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The Climbing World Cup 2004 Difficulty, Bouldering and Speed commence in less than six weeks time.

On 17/01 Simone Moro and Piotr Morawski aborted their attempt at 7700m of make the first winter ascent of Shisha Pangma (8027m).

For the fifth year running the Austrian non-profit organisation "Snowboarders for Safety" has organised a series of free snow & avalanche awareness camps throughout the 2003/04 winter season

François Auclair and Muriel Sarkany win the ninth stage of the World Cup Difficulty 2003, but overall victory goes to Alexandre Chabot and Sarkany

Sandrine Levet and Julian Ramón Puigblanque win the sixth stage of the World Cup Difficulty 2003 in Prague

Angela Eiter and Alexandre Chabot win the Rock Master 2003. Mauro Calibani and Olga Bibik win the Sint Roc bouldering event

On 31/08 the Nepalese Sherpa Daichhiri won the 150 km Mont Blanc marathon.

Muriel Sarkany and Alexandre Chabot win the World Cup Difficulty in Lecco

news from Everest base Camp in the 2003 pre-monsson season. Fabio Meraldi in 24 hour summit attempt

The Winter Polish K2 Expedition has been called off without a successful summit but with all members, including Denis Urubko, Marcin Kaczkan and Krzysztof Wielicki, are safely back in Base Camp.

The Frenchman Sebastien Foissac and the Italian Attilio Munari have recently qualified to become international Ice World Cup routesetters. Together with the three new judges Irina Ryzhenkova (RUS), Andrej and Jasna Pacjak (SLO) they completed a four-day course in Italy's Valle di Daone.

From 8 — 12 January 2002 the French Parc National des Ecrins will host the Fournel Ice Climbing Event for 800 ice climbers. The nominees for the Piolet D'Or 2002 will be presented, as will the winning films of the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

The first international judges and routesetter course for ice cliimbing will be held in Italy's Valle di Daone from 16 to 22 December 2002.

Alexandre Chabot and Muriel Sarkany win the fifth stage of the World Cup Difficulty 2002 in Singapore

Bruno Brunod and Gloriana Pellissier won the Ville d’Aoste Skyrace on Sunday 21 July

Alexandre Chabot and Chloè Minoret win the European Championship 2002 in Chamonix