Author: Klemen Vodlan

On our portal (www.climbistria.com) you can from now on find in between climbing locations new feature - photo galleries from the specific crag! Check many nice photos from the photo galleries like for example: Mišja peč, The big cave in Osp, Napoleonica, Kompanj, Pandora,

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In the Spider's roof of big wall in Osp Janez Svoljšak, the Ice climbing World cup competitor, onsighted his first 8a - the first part of beautiful Active discharge. The most famous route of the cave this year is Jurij Ravnik's Helihopter v omaki. The 30 meters long, really steep and powerful 8b, that was freed last year by Klemen Bečan and later repeated by

In one of the last days of the season, Croatian Jurica Levatić, working as a computer scientist in famous Institute of Jožef Štefan in Ljubljana, Slovenia, finished his hardest route to date, Vizija 8c in Mišja peč. With that ascent he became the 3rd Croatian to redpoint 8c. You can read more on his blog! Vizija is a 30 meters long route in the central part

A couple of days ago, 13 years old Croatian girl Jani Zoraj, living in Zagreb, redpointed her first 8b - the powerful classic Mrtvaški ples in Mišja peč. For a succesful ascent she needed nothing more then two days and seven attempts. Respect! Another 13 years old girl, this time Slovenian Lučka Rakovec, living in Ljubljana, redpointed her first 8a or harder with Sonce v očeh

Last days we saw currently the best rock climber in the world, Adam Ondra climbing in Mišja peč. First of all, he bolted a new line in Tedi's cave in the left part of Mišja peč. He bolted the first bolt in a blank section between Talk is cheap and Za staro kolo in majhnega psa making an incredible hard boulder start, then traversing to

Mountain association of Slovenia and Municipality of Koper have set up new signs for climbers on the entrance of the valley of Osp. On signs there are well explained rules of conduct: where to park your car, how to reach the crag, how to behave in the area,

Yesterday Slovakian climber Stefan Bednar sent the first part of Sanjski par, 8c+. It is a powerful route in Tedi's cave in the left part of Mišja peč all the time in full horrizontal terrain, first part ascended by Tadej Slabe already in 1994, graded first 8c. Years after a crucial hold on the second crux broke and it got upgraded to 8c+. The extension

Two days ago Polish climber Lukasz Dudek, born in 1983, climbed his 13th 9a - Xaxid Hostel in Mišja peč! This 40 meter long line took him two trips to finally clip the anchor of it. The route consists of first 15 meters of around 8c+ (FB boulder 8b) and then joins Ekstaza (8c+) to the top of the wall. This was the 4th ascent of

So many climbers were in Istria for Easter holidays, you can't imagine. Conditions were good, all the areas were visited and many hard routes were climbed all over the peninsula. Some of the highlights were: 12 years old Slovakian girl, daughter of two passionate climbers, Vanda Michalkova visited Mišja peč where on 6th of April she redpointed her first 8a, the steep and powerful Corto. Next