News

04 Jan 2010

TWO WEEKS AT THE ICE MASTER WORLD CUP

In less than 15 days the 2010 Ice Master World Cup’s edition is going to start and preparations feverish in Pracul’s plain for setting the place where the competition is going to take place, waiting for the athletes and competitions, set on 16th and 17th January.

Also this year the competition is going to host the speed competition, in addition to the traditional difficulty competition, doubling the show.

Moreover, for the first time, Daone’s competition is gonna be the second appointment of the Ice Master World Cup and not the starting one as in the past. In fact the series is going to start on 8th and 9th January in Kirov, Russia.

It’s necessary the building of two structures and the volunteers’ work doubles, reaching the top in these days.

Maurizio Gallo, engineer and responsible for the competition’s structures, says: “We are nearly ok with the building of the structures that is going to host the competition, even if the work is quite a lot. The competition’s place won’t be so different from the one used last year, because the organization is waiting for the new climbing structures which we are gonna use from the next season with a permanent place ( the structures are set about hundred meters below ).”

These days the organizers and the volunteers ( they are 15 and they are working hardly under the supervision of the engineer Gallo ) are reinforcing some beams which were the skeleton of the last year climbing walls. About the competition’s routes they are working to create new grips and different volumes in order to make the competition more dynamics and difficulty, as the athletes’ skill is growing more and more.

The Ice Master World Cup is always told the more and difficulty competition of the series and the organizers want to underline this particular aspect.

From the meteorological point of view the situation is positive: after the high temperatures of the week before Christmas, now is much better, they are comforted by the last days – 8° C. With these temperatures the competition’s structure will be at the top in the mid of January.

The entering have opened for some days. There are important entering yet, like the one of the strong Russian team, which will be in Daone in great numbers, even if the large number of the athletes will enter, as usual, some days before the competition.

Daone Valley with its 146 natural falls, the heaven of the ice climbing, is ready to host all the stronger athletes of the world of this sport and lots of fans who is going to come to this place to see the Big or to try to climb the ice walls, taking part to the meeting about the iced falls.