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From 12 -14/08/2004 Silvestro Stucchi, Elena Davila, Anna Lazzarini and Enea Colnago made the first ascent of "Hasta la vista David" (VI+, A1), a new 750m route up the SW Face of Brakk Zang (Baltistan-Pakistan).

On 29/07/2004 Patxi Usobiaga made the third ascent of Realization / Biographie, 9a+ at Céüse.

At 9.45 local time on 28 July 2004, Mario Lacedelli and Luciano Zardini reached the summit of K2, 8611m. They reached the top together with the Swiss Mountain Guide Michel Andre Wirdt, a Sherpa and and the Pakistani high altitude porter Mohamed Sanap Akam.

On 27 July 2004 at 7.15 local time Mario Dibona, Renato Sottsass, Marco Da Pozzo and Renzo Benedetti reached the summit of K2, 8611m. They reached the top of the second highest mountain in the world together with Mingma Sherpa and Thilen Sherpa.

At 13,30 CET Silvio Mondinelli and Karl Unterchirker reached the summit of K2, followed by Walter Nones, Michele Compagnoni and Ugo Giacomelli at 14.15 (17.15 local time). At roughly 17.50 (local time) four members of the Spanish "Al filo de lo imposible” expedition, Edurne Pasaban, Juanito Oiarzabal, Juan Vallejo...

B.A.T. Basic Absurd Technology, repeated by Anna Torretta and Erika Morandi on the Caporal, Valle dell'Orco, Italy

On Wednesday 30 June sixteen-year-old Simone Rive sent Francesca 8a+ at Mandello, N. Italy.

Ramon Julien Puigblanque from Spain and Bettina Schopf from Austria are the new European Champions. The two held off strong competition, in the form of Alexandre Chabot and Francois Auclair, and Natalija Gross and Katharina Saurvein, second and third respectively

At Lecco the Frenchman wins the European Bouldering Championship 2004, ahead of Andrew Earl from Great Britain and Gabriele Moroni from Italy.

Olga Bibik beats Anna Stöhr and Corinne Theroux to win the European Bouldering Championship 2004

The second stage of the Italian Bouldering Cup 2004 took place at Gandino last weekend, as was won by Stefania De Grandi and Michele Caminati.

On 16/05 Nives Meroi, Romano Benet and Luca Vuerich summite Lhotse (8516m). Nives Meroi is now the most successful living female mountaineer.

On 7-9 May the Lombardy Mountain guides have organised an intenational bouldering meet in the Val di Mello, Northern Italy.

On 24/04/2004 Stefania Daniele sent "Do it" 8a+at the Grotta dell'Arenauta, Sperlonga.

Kilian Fischhuber and Sandrine Levet have won the second stage of the bouldering World Cup 2004, held in Erlangen, Germany, last weekend.

The Fédération Française de la Montagne et de l'Escalade awarded the climbers Benoist-Glairon-Rappaz and Bérhault-Magnin for their outstandiing ascents in 2003