http://www.daoneicemaster.it/ Daoneicemaster - RSS http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/97 Centinaia di partecipanti tra bambini e adulti per le manifestazioni parallele alla nona edizione dell'Ice Master   Ottimo successo per l'Ice Meeting, la manifestazione rivolta alla gente che ha fatto di cornice anche alla nona edizione di Ice Master del patron Romolo Ghezzi. Oltre 100 persone hanno infatti partecipato a Ice Test Days, un’iniziativa rivolta ai ghiacciatori (esperti e non), che, con l’aiuto delle guide alpine, hanno potuto migliorare la propria tecnica, sulla parete di ghiaccio realizzata nel parterre della competizione o sulle cascate naturali di cui la Valle di Daone è ricca. Tra le guglie di ghiaccio si è parlato anche dei segreti dell’arrampicata e delle ultime novità dal punto di vista dei materiali e degli equipaggiamenti. “La partecipazione agli Ice Test Days è stata ottima – spiega Mauro Girardi, curatore di questo evento – soprattutto per la partecipazione di tanti ghiacciatori esperti che hanno comunque trovato interessante questa proposta. Abbiamo scalato assieme a loro delle cascate di ghiaccio localizzate nell'alta Val di Daone, in una zona praticamente vergine, alte 20-30 metri. Ce ne sono anche di più imponenti, dai 50 ai 100 metri, ma per una questione di sicurezza abbiamo ritenuto di fermarci a quelli di misure medie”. Sempre sul tema della sicurezza, era stato proposto, nel pomeriggio del sabato, un seminario con l'esperto meteo Gianluca Tognoni con il quale si è parlato di valanghe e soprattutto di prevenzione e di sicurezza, una tematica quanto mai attuale.   Anche lo "Junior Ice Park" è andato benissimo, con la partecipazione di centinaia di bambini e di 3 scuole locali. Si tratta di un'area riservata ai giovanissimi con tanti giochi e attività per conoscere più da vicino la montagna e le sue risorse, in tutta sicurezza e sotto la guida di personale esperto. Un parco della natura, dove i bambini ed i ragazzi hanno potuto, attraverso esperienze dirette, conoscere il lavoro di quanti hanno fatto dei monti e dell’ambiente naturale la propria professione e la propria vita. Musica, animazione sulla neve e un grande gonfiabile (preso d'assalto dai bambini) hanno fatto da cornice a questo spazio che vuole sottolineare l’attenzione degli organizzatori verso i più giovani e le iniziative di aggregazione sociale e di promozione del territorio. Le attività sono state organizzate all’interno di cinque postazioni tematiche, che proponevano altrettante sfaccettature della montagna all’insegna ora del divertimento, ora dell’apprendimento, ma tutte accomunate dall'amore e dal rispetto per la natura.   Infine, "Alla scoperta della Val di Daone con le ciaspole", una passeggiata non competitiva con le racchette da neve ai piedi alla scoperta di angoli nascosti e delle malghe locali, per scoprire, di notte, la grandezza di questo posto straordinario.     info@webbins.it News Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CET Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:44:56 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/96 INTERVIEWS FOR BENDLER IT WAS A VERY DIFFICOULT ROUTE GRAFTIAUX’S WINNING WEAPON WAS CONCENTRATION   Markus Bendler surpasses his self and the extreme limits which the route setters placed in the final of the Ice Master World Cup 9th edition. The Austrian said: “ This year t was very hard. In isolation I was very nervous because I was frightened of the young in fit Korean Park Hee Yong. As soon as I saw the route and the more demanding stretches I was sure to be able to do it. I know hoe the Italian route setters work, so I expected a very difficult circuit. For this reason I’m doubly satisfied to be the only one climber who reached the top. It was a very demanding competition from the physical point of view. The last few metres were difficult and I had stiffen arms”. Even if he placed second, Park Hee Yong is satisfied. He says: “To be so close to Bendler is like to have won for me. He is a great and high level champion. My dream is to win but in this moment I can only learn as much as I can from Bendler. There is Saas Fee competition to get closer to him. I’m satisfied for the result and in particular for being in, in a so important competition like the Daone Ice Master World Cup. I would to join it three years ago but I didn’t succeeded in it”. It was a surprise for the final success of the Belgian Chloe Graftiaux : “ It was an unexpected result for me. I’m very happy for my first victory in my life. I haven’t decided yet how to celebrate it, but I’ll a big party. I think my winning weapon in Daone was the concentration and the determination. I was very nervous but this adrenalin got a positive element ”. Stephanie Maureau, she was given the winner among women, had to give up in front of the freshness of the Belgian. She said: “She was fabulous. In Daone I suffered from the very long routes so I wasn’t in the right fit to face them. I’m satisfied because I put all my forces in the semi – finals and in the evening I pull my energy together and in the final I succeeded in placing on the podium. The trentina competition is a great event “. Romolo Ghezzi, the chairman of the Committee, has a bright smile on his face: “ Lots of things make me satisfied of this edition. Everything was all right, starting from the public which was in a large number. We started good on Thursday with the open parade through the streets of the village. People took part to it in a large number, in particular thanks to the Fanfara. The ice structure captured your attention at first sight, thanks to the volunteers who worked hard to built it. Moreover media were in a large number by comparison with the previous years”. Maurizio Gallo commented the technical aspect: “ In the final there was the longest route ever for an ice climbing competition. I think that the discipline with Daone’s competition overcame every lead limit. The weather and temperatures helped us. For the first time we were live on Saturday for 2 hours on Rai. Then we got a summary on Sunday evening and the presence of Sky, one report on Mediaset. I think it’s the top “. Attilio Munari ends the interview and said: “ We tried to set a new route because the technical level is more and more higher, which allows an hard selection among climbers. It wasn’t so easy set the max time of climbing. Our next challenge will be to set the route of the 10th Ice Master edition, which will be hosted on the new permanent structure. It will be like starting again” .   