Jurica Levatić, strong Croatian that is now living in Ljubljana. Last year he

Looks like the bad weather is going to hit Istria in the next days as well. It should start raining today and unfortunately it won't end till the Monday morning. At least this is what meteorologists say. Until now there were perfect conditions for climbing in Istria. Summer crags like the big Osp cave was totally dry, tufas in the summer sector called Befana in Buzetski

Last days the weather in Istria was quiet strange, from rain to sun, but all the time with still fresh temperatures. The hardest redpoints were mainly done in now totally dry the big cave of Osp. Luka Šorli fired his first 8b+ ever, the 55 meters long endurance testpiece Active discharge. The same route was climbed as well on the same day by Italian Enrico Cassol in

Gogo in Snejkulčica (8b) in Kamena vrata @ photo by Anja Bečan Last week we saw climbing action all around Istria. The most remarkable ascents were: Italian guy Fabio De Cesero from Belluno achieved in his first 9a ever - Halupca 1979 in the big cave of Osp. Besides his first 9a redpoint, he also onsighted Helihopter v omaki (8b) in the same cave. In Mišja peč Slovakian

Domen Škofic in Medveja @ photo from his FB profile Domen Škofic has showed up after some years at a small »secret« Croatian crag Medveja. He easily onsighted Venga vecchio (8a) and Colpo di Fulmine (8b+), while for the bouldery Outdoorfingerspiele (8c) he needed only two tries after blowing his onsight attempt, of course everything in one short afternoon. Many hard routes to onsight and even

Andrea Maruna in Der Berg ruft (8b) @ Photo by Bernhard Fiedler (Andrea Maruna FB) Good weather forecast and perfect spring climbing conditions can’t keep the climbers to stay at home. The Austrian Andrea Maruna climbed the classic Der Berg ruft (8b) in the small cave on the far right side of Kompanj. Also in Kompanj, local Goran Matika aka Gogo made the first ascent of the

Luka Krajnc freed the last BIG project of the big wall in Osp – Stara (translated as “The old one”). This was the first route across the whole big wall of Osp which was done there, back in 1977, with aid climbing and was freed as the last one. The first ascensionists needed 10 days or 120 hours of effective climbing to reach the top

Yesterday, 18 years old Ukranian Fedir Samoilov, became the first Ukranian climber to clip the chains of a 9a. He succeed in Martin Krpan, the hardest route in the right part of Mišja peč. It is the 11th ascent of the route after first ascent done by strong Slovenian Jure Golob back in 2001. The futuristic line was bolted in the nineties of course by