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01/03/2005 - Interviews
Steve House: interview after Piolet d'Or 2004 People's Choice Award Interview with the American mountaineer who received the nomination for the Piolet d'Or 2004 for his solo ascent of K7. This climb recieved the People's Choice Award as the most important ascent of the year.
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.
28/09/2004 - Interviews
Yvon Chouinard, Time's up In an open letter Yvon Chouinard, mountaineer, surfer, fly fisherman and founder of "Patagonia", the famous American outdoor clothing company explains how urgent and pressing the envirnmental issue is.
25/01/2004 - Alpinism
Nanga Parbat 1970. Reinhold Messner told the truth Günther Messner really did perish during the descent of the Nanga Parbat Diamir Face, as his brother Reinhold has always sustained.
12/11/2003 - Climbing
Anna Torretta and the Zodiac In October 2003 Anna Torretta climbed the Zodica, El Capitan, Yosemite in 6 days and 5 nights and met the Huber brothers making the first free ascent.
02/10/2002 - Interviews
Lynn Hill Interview with Lynn Hill, a world-class sport climbing symbol. Her legendary one-day free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in 1994 Yosemite and her entire vertical world as seen by Lynn herself
28/03/2002 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Everest climbing and skiing history 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.
28/03/2002 - Interviews
Davo Karnicar, skiing down The Ultimate Ride on Everest Interview by Emilio Previtali with 38-year-old Slovenian extreme skier and alpinist Davo Karnicar after his ski down the South Face of Everest.
10/02/2002 - Alpinism
Pakistan Mountaineering Fees cut 50% for 2002 Pakistan cuts mountaineering fees by 50% in an attempt to revitalise the tourism crisis for 2002
20/01/2002 - Competitions
Sdobnikova and Dulac win in Italy Daniel Dulac and Ksenia Sdobnikova win the second stage of the IWC 2002 in Valle di Daone.
21/01/2001 - Competitions
Husson and Sansoz win 2nd stage of IWC 2001 in Valle Daone The French duo Stephane Husson and Liv Sansoz win the second stage of IWC in Valle di Daone
19/11/2000 - Competitions
Hirayama and Sansoz win in Kranj and conquer the World Cup Difficulty 2000 Yuji Hirayama and Liv Sansoz win the fifth leg at Kranj and in doing so conquer the World Cup Difficulty 2000
18/07/2000 - Climbing
New boulder area in the Dolomites 113 boulder problems from Fb 3 to Fb 8a at Passo Sella, Northern Italy
09/11/1999 - Alpinism
Tomaz Humar's Odyssey on the South Face of Dhaulagiri Slovenian alpinist Tomaz Humar has made a remarkable solo ascent up the South Face of Dhaulagiri
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