info@webbins.it News Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:28:57 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/93 At the end Markus Bendler succeeded in climbing the very difficult hill, facing all the obstacles that anybody before him manage to overcome. The Austrian, who won the 2009 Ice Master edition and dominated the 1st stage of the World Cup in Kirov ( Russia ), prevailed the lead competition, succeeding in ending the whole and very technical route ( it took 9 min and 49 sec. ) reaching 35 meters in height under the incredulous sight of the public. The route was very demanding and full of obstacles. Besides the length, which challenged the muscles and the tendons of the athletes, one in particular was the stretch which challenged more the climbers: the “lumps of sugar”, that is the two cylindrical icy blocks hanged by chains, through which the climbers had to pass horizontally from one side to the others. This stretch was fatal for many climbers but not for Markus Bendler. The Korean Park Hee Yong stopped few meters from the top, placing second and the Swiss Patrick Aufdenblatter third. Behind them ( with a very similar score: they slipped on the lumps of sugar ) placed Maxim Tomilov ( Russia ), the expert Yevgen Kryvosheytsev ( Ukraine ), the Russian Stanislav Lobzov and Sergey Tarasov and at the 8th place Valentyn Sypavin ( Ukraine ). Among women Chloe Graftiaux won. All the lead competitors were surprised by her who reached the top very easy ( it took 10’’ and 30 cent. ) and it took 20 sec less than the Russian Ludmilla Badalyan. Further behind placed the French Stephanie Maureau who made a brilliant competition going through valuable technical stretch and at the end she gave up few meters from the top. This year the circuit was very hard with its 27 meters in height. The route, drown by Attilio Munari, had different hard and demanding stretches. The selection among climbers was string: among women only 2 athletes reached the blu grip, which was the symbol of the end of the competition. Other female athletes, beginning from the French Maureau and passing through the 4th place with the Czech Lucie Hrozova and through the 5th with the Korean Wha Leong Woon, almost reached the top stopping few meters before the arrival. At the 6th position placed the Russian Anna Gallyamova, at the 7th the young Swiss Felicitas Feller ( Class ’90 ) and the Bulgarian Radka Petkova placed third in the speed competition on Saturday. It’s a very “squeezed” rank which confirms the high technical level of these girls. info@webbins.it News Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:20:15 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/92   Also this year the speed competition is marked by Russians. Among men, Pavel Batushev won, beating at the end the compatriot Pavel Gulayev, who in the previous round was faster than the other one. It was fatal in the first round a failure in a “missed grip”. Igor Lysenko placed third and in the final competition prevailed on Igor Fyzullin. The result was surprising also because Pavel Gulayev, world record holder of the 15 meters speed ( it took 8 sec!!), keeping this record until the end. Batushev bat the compatriot Alexei Tomilov and then Lysenko in the semi – final. Instead Gulayev started passing the Slovak Juraj Svingal and going on with a record semi – final ( 6’’52 and 6’’54 ) where Fyzullin lost against him. As usual the public was there for the competitions and after that it could get warmer in the tent, where it could take some refreshment. The women’s speed competition was balanced and very excited until the end. Also here the Russians dominated the competition. They came in Daone Valley in a large number ( they were more than the half of the entered female athletes ) and they dominated the quarter finals, the semi – finals and the finals, confirmed the high quality of the east athletes. Viktoria Shabalina, starting number 6, won the competition which took place at about 12 am and it was broadcasted live on Rai Sport Più. The final between Shabalina ( total time 24’’02 ) and the compatriot nadezda Shubina was very challenging in both of rounds. At the end the two Russians were separated only by 69’’. In the semi – finals Shubina bat the other Russian Ludmilla Badalyan, while the winner Shabalina imposed from the heats a nearly untenable rhythm, leaving behind in the first semi – final the Bulgarian Redka Petkova, the only non Russian athlete placed among the first four placed athletes. In the final for the third and fourth place, Badalyan was passed by Petkova, because of a “missed grip”.     info@webbins.it News Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:27:53 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/91 There was few surprises in the first competition day in Daone, in particular referring to men’s sector. In the lead competition went to finals the king Markus Bendler ( Austria ), who won in Daone in 2007 and 2009 and today he is the World Cup holder. He reached the semi – final route top very easily. It was a very selective circuit. with its 25 metres in height and 35 in width. The Korean Park Hee Yong, every year he becomes more and more competitive, the Swiss Patrik Aufdenblatten and the very expert Yevgen Kryvosheytsev from Ukraine put their ice axes in the blue grip ( it shows the arrival ), too. The Ukrainian Valentyn Sypavin and the Russian Stanislav Lobzov and Sergey Tarasov qualified for the final, too. Herbert Klammer, who represents Italy, was very unlucky. He is from the Aurina Valley he did a good competition in which he placed 9th, the one of the first excluded. He said: “ It was the head which made the difference and today it hasn’t worked properly!”. Javier Bueno Berges, Alexey Tomilov and Nikolay Primerov did all right, but not enough to have the right to compete, on the circuit characterised by a crossing similar to the moon surface and by other two which remind to diamonds. Also two Italians, Matteo Rivadossi and Kurt Astner, the “ghiacciatore” from Tures Valley, were out from the open. Among women, it was very bitter for Angelika Rainer. In the semi – final she stopped by a hair from the final qualification, because of a mistake in the second part of a hard route full of traps but of course accessible to her. Rainer fell in one of these but she wasn’t the only one. Only four female athletes reached the top, lots of them stopped where grips became more insidious, others lower. Among them there was the other Italian girl, Giulia Venturelli, the Italian winner in office, who left the scene after few metres. It’s was a failure for Rainer who was at the top of the World Cup rank, loosing the chance to increase her score: “ I lost the support on the last icy stretch before the dry – stone stretch. It’s an atypical stretch for a mountaineer and I lost the landmark and I felt down”. The Belgian Chloe Graftiaux dominated the semi – final in 6 min and 40 sec and behind her there was the Korean Woon Jeong, detached from 9 sec. Anna Gallyamova from Russia and Lucie Hrzova from Czech Republic placed in the semi – final. Ludmilla Badalyan ( Russia ), Stephanie Moreau ( France ), Radka Petkova ( Bulgaria ) and the young Swiss Felicitas Feller qualified even without reaching the top. Temperatures will be stable for all the competition with -8°. It’s very good for the competition! Sunday’s program starts at 10.15 with women’s final. For men we have to wait until 14.15 pm. Then prizes will be given to athletes with the Fanfara like background. Routes, one for men and one for women, will be 2 longer and more spectacular circuits than the others.       