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S. Moro and D. Urubko attempting the Lhotse (8516m) - Everest (8850m) traverese have finished acclimatising by climbing to the South Col. Conditions on Lhotse are not good yet

The fifteen year-old Sherpa Temba Tcheri will attempt to become the youngest person to climb Everest. At Makalu the "Aquila" install ABC while various team members are evacuated due to High Altitude Sickness

Alexander Huber and Thomas Huber free climb Golden Gate in 2000 on El Capitan, Yosemite, USA.

All the 'Polartec Challenge' projects for 2001

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

Interview with Jean-Christophe Lafaille after his solo ascent of the West Face of the Drus, Mont Blanc

The "Aquile" Mountain Guides officially present their expedition Makalu 2001 on17 March 2001 at the Auditorium di Primiero

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 Italian mountaineer Simone Moro plans to a six-month winter tour to climb mountains in the Tien Shan, Everest and Lhotse, and in doing so hopes to become the first Italian Snow Leopard

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.

Thomas Huber and Iwan Wolf awarded prestigious Piolet d'Or 2001 by Montagnes Magazine for Shivas Line on Shivling

The successful Italian Cho Oyu expedition “Roma 2000” present a insightful balance of the post-monsoon season of Cho Oyu

The Banff Mountain Film Festival 2000 and Banff Mountain Book Festival take place from 1-5 November and are preceded by the Banff Mountain summit

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