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The second edition of the international MonteRosaSkiRider takes place in Valle di Gressoney, Valle d’Aosta on 16-17/04/2004

Liv Sansoz, Arnaud petit, François petit and Stephanie Bodet bouldering in Hueco, USA

UIAA Worldcup Birmingham (GBR) 2004. 02-04 April 2004. Sandrine Levet and Daniel Dulac win the first stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2004.

Ramón Julián Puigblanque has made the first ascent of "Estado crítico", 9a at Siurana, Spain,

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

The Climbing World Cup 2004 Difficulty, Bouldering and Speed commence in less than six weeks time.

Evgenyy Kryvosheytsev (UKR) and Kirsten Buchmann (GER) have won the Ice-extreme boulder at Solcava (Slovenia).

On 24/01/2004 Ines Papert and Harald Berger won the Ice climbing World Championship 2004. Alexandre Matveev and Natalia Koulikova won the Speed event.

The Ice World Championships 2004 will be held in Saas Fee, Switzerland, from 23-25/01/2004

The Nova Levante-Welschnofen local council has approved the transformation of 10000 mq of "alpine meadows and woods" to “tourist and camping area." for the develpment of a camping ground above Lake Carezza in teh Dolomites.

The Austrian Ice Climbing Championship and 4th International Carinthian and East Tyrolean Championship took place in Kotschach at the start of January.

The 14th international Ice Climbing Event 2004 takes place in Argentière, Fournel from 7-11 January 2004.

Sandrine Levet wins both the Difficulty and Bouldering events and wins Bouldering World Cup 2003. Jerome Meyer wins men's event and World Cup. Patxi Usobiaga wins men's Difficulty. World Cup 2003 won by Alexandre Chabot and Muriel Sarkany.in Edinburgh

On 20 November Cristian Brenna made the first repeat of “Is not always Pasqua”, Italy's hardest trad route, first climbed by Mauro Calibani in October 2002, and graded E9 7a.

From 6 - 27 October 2003 the Italian climbers Rolando Larcher, Michele Paissan and Maurizio Oviglia established Sul filo della notte (7c+ max; 7b obl) in the Taghia gorge, High Atlas, Morocco.

The Other Final Takes Grand Prize at Banff Mountain Film Festival. Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival wins Book Festival, while Fritz Mueller’s Autumn Sunset in the Heart of Tombstone wins Mountain Photography Competition