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06/02/2002 - Trekking
Bike for help in Pakistan Christoph von Toggenburg from Switzerland has finally set off on his “Bike for help” to travel from India to Switzerland by mountain bike.
07/12/2001 - Events
Fournel Ice Meet and Piolet d'Or 2002 The 12th "Rassemblement International des Glacieristes du Fournel" and 11th Piolet d'Or will take place in Argentière - La Bessée from 9-13 January 2002
22/11/2001 - Book-press
‘Above the clouds’, Anatoli Boukreev's diary A new posthumous collection of Anatoli Boukreev’s writings entitled “Above the clouds - The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer” has recently been published.
26/10/2001 - Climbing
Andreas Bindhammer sends KinematiX On Saturday 6 October Andreas Bindhammer finally sends KinematiX in sector Deversè in the Gorges du Loup near Nice, France
20/09/2001 - Interviews
Chris Sharma, the energy of Biographie at Ceuse Three years of trying, walking up to the crag, putting on climbing shoes, lighting incense, chalking up and setting off for the next attempt. Chris Sharma has now realised his dream called Biographie - Realization.
01/09/2001 - Climbing
Akut - Tre Cime di Lavaredo On 13 to 15 August the Italian Kurt Astner made the first free ascent of Akut, his route first climbed in August 2000 on the impressive north face of the Cima Ovest di Lavaredo.
29/08/2001 - Climbing
Larcher and Vigiani on the Marmolada On 12/08/01 Rolando Larcher and Roberto Vigiani redpointed their project of the SW Face of the Marmolada.
25/07/2001 - Alpinism
Ogre, second ascent On 21/07 Urs Stoecker, Iwan Wolf and Thomas Huber made the second ascent of Ogre (7285m), Pakistan, 24 years after the historic first ascent at the hands of Chris Bonington and Doug Scott
20/07/2001 - Competitions
Serre Chevalier and Bouldering World Cup The Bouldering World Cup 2001 takes place on 22-23 July and the prestigious 12th International Master at Serre Chevalier gets underway today
19/07/2001 - Climbing
Chris Sharma climbs Biographie at Ceuse! American Chris Sharma links the first and second section of Biographie at Ceuse in France, widely considered one of the hardest projects in the world, calling it Realization.
16/07/2001 - Competitions
Bouldering World Cup 2001, Chamonix, the results Daniel Andrada and Sandrine Levet win the second stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2001 at Chamonix
12/07/2001 - Competitions
Chamonix,World Cup Difficulty 2001 and Boulder The World Cup Difficulty 2001 gets underway in Chamonix as does the second stage of the World Cup Boulder
15/06/2001 - Climbing
Bernd Zangerl and Dreamtime at Cresciano The Austrian Bernd Zangerl makes the first repeat of Fred Nicole's Dreamtime 8c, Tessino, Switzerland
08/06/2001 - Climbing
Iker Pou's European climbing tour In two months Iker Pou repeats Fred Nicole’s Elfe in Switzerland, and a number or testpieces in the Frankenjura, including Maharadscha Fb 8b, Showdown (8c), Raubritter (8c) and Wolfgang Güllich’s rarely repeated Wallstreet Original (8c/8c+)
07/06/2001 - Alpinism
Jean-Christophe Lafaille and K2 The Frenchman Jean-Christophe Lafaille speaks to planetMountain before his departure for K2
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