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On 19 March Andrea Oberbacher and Francesco Tremolada carried out the first ski descent of the long and much-eyed Conturines south gully. On 15 March Tremolada had also carried the probable first repeat of the south gully on Piz Ciavazes, first skied by Tone Valeruz.

Luca Vuerich has carried out the first ski descent of the South Face of Jof di Montasio 2753m (Julian Alps).

Walter Nones and Simon Kehrer have climbed the Rakhiot Face on Nanga Parbat and have finally managed to contact Base Camp. Tomorrow they will descend via the Buhl route. After 6 days on the wall the hopes that the two will survive are increasing. Their climbing partner Karl Unterkircher died...

On 15 July the South Tyrolean mountaineer Karl Unterkircher fell into a crevasse at circa 6800m on Nanga Parbat’s Rakhiot Face. Unable to descend, his two climbing partners Walter Nones and Simon Kehrer have been forced to continue their ascent. A rescue expedition is departing from Italy at this very...

On 29/05 the Swiss-Italian trio comprised of Giacomelli - Pellissier - Troillet won the XVI Mezzalama, the most challenging ski mountaineering race in the world. The women's event was won by the extraordinary Martinelli - Pedranzini - G.Pellissier, who in doing so also set a new course record.

On 23 March Stefano Imperatori, Renzo Rossini and Germana Maiolatesi set out to make the first descent from the East summit of Corno Grande, Gran Sasso d'Italia, after having completed another "first descent" down the Galluccio crest, Monte Vettore, at the start of the month together with Andreas Brink.

Memorial Fund has been established for Galen Rowell and Barbara Cushman Rowell through the Tides Foundation.

The first ascent of Everest was carried out in 1953. The timeline about the first ski and snowboard descents off the highest mountain in the world.

Interview by Emilio Previtali with 38-year-old Slovenian extreme skier and alpinist Davo Karnicar after his ski down the South Face of Everest.

Jean-Christophe Lafaille and Hans Kammerlander summit K2 on 22 July 2001 via the Cesen route

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+.

Davo Karnicar's Sherpas assert that the body he discovered when skiing down Everest was of Scott Fisher, the Mountain Guide who died on Everest in 1996

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

Bad weather forces Hans Kammerlander to abandon ascent

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