info@webbins.it News Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:27:04 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/90 When darkness fells over the valley, according to tradition, the chairman of the organizing Committee of the “Trentina” stage of the Ice World Cup, Romolo Ghezzi, lighted the brazier up, which was placed next to the ice stadium. This way he officially started the 9th edition of the event, which uses to attract the attention for 2 days on the Daone Valley. As usual the ceremony was preceded by the parade of the Fanfare “Brigade Taurinense”, which marched through the streets of the village. Tomorrow’s program opens at 9.30 am with men’s lead competition, which will qualify athletes for the afternoon semi – final. In parallel, from 10 am, there is women’s speed competition on the ice wall built next to the ice stadium. The whole event will be filmed live by RAI SPORT PIU’ cameras. The afternoon starts with women’s qualifications ( from 4.45 pm onwards ) and later on, from 7.45 pm, men’s semi – final. Then the outdoor village will host athletes and the public in the tent before getting bright thank to the 9 pm fireworks show. Few minutes later it starts the marvellous men’s speed competition, where the Cassa Rurale Adamello Brenta trophy will be given. It’s a very rich program! Good news from the temperatures point of view: in fact they should keep below zero, both on Saturday and Sunday, when men’s and women’s lead final competition will take place. As usual the entered athletes, are in a large number and they come from 16 different nations. The more represented nation is Russia : it counts 22 athletes against 5 Italians and Spanish, 4 from BeNeLux, 3 Americans, Koreans, Romanians, Bulgarians and Slovenians. “Compared to the previous editions the number of athletes was steady but the quality of the athletes increased, said Maurizio Gallo. Here in Pracul come only the more qualified athletes and for this reason Italians are fewer than usual”. Italy will be well represented by Angelika Reiner from Merano, who won the lead competition in Kirov and by Herbert Klammer from Alto Adige, who placed 5th in Russia. Among men Markus Bendler is given the winner. He won in Daone in 2007 and in 2009. He won in Kirov, too. He placed in a better position than the Russian Alexey Dengin and Vasily Terekhin, both of them in Daone.             info@webbins.it News Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:14 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/89   THE VOLOUNTEERS     They are called “night’s artists”. They are volunteers and every year,  from December to January, they work hard in order to build the structure where the World Cup takes place. It’s thanks to them if the competition can start.   The new challenge for them is to make the highest part of the structure icy. It’s a very hard task but they can succeed in it.   Romolo Ghezzi said: “They are fantastic and every year they do miracles. The most important thing is that our volunteers come from the whole Chiese valley and even from Storo and Brescia suburbs. Every year we loose some volunteers but it’s not a problem because there are always new people who want to help us with the organization. They use to start working at 5 pm and they keep working until the early morning.”   These volunteers are never tired and they never stop. In their breaks they like drinking “grappa” because it gives them energy. Their names are: Stefano Losa, Loris Losa, Renzo Colotti, Dorizio Ghezzi, Tiziano Ghezzi, Oscar Ghezzi, Gino Ghezzi, Ernesto Fioroni, Roberto Vigori, Daniele Corradi, Marco Beltramolli, Tiziano Donina, Marco Donina, Antonio Ghezzi, Yuri Corradi, Diego Pellizzari, Alberto Ghezzi, Elvio Ghezzi, Franco Leonardi, Aldo Pellizzari, Gino Pellizzari, Roberto Moreni, Pierino Baldracchi, Federico Bonazza, Luigi Losa, Mauro Oliari e Fabio Nicolini.                                                                VISIT GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHIC                                                         Press Office  PegasoMedia srl (www.pegasomedia.it)                                                               info@webbins.it News Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:07:58 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/88 This morning the Trentino Spa’s Rombo room hosted the presentation of the 12th “Ice Master World Cup” edition set in Daone. Next week end the ice – spiders are challenging on the ice wall set in Pracul, in the unique Italian World Cup’s stage: “ Romolo Ghezzi, the Committee’s President said: “ This event is a great opportunity from the media point of view for our valley and its beauties.” The major of Daone, Ugo Pellizzari, agreed with Romolo and underlined as “Daone valley is getting more and more like a meeting place for athletes and for people who like climbing, in particular thanks to the Ice Master and the Speed Rock and thanks to the new permanent structure, which will build next summer”. From next winter the Ice Stadium will find a new place in Limes, where will be built a modern structure, which will allow the organization of summer events and to the climb world will be given more attention. Giorgio Butterini, the spokesman of the majors of the Chiese Valley, spent words of respect towards the tourist aspect of this event: “International competitions like the Ice Master are great opportunities in order to develop the tourist potential of our area, because they allow to get in contact with the athletes’ world and with people who love nature and staying outdoor”. The competition will be brought to you live on Rai Sport Più, the digital channel which everybody from this year can watch clearly on Tv of most the Italian areas and from last October on all the Trentino’s Tv. The network, which auditel datas are getting higher and higher, will give one hour and forty minutes space live. The broadcast starts from Saturday 16th at 9.20 am to 11 pm.   