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The Frenchman Jean-Christophe Lafaille speaks to planetMountain before his departure for K2

On 23 May the Frenchman Marco Siffredi, snowboarded down the Norton Couloir on the 8850m North Face of Everest, 8850m

Mario Vielmo summits Cho Oyu. Blanc, Kuntner and Andres depart for Nanga Parbat. Everest and Lhotse summited, last chance for Moro and Urubko

The 49° Film Festival di Trento takes place in Trento from 27 April - 5 May 2001

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 "Aquile" Mountain Guides expedition has reached Base Camp and is beginning preparations for the ascent of Makalu (8475m)

All the 'Polartec Challenge' projects for 2001

The first edition of the Annapurna Mandala Trail took place on 13-26 March 2001

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 "Aquile" Mountain Guides officially present their expedition Makalu 2001 on17 March 2001 at the Auditorium di Primiero

In the Thien Shan mountain range, Simone Moro, Denis Urubko and Maksut Jumayev ascended Mramornayestina (6400m). A second group of alpinists from Kazakistan, Kirghistan and Uzbekistan led by Rinat Khaibullin successully completed the Karli Tau - Marble Wa

A group of Mountain Guides from S. Martino di Castrozza will depart for Makalu on 1/04/2001

The peak fees 2001 published by the governments of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Tibet

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 Pamir Alay is an immense region wedged between the republics of Kirghistan and Tajikistan , dominated by the giant Pic Communism (7495m) and Pic Lenin (7134m), once the highest mountains in the now defunct Soviet Union. By Marco Borghetti, Roberto Invernizzi and Stefano Righetti.