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The film Directissima directed by Louis Rousseau the shows the areas Saguenay (Cap Trinité) and Charlevoix (Mont du Gros Bras) and the beauty of winter mountaineering in quebec, Canada.

On 17 March 2016 the alpinists Carl Darveau and Jean-François Girard have made the first ascent of Aller Simple pour Mars, a difficult new mixed climb up the Pic de l’Aurore face at Percé, Canada graded M7+ WI7- 190m.

In February 2016 Jean-Philippe Belanger, Jas Fauteux, Maarten van Haeren, Charles Roberge and Pete Takeda established six new ice climbs at the Le mur de 51 wall in the remote Nipissis area in quebec, Canada.

On 29/09/2014 Swedish skier Andreas Fransson and Canadian skier JP Auclair were killed by an avalanche on Monte San Lorenzo in Patagonia, on the border between Chile and Argentina. Both were considered two of the world's premier skiers.

Jean-François Girard introduces the dry tooling crag St Alban, Québec, Canada.

On May 12 Jean-Pierre Ouellet redpointed La Zébrée 8b+ at Mont-King, Canada, placing all the gear except the first piece on lead.

Evgeny Kryvosheytsev has repeated The Game M13+, Cineplex Cave, Canada

The eigth edition of the Festiglass du quebec took place in Canada from 18-20 February 2005. The individual competition was won by Evgeny Kryvosheytsev.

Ice meeting for the 2004/2005 season in Arco, Italy, Argentière la Bessée (Fournel), France, st its annual ice-fall meeting:Kandersteg, Switzerland and Festiglace, quebec, Canada

In mid-October Jean-François Beaulieu from Canada pinkpointed an old aid project, La Zébrée at Mont-King, Val David, Québec, grading it 8b+

Anna Torretta and Stephane Husson win the 6th Festiglace 20003 The North Face of quebec in Canada

The first ever quebec Cup took place in Canada this January and February and was won by Martin Lajoie and Myriam St-Louis

The Ice World Cup 2003 will be comprised of only three stages, (Pitztal, Val Daone and Saas Fee) while the Ice World Championship 2003 will take place in Kirov in March

Harald Berger, Dimitri Bytchkov and Ksenia Sdobnikova win the IWC 2002 after final round in quebec, won by Ines Papert and Dimitri Bytchkov.

The third round of the Ice World Cup at Saas-Fee goes to Dimitri Bytchkov and Ines Papert.

The third IWC 2002 starts in Kirov in January and continues in Pitztal, Valle di Daone, Saas Fee to finish in quebec