Daone is among the top locations of the World Cup and in the 2010 calendar is the second of four competitions. The starting of the circuit is set in Kirov, Russia, where athletes challenged from January 7th to 9th and here Angleika Rainer from Merano won. January 22nd and 23rd athletes climb In Saas Fee in Switzerland and the first week end of February the World Cup ends in Busteni, Romania. The more waited athletes are the winners of the last world competition, that is the Russian Maria Tolokonina, Markus Bendler from Austria, who dominated the difficulty Cup and the Russian Pavel Gulyaev, the king of the speed. Not to forget is “our” Rainer, the diamond point of our nation. Maurizio Gallo, the responsible for the competition structure, explained: “ the preparation of the route needed the work of about ten volunteers and they spent whole days working hard. This year we tried to make the route more difficult, putting ice on the whole structure on a level of 20 meters. It was a hard work considering the high temperatures of the last days, which are not suitable for the ice . For this reason the volunteers’ work is more appreciate. They worked until late at night with buckets of snow and water to build a structure which can not challenge with the others in the World Cup circuit. From the point of view of the competitions we gave more importance to the main competitions which will be live, in order to give to people a high level show”. Then Gallo took the stock of the entered athletes until now: “ More than 80 athletes from 16 nations confirmed their presence. We want to underline the presence after lots of years of the Americans and Koreans”. The Ice Master is not only a competition. The Committee thought about some initiatives to entertain people. There are three the initiatives for public. The first one is the “Junior ice Park “, an area for children with lots of plays and activities in order learn the mountains and its resources, in complete safety under the supervision of qualified people. For adults there are the “Ice tasting Days “, an initiative for ice climbers experts and not, who with the help of alpine guides, can improve their technique. The other initiative for adults is a non – competitive walk with snow rackets entitled “ Discovering Daone Valley with snow rackets”, in order to discover the more hidden places of the valley.                 Ufficio stampa PegasoMedia srl (www.pegasomedia.it)                                                info@webbins.it Press releases Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:21:02 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/87                                             The “cascatismo” meeting is cultural and educational   While the champions will challenging on the ice wall contending for the trophy of the Italian step of the Ice Climbing World Cup, hundred fans will take part to the 11th edition of “La Sportiva International Meeting Pareti di Cristallo”, climbing the falls of Daone Valley ( they are 146 ) which in winter get wonderful icy practice walls. They are perfect for the meeting which it has been organizing since 1989. Here climbers with ice pick and climbing irons find hard walls to climb, facing the cold and the verticality.   This event has the purpose to spread culture, teaching to people attending it the rules about safety, nourishing the respect towards nature and meantime underling the risks which people can run climbing or joining the mountain. This meeting sponsored by La Sportiva, a firm from Trentino which produces mountain and climbing equipment and it supports the Ice Master, will take place from 16th to 22nd January in the Valley very close to the Natural Park Adamello Brenta.   The event can be considered a real stage of ice climbing on all levels, an educational moment dedicated to the safety techniques used to climb. It is organised with the Alpine Guides of trentino and with the “Friends of Arco” Association, coordinated by the qualified alpine guide Mauro Girardi. This year the meeting would to renew and it will be about “Having fun in complete safety”.   Others activities will be organized with this guides, for ex. short walks in the wood with the snow rackets and climbs on the artificial icy wall and on the fall. There will be a stage entitled “snow and avalanches” in order to prevent bad accidents in this field.   Garmont, a firm from Montebelluna which produces alpine skiing boots, would to bring to attention important themes linked to safety as: the planning of a day trip on the snow, the good use of the snow forecast, the rules to go on a snow ground and to choose the itinerary, how to recognise a dangerous ground… These stages are suitable for people who use to go to the mountains in winter to practice winter sports . It’s an important meeting dedicated to the improvement of the safety techniques and activities organized with the alpine guides “Friends of Arco”. From Friday the 15th at 2 pm athletes will be welcomed in the Committee office in Daone. From Saturday morning it starts a schedule made of lessons about falls’ secrets, technical drills and obviously the lead competitions. All the outdoors activities will be followed by the alpine guides “Friends of Arco”.   info@webbins.it Articles Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:01:37 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/86   The stronger athletes of the world at the Ice Climbing Stadium   The Ice Master is going to be a demanding and technical competition live on RAI networks. Maurizio Gallo explained that the organizers have tried to build new and demanding routes in order to underline the technical ability of the athletes.   Daone Ice Master is the second stage of the World Cup circuit. The first of four competitions: the first part of the world circuit was in Kirov in Russia. The lead competition was dominated by Angelika Rainer from Merano followed by the Russian Liudmila Badalyan and by Markus Bendler from Austria followed by the Russian Alexey Dengin). The speed competition were won by Nadezda Shubina and by Maxim Vlasov, both of them are Russian.   