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On 26 March the Italian Silvio Mondinelli left Italy together with his climbing partner Mario Merelli to climb Makalu via the normal route.

The Himalaya veterans Silvio Mondinelli and Mario Merelli departed for Dhaulagiri on 9 September. A strong Slovenian expedition heads for Cho Oyu

On 3 August the Italia Emilio Previtali snowboarded off the summit of Pik Lenin 7134 m, via a new line directly down the North Face.

On 30 June Abele Blanc, Christian Kuntner and Stefan Andres reached the summit of Nanga Parbat (8125m).

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

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

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

Bad weather affects most Himalayan expeditions

News about Everest expeditions and Everest Base Camp

Interview with Hans Kammerlander, one of the driving forces in the mountaineering world, before his departure for K2.

Interview with Italian mountaineer Simone Moro before his attempt of the Everest - Lhotse Traverse.

Slovenian alpinist Tomaz Humar has made a remarkable solo ascent up the South Face of Dhaulagiri

On the 26th of October 1998, after fifteen days on El Capitan, the 29 year-old Slovenian Tomaz Humar completed Reticent Wall (VI, 5.9, A5 850m). Humar is well-known for his successes in the Himalayas, where in 1997 he ascended Nuptse in alpine style together with Janiz Jeglic, and Ama Dablam...