Pohled na vývoj hodnocení výkonu při lezení na pískovcových skalách České křídové tabule.
Insight into the performance evaluation of sandstone climbing in the Czech Cretaceous

Summary/Abstract: The development of performance evaluation in sandstone climbing is linked to the development ofclimbing on sandstone rocks in the Czech Cretaceous basin and in the German Saxony. This paper describes the development of climbing performance on the Czech sandstone in the context of the givensocio-economic situation and the influence of the Sudetenland German climbers. It provides a shortoverview of the rules of sandstone climbing that were set at the beginning of the 20th century and areapplied with certain modifications until today. This paper follows the development of performanceevaluation in several different sandstone areas, pinpoints the milestones of sandstone climbing andexplains the performance stagnation in sandstone climbing in the postwar period and further until1990. It compares the performance evaluation on different kinds of stone taking into consideration thelocal particularities of the evaluation and draws the attention to its high subjectivity of the evaluation.

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