The other two stages of the world circuit will take place on 22nd and 23rd in Saas Fee in Switzerland and the first week end of February the competition will end in Busteni, Romania. The 9th Ice Master edition will host both the specialities and all the athletes of Kirov may be in Pracul. It’s official the presence of Markus Bendler who won 2007 and 2009 editions in the lead speciality, Park Hee Yong from Korea and the brothers Matevz and Jerney Vukotic from Slovenia, who dominated the last two editions ( 2008 and 2009 ) in the speed speciality. In the sprint competition where athletes challenge for the 3rd trophy Cassa Rurale Adamello Brenta, Yevgen Kryvosheytsev ( among men ) from Ucraina is to follow with attention. Among women the French Stèphanie Maureau deserves attention. Moreover there is the registrations of three Americans athletes, after 2 years of absence. The Russian team is great and in Daone will be very large. As usual, other athletes will enter few days before the competition.   There will be lots of qualified climbers which have to pay attention to new strong athletes like Angelika Rainer from Merano. It’s not to forget the winners of the last edition, that is the Russian Maria Tolokonina, who in 2009 won both the specialities and the Russian Pavel Gulyaev, the king of the lead. info@webbins.it Articles Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:15:36 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/85   The Ice Master will be brought to you live for the first time in the history of the Ice Climbing World Cup.   Thanks to the work of Videoframe Multimedia and PegasoMedia, the event will be live on Rai Sport Più on Saturday 16th January with a first link from 9.20 am to 11 am and a second link from 12 am to 12.30 am before the World Cup downhill of alpine skiing in Wengen. But it’s not all..   The summary of the competition of Sunday will be on on Sunday from 21.45 pm to 22.15 pm always on Rai Sport Più ( digital tv and satellite ). Moreover there will be a troupe of Sky Sport which will do a special report for the “Icarus” and “Games” column. To the event will be given space on “Odeon Tv”, on eighty local Italian televisions, in Telenordest program antitled “Neve Sport”, on Free in Friuli Venezia Giulia and on E’ Tv in Emilia Romagna and Marche. The particular attention accorded to the event by the local televisions as Rttr, Tca and Tgr3 regionale, is not to forget.                                           Press Office  PegasoMedia srl (www.pegasomedia.it)                                                                 info@webbins.it Press releases Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:21:55 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/84     After the visit in South Korea twelve months ago of the organizational responsible for the Ice Master, Riccardo Milani, next week end there will be a technique delegation representing the Korean Alpine Federation.   The Korean Alpine Federation worked with the UIAA and with the Korean Climbing Federation to organize in the Asiatic state the first World Ice Climbing Cup in 2011, in order to promote ice competitions and to create an organizational partnership for the future.   Until now a competition similar to the one set in Daone doesn’t exist in Korea. The twinning has the purpose to enhance the east mountain climbing, as it was made with the building of the “Piolet d’Or Asia” promoted by Grivel and by the Golden Climbing Shoes Award by La Sportiva. The history of the ice climbing in Daone began in 1979, when the first ice climbers went up the Leno fall and then named “the Queen of the lake”. Today it is one of the most attended and marvellous climb. In 1989 Placido Corradi and other climbers from Brescia and Verona, organized the first meeting entitled “ Pareti di Cristallo “ ( crystal walls ) of Daone Valley. It was successfully, both for the number of people attended the meeting and for the number of climbs and it was a news in the East Alps.   In 2000 the World Ice Climbing Cup was born. It was a six competitions circuit organized in the most famous places for this speciality. Daone Valley decided to create a Committee chaired by Candido Ghezzi and next year he allowed the event to take part to the UIAA tour and reached the top with the organization of the Boulder World Cup.   Today the experiences and the competition format created nine years ago by the Committee and chaired today by Romolo Ghezzi, could be exported in other states which want this speciality grow and develop.   The appointment in Daone Valley renews in order to turn on the tripod in Korea next year and starts a new stage for the circuit of the World Ice Climbing Ice.                                                Press Office  PegasoMedia srl (www.pegasomedia.it)                                                                        info@webbins.it News Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:28:44 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/83   Thanks to the precious staff of volunteers which is working for days to the competition’s structure it was possible to fulfil the Ice Master World Cup.   I’m not only talking about means and people who offer their work, but they are heros who challenge the snow and the cold in order to fulfil a high level show.   They are: Diego Pellizzari, Odorizio Ghezzi, Tiziano Ghezzi, Oscar Ghezzi, Gino Ghezzi, Ernesto Fioroni, Antonio Ghezzi, Daniele Corradi, Placido, Yuri Corradi, Fabio Nicolini, Dario Beltramolli, Marco Beltramolli, Tiziano e Marco Donina, Roberto Vigori, Stefano e Loris Losa, Franco Leonardi, Alberto Ghezzi, Elvio Ghezzi, Aldo Pellizzari, Gino Pellizzari, Roberto Moreni, Pierino Baldracchi, Federico Bonazza, Luigi Losa, Mauro Oliari and Renzo Colotti.   Thank to everybody!!   If the Ice Master World Cup and Daone Valley are so important and famous in the world and in the sport field the credit is without doubt yours!!   