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The international women’s meet 'Rendez-Vous Hautes Montagne' will take place in Sardinia from 2-9 September 2001

The "Aquile" Mountain Guides expedition has reached Base camp and is beginning preparations for the ascent of Makalu (8475m)

The spring 2001 himalayan season is about to begin and the majority of expeditions are heading, once again, to Mt. Everest

The two-month 'Pig Brothers Tour' of America by François Legrand and Yuji Hirayama gets underway to climb the hardest routes in the States

In the Thien Shan mountain range, Simone Moro, Denis Urubko and Maksut Jumayev ascended Mramornayestina (6400m). A second group of alpinists from Kazakistan, Kirghistan and Uzbekistan led by Rinat Khaibullin successully completed the Karli Tau - Marble Wa

A group of Mountain Guides from S. Martino di Castrozza will depart for Makalu on 1/04/2001

The second round of the Italian Audi-O'neill Snowboard Classic has been postponed to the end of February

The Pamir Alay is an immense region wedged between the republics of Kirghistan and Tajikistan , dominated by the giant Pic Communism (7495m) and Pic Lenin (7134m), once the highest mountains in the now defunct Soviet Union. By Marco Borghetti, Roberto Invernizzi and Stefano Righetti.

The Polish expedition led by Krzysztof Wielicki has been fored to abandon its winter attempt of Makalu due to extreme weather conditions

Alp Millennium 3 Experimenta celebrates this year's outstanding contemporary mountain photography

On 23/08/2000 the expedition comprised of S. Glowacz, K. Albert, H. Hember and G. Heidorn established 'Odyssey 2000' on the unclimbed Polar Bear Spire on Canada's Baffin Island

On the East Face of La Esfinge (5325m) in the Paron Valley, Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Mauro Bole, Silvo Karo and photographer Boris Strmsek have established Cruz del Sur, an 800m big wall climb graded 7c+.

Italian expedition summits Pumori and collects snow samples for scientific research

On 7 October the Slovenian Davo Karnicar made the first uninterrupted ski descent of the South Face of Everest

multi-pitch sport climbing in the Gennargentu area of Sardinia: Biddiriscottai, Aguglia di Goloritzè, Regno dei Cieli, Punta Giradili.

Monsoon impedes progress. Cho Oyu most crowded, eleven expeditions on Shisha Pangma, just one mountaineer on Everest