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07/12/2007 - Events
Krakow Mountain Festival 2007 The 5th Krakow Mountain Festival will take place on 5 - 9 December and will star Steph Davis, Mick Fowler and Dean Potter.
06/03/2007 - Book-press
American Alpine Journal online The American Alpine Journal is available online as of today.
02/01/2007 - Climbing
Climbing threatened at Austria's Dschungelbuch The future of one of Austria's oldest and most important crags, the Dschungelbuch just outside of Innsbruck, is currently on the line as 150,000 cubic meters of rock may be given free for quarrying by the local town council.
12/07/2006 - Environment
Eiger east face poised to collapse Two million cubic meters of the Eiger's East Face are poised to crash down into the valley hundreds of meters below due to a 300m horizontal fissure.
16/05/2006 - Climbing
Sharma and Tribout Kalymnos Odyssey Chris Sharma frees Lucky Lucka extension 8c at Odyssey, Kalymnos second go and repeats Draconian Devil 8b+, together with JB Tribout.
12/04/2006 - Climbing
Dave MacLeod frees Rhapsody E11 7a at Dumbarton Rock in Scotland Scottish Dave MacLeod has climbed the direct finish to Requiem at Dumbarton Rock, Scotland, calling the climb Rhapsody and grading the route E11 7a. This makes it a strong contender for one of the hardest trad pitches in the world.
17/03/2006 - Alpinism
Prezelj's Patagonian ascents with Koch and Potter Slovenian alpinist Marko Prezelj has returned from a five week trip to Patagonia where, dodging typical unstable weather, he made two fast ascents together with the Americans Stephen Koch and Dean Potter, one on Cerro Torre and one on Torre Standhardt.
28/09/2005 - Climbing
Christian Bindhammer repeats Kinematix 9a Christian Bindhammer has repeated Kinematix 9a, Gorges du Loup, France.
18/08/2005 - Alpinism
Nanga Parbat: the body of Günther Messner found The body of Günther Messner has been found on Nanga Parbat. He died 35 years ago.
06/07/2005 - Competitions
Rakhmetov and Shalagina Bouldering World Champions Salavat Rakhmetov and Olha Shalagina win the Bouldering World Championships 2005 in Munich.
05/07/2005 - Competitions
Bouldering World Championships - the finalists The finalists for the Bouldering World Championships 2005 held in Munich Germany
04/07/2005 - Competitions
Tomas Mrazek and Angela Eiter World Champions On 02/06/05 Tomas Mrazek from the Czech Republic and and Angela Eiter from Austria won the World Championships Lead 2005 held in Munich, Germany.
17/03/2005 - Book-press
Alpinist wins design award The American Alpinist Magazine announced today that it has received Print Magazine’s 2004 Regional Design Award for the cover of Alpinist 6
14/01/2005 - Events
Forbes votes PlanetMountain best climbing site PlanetMountain has been voted best climbing site according to Forbes, the world's premier magazine for business and financial news.
20/12/2004 - Events
PlanetMountain at University! On Tuesday 14 December at the Italian University of Padua the websites Planet Mountain and La Sportiva were the protagonists of a university thesis entitled "Web Marketing and community management in mountain products: La Sportiva and PlanetMountain.com"
31/05/2004 - Competitions
Chabot and Eiter win World Cup Difficulty in Imst Alexander Chabot and Angela Eiter won the second stage of the World Cup Difficulty 2004 held in Imst, last weekend.
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