info@webbins.it Press releases Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:13:20 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/82     Si raddoppia con la coppa di difficoltà e velocità                              da venerdì 15 a domenica 17 gennaio 2010 in valle di Daone   Dal punto di vista tecnico è considerata la gara più spettacolare e impegnativa del circuito Mancano esattamente due giorni all’edizione 2010 dell’Ice World Cup di Daone in programma dal 15 al 17 gennaio e all’arrivo degli atleti e delle competizioni. Anche quest’anno la competizione ospiterà oltre alla tradizionale gara di difficoltà anche quella di velocità raddoppiando lo spettacolo. Inoltre,per la prima volta, la gara di Daone sarà il secondo appuntamento della Coppa del Mondo di questa disciplina e non più quello inaugurale, visto che la serie ha preso il via lo scorso 8 e 9 gennaio a Kirov in Russia. Spiega Maurizio Gallo, ingegnere e responsabile delle strutture di gara dell’Ice Master: “Il campo di gara di questa edizione non dovrebbe discostarsi troppo da quello che abbiamo utilizzato l’anno scorso, dato che l’organizzazione è in attesa delle nuove strutture di arrampicata che utilizzeremo a partire dalla prossima stagione (situate poche centinaia di metri più sotto) con una collocazione permanente”. In questi giorni gli organizzatori e i volontari, son in 15 a lavorare a ritmo pieno in questo particolare ambito sotto la guida dell’ingenier Gallo, stanno rinforzando alcune travi che costituivano lo scheletro delle pareti da arrampicata degli anni scorsi, mentre per quanto riguarda i percorsi di gara si sta lavorando per creare nuove prese e volumi differenti, al fine di rendere la gara sempre più “mossa” impegnativa,visto che la preparazione tecnica dei partecipanti è in costante crescita nel corso degli anni. Da sempre l’Ice Master World Cup di Daone, dal punto di vista tecnico, è considerata la gara più spettacolare ed impegnativa del circuito e gli organizzatori ci tengono ad enfatizzare questa caratteristica. Dal punto di vista meteorologico la situazione è incoraggiante “confortati” dalle temperature sotto lo zero delle ultime giornate. Con questi valori la struttura di gara si presenterà sicuramente al meglio. Sul fronte delle iscrizioni va ricordato che sono giunte conferme importanti,come quella della forte squadra russa, che si presenterà a Daone in forze,anche se il grosso dei nominativi si aggiungerà alla lista, come da tradizione,nei giorni a ridosso della gara. La Valle di Daone, con le sue 146 cascate naturali, il paradiso dell’arrampicata sul ghiaccio, è dunque pronta per ospitare tutti i più forti atleti del mondo di questo sport e anche i molti appassionati che verranno in Trentino per ammirare i grandi o per mettersi alla prova partecipando al meeting sulle cascate ghiacciate.                                                     Press Office  PegasoMedia srl (www.pegasomedia.it)                                                                                  info@webbins.it Press releases Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:44:34 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/80 The registered athlets on 13-01-10 are the following: Riportiamo sotto gli iscritti attuali in data 10-01-10 in categoria speed     Speed - Male    Nome Federazione Beverly Marc American Alpine Club Brouwer Corné NKBV - Nederland Bucci Benjamin FFCAM France Hoek Dennis NKBV - Nederland Kryvosheytsev Yevgen Ukrainian Mountaineering Federation Lalov Boyko BCMF Bulgaria Marin Andres American Alpine Club Mesman Jurgen NKBV - Nederland Petkov Mincho BCMF Bulgaria Spain Justin American Alpine Club Sypavin Valentyn Ukrainian Mountaineering Federation Vukotic Jerney Alpine Association of Slovenia Vukotic Matevz Alpine Association of Slovenia          Speed - Female   Nome Federazione Launits Nadezda Russian Mountaineering Federation MAUREAU Stéphanie FFCAM France Petkova Radka BCMF Bulgaria Steen Marianne NKBV - Nederland         info@webbins.it Press releases Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:29:11 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/79   The registered athlets on 10-01-10 are the following:      Lead - Male   Nome atleta Federazione Bendler Markus CAR Romania Beverly Marc American Alpine Club BLANCO ISRAEL FEDME Spain Brouwer Corné NKBV - Nederland Bucci Benjamin FFCAM France Bueno Berges Javier FEDME Spain Córdova Alegre Manuel FEDME Spain García Bello Carlos FEDME Spain Han Jung Hee Korean Alpine Federation Hoek Dennis NKBV - Nederland Kent Malcolm Koren Dejan Alpine Association of Slovenia Kryvosheytsev Yevgen Ukrainian Mountaineering Federation Lalov Boyko BCMF Bulgaria Lee Chang Hyon Korean Alpine Federation Logroño Viscasillas Carlos FEDME Spain Marin Andres American Alpine Club Mesman Jurgen NKBV - Nederland Park Hee Yong Korean Alpine Federation Petkov Mincho BCMF Bulgaria Spain Justin American Alpine Club Sypavin Valentyn Ukrainian Mountaineering Federation Vukotic Jerney Alpine Association of Slovenia Vukotic Matevz Alpine Association of Slovenia            Lead - Female Nome   Federazione   Chloe Graftiaux Belgium Climbing Federation Hrozova Lucie Czech Mountaineering Federation IONITA IOANA CAR Romania Jeong Woon Wha Korean Alpine Federation Launits Nadezda Russian Mountaineering Federation MAUREAU Stéphanie FFCAM France Petkova Radka BCMF Bulgaria Steen Marianne NKBV - Nederland info@webbins.it Press releases Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:29:21 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/81       In January 16th and 17th week end it will be on in Daone the Ice Master World Cup, the unique Italian stage of the World Cup hosted in Pracul. It’s going to be two days competitions particularly hard and in addition to the competition, there will be a frame made of some events, which are both for adults and for children and kids.   In particular, there will be two events opened to everybody. The first one is the “Junior Ice Park”, an area dedicated to children with lots of activities thought for helping them to learn the mountain and its resources. All of that is done in complete safety and under the supervision of qualified people. This area is a nature’s park where kids and children can learn through direct experiences the job of people who made the mountain their life. Adults can find activities dedicated to them like the “Ice Tasting Days”. It’s an initiative opened to experts and not ice climbers who can improve their technique thanks to the alpine guides’ help. There is the possibility to try the emotion of ice climbing like leader with the help of a private and qualified alpine guides. An initiative which deserves attention is the one entitled “Discovering Daone Valley with snow rackets”. It’s a non – competitive walk with the snow rackets in order to discover the more hidden places of the Valley and the mountain pastures of the area. Moreover there is an interesting debate concerning the prevention on the snow and it’s entitled “Let’s know the snow to prevent – Let’s learn to behave in case of avalanche” and it’s going to be on Saturday the 16th January from 4 pm to 7 pm. Here people can talk about prevention, avalanche and about the new technologies used by the Alpine Rescue. There is a lot do even if the more important attraction is the competition. Daone is the top World Cup competition and in the 2010 calendar is the second of four competitions. The opening of the circuit was in Kirov, Russia. January 22nd and 23rd athletes is going to climb in Saas Fee in Switzerland and the first week end of February the World Cup is going to end in Busteni, Romania. The more expected athletes are the winners of the last edition of the world competition, that is the Russian Maria Tolokonina who won in 2009 both the speed competition and the difficulty one and Markus Bendler, the one who dominated the difficulty Cup and finally Pavel Gulyaev, the king of the speed speciality. “Spiders” on Daone’s ice walls   In January 16th and 17th week end it will be on in Daone the Ice Master World Cup, the unique Italian stage of the World Cup hosted in Pracul. It’s going to be two days competitions particularly hard and in addition to the competition, there will be a frame made of some events, which are both for adults and for children and kids.   In particular, there will be two events opened to everybody. The first one is the “Junior Ice Park”, an area dedicated to children with lots of activities thought for helping them to learn the mountain and its resources. All of that is done in complete safety and under the supervision of qualified people. This area is a nature’s park where kids and children can learn through direct experiences the job of people who made the mountain their life. Adults can find activities dedicated to them like the “Ice Tasting Days”. It’s an initiative opened to experts and not ice climbers who can improve their technique thanks to the alpine guides’ help. There is the possibility to try the emotion of ice climbing like leader with the help of a private and qualified alpine guides. An initiative which deserves attention is the one entitled “Discovering Daone Valley with snow rackets”. It’s a non – competitive walk with the snow rackets in order to discover the more hidden places of the Valley and the mountain pastures of the area. Moreover there is an interesting debate concerning the prevention on the snow and it’s entitled “Let’s know the snow to prevent – Let’s learn to behave in case of avalanche” and it’s going to be on Saturday the 16th January from 4 pm to 7 pm. Here people can talk about prevention, avalanche and about the new technologies used by the Alpine Rescue. There is a lot do even if the more important attraction is the competition. Daone is the top World Cup competition and in the 2010 calendar is the second of four competitions. The opening of the circuit was in Kirov, Russia. January 22nd and 23rd athletes is going to climb in Saas Fee in Switzerland and the first week end of February the World Cup is going to end in Busteni, Romania. The more expected athletes are the winners of the last edition of the world competition, that is the Russian Maria Tolokonina who won in 2009 both the speed competition and the difficulty one and Markus Bendler, the one who dominated the difficulty Cup and finally Pavel Gulyaev, the king of the speed speciality. info@webbins.it News Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:52:18 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/78     ICE MASTER WORLD CUP Ice Climbing World Cup (15th-17th January 2010, Valle di Daone)        Wednesday 13th January at 11.00 pm at the "Sala Rombo" of the Trentino Spa, in  Romagnosi Street, 11 in Trento the press conference about the presentation of the ninth edition of the Ice Master World Cup in Daone is taking place. It's the most famous international competition of the world that is taking place from Friday 15th to 17th January 2010. .           info@webbins.it Articles Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:15:21 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/77   It' s just concluded the first of the 4 stages of the ice climbing world cup in Kirow, included in the prestigious UIAA calendar. Now we are waiting for the 2010 Ice Master World Cup edition to see the potentiality of the most important climbers and to see if there will be important changes in the final resultes.                                                                      Final results of Kirow speciality lead  :          Women's Lead      Men's Lead      1. Angelika Rainer, Italy  1. Markus Bendler, Austria  2. Liudmila Badalyan, Russia  2. Alexey Dengin, Russia  3. Anna Gallyamova, Russia  3. Vasily Terekhin, Russia   4.  Hrozova Lucie                                                                                              4. Lyulyukin Ivan, Ucraina                                                                                                                                    Speciality Speed                                                                                          info@webbins.it Press releases Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:29:35 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/76    THE AMUSEMENT IS SURE FOR CHILDREN THANKS TO THE JUNIOR ICE PARK FOR ADULTS THERE ARE THE ICE TASTING DAYS AND GUIDED EXCURSIONS    The 2010 Daone Ice Master World Cup’s news is for children. In fact, the 12th edition reserves an area dedicated to children with lots of activities thought for helping them to learn the mountain and its resources. All of that is done in complete safety and under the supervision of qualified people. This area is a nature’s park where kids and children can learn through direct experiences the job of people who made the mountain their life. All these activities are set on the snow in a frame made of music, entertainments and a big inflatable game. Concerning this area, it would underline the attention of the organizers towards children and towards social meetings’ initiatives and regional development. Activities develop in five stations concerning a particular theme and they offer lots of different aspects of the mountain where you can have fun and learn. Station number one is dedicated to nature and here you can find qualified people working for the Adamello Brenta Natural Park, who make you discover what animals do in winter. Instead, in Station number two children can learn under the supervision of experts of the mountain rescue how dogs come to people’s help and keep them safe. The other three Stations are more dedicated to amusement but always linked to environment; in fact these Stations offer sport activities outdoor. You can find the inflatable – slide “Pirate” on the snow and the refreshment point where people can have a delicious cup of hot chocolate after a day on the snow. The activity of Station number four is to underline, because here children can try to climb on the Junior Ice Wall under the supervision of the Alpine Guides “Friends of Arco”, coordinated by Mauro Girardi, all in complete safety. It’s a chance to get involved in this event, to be in athletes shoes and to feel their the emotions. There are activities for adults, too. In fact, they can try the “Ice Tasting Days”, an initiative to climbers ( experts and inexperts ). They can improve their technique thanks to the alpine guides’ help. They explain all the climb’s secrets and the last news about materials and equipments. If you want to take part to these activities it’s necessary to be entered and it costs you 28,00 Euros. In this sum it’s included a surprise bag, tickets for drinks, alpine guides, equipment and insurance. For people who want more there is the possibility to try the emotion of ice climbing like leader with the help of a private and qualified alpine guides. Another activity is the one entitled “ Discovering Daone Valley with snow rackets”. It’s a non – competitive walk with the snow rackets in order to discover the more hidden places of the Valley and the mountain pastures of the area. Finally there is an angle of reflection and information dedicated to people who use to join the mountain in winter with the snow rackets, snowboard and practice downhill skiing or like off- piste skiing and can find in dangerous situations. It’s a debate entitled: “ Let’s know the snow to prevent – Let’s learn to behave in case of avalanche” and it’s going to be on Saturday the 16th January from 4 pm to 7 pm. Here people can talk about prevention, avalanche and about the new technologies used by the Alpine Rescue. The 2010 edition is going to be full of new initiatives and for the last time the competition is going to be hosted in Pracul, because from the next year there will be a permanent structure.   www.daoneicemaster.it – Ufficio stampa PegasoMedia srl (www.pegasomedia.it)     info@webbins.it News Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:25:46 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/75 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.             info@webbins.it News Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CET Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:06:35 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/74 The junior ice park is the new attraction of the 2010 ice master edition dedicated to children. It's an area with many games and activities which help to learn something more about mountains and natural resourses. A real playground where children can learn throgh laboratories and personal experiences the work of who made of mountain their job. You can find all of that in a gioious frame made of music, clowns on the snow and of a big inflatable game!   Station 1 - Natural Park Adamello Brenta Come to discover what animals do in winter   Station 2 - Mountain Rescue Operation Learn the mountain rescue operation's techniques with dogs   Station 3 - Inflatable Slide "The pirate" Try the emotion of the slide on the snow   Station 4 - Mountain Guide "Friends of Arco" Get a climer for one day on the junior climbing wall   Station 5 - Rest stop ...for everybody there is a delicious cup of hot chocolate info@webbins.it News Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CET Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:08:50 CET http://www.daoneicemaster.it/eventi/dettaglio/73 In January Daone Valley is doubling It’s playing host to the difficulty and race Cup   Daone Ice Master World Cup doubles and it is more and more international. Last days became official the piece of news that the UIAA ( the international Federation, which gathers mountain’s sports ) has assigned the organization of the World Race Cup to the prestigious Ice Climbing Competition. January 16th and 17th 2010 is being two days of competitions particularly full with the typical difficulty Competition, thanks to whom the suggestive Daone Valley has been known worldwide, and the race.   « The piece of news – said Romolo Ghezzi, the organizing Committee’s president – has been welcomed enthusiastically by our team, which is composed of many, precious volunteers from all the Giudicarie Valleys. It will spur our organizing capacities. In fact, as soon as Placido Corradi, the responsible for the volunteers, got the piece of news, he gathered his team starting to plan some variations to the traditional structure, following Maurizio Gallo’s instructions, the team Manager».   The 2010 Ice Master World Cup edition is playing in Pracul on the structure which hosted the last sport-events. Next winter the ice stadium is moving and the new location is being in Nimes, a very close area to Pracul between the Chiese River and the road. Here will be built a permanent structure, where will be organized summer sport-events. Next January edition is paying attention to the developing of new techincs.   « December 9th – told the general Manager Riccardo Milani – is taking place a meeting between the organizing Committee and the UIAA in order to fix the features of the new structure and the new competition’s courses. Recently the ice climbing has been changing, favoring more and more the dry tooling specialty, crossing on resin panels and on granite grips, which are beside the traditional ice strokes. For the occasion the athletes’ representative is explain all the ice climbing equipment innovations. In fact, last year the regulations didn’t allow the use of the back of the climbing iron and somebody disagreed».   Daone’s competition is among the top World Cup Competitions and in 2010 the 2nd of four competitions. The Kirov competitions in Russia is opening the circuit where the race is taking place from January 7th to 9th and the following week end it’s the turn of the Ice Master in Daone. January 22nd and 23rd the ice climbing is taking place in Saas Fee in Switzerland and the first week end of February the competition is ending in Busteni in Romania. The UIAA decided that the European championship under 18 will be competed the same week end of the Ice Master World Cup in Saas Grund and the race in Busteni. The main protagonists is being the last World Cup edition’s winners, that is the Russian Maria Tolokonina, who won in 2009 both the competitions, the Austrian Markus Bendkler, the difficulty Cup’s leader and the Russian Pavel Gulyaev, the king of the race. They are experienced climbers, who have to pay attention to the emerging young, in particular to Angelika Rainer from Merano, who placed second in the last difficulty World Cup’s edition, few points down from Tolokonina. info@webbins.it News Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CET Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:04:47 CET