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All the 'Polartec Challenge' projects for 2001

"patagonia by water", Marcello Cominetti and Lorenzo Nadali's traverse across patagonia, comes to a close

The Banff Mountain Film Festival 2000 and Banff Mountain Book Festival take place from 1-5 November and are preceded by the Banff Mountain Summit

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+.

Sheer7 team climbs first of 7 big walls covered live on the Internet

The project to cross patagonia by Marcello Cominetti and Lorenzo Nadali.

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

Interview with Italian mountaineer Simone Moro before his attempt of the Everest - Lhotse Traverse.

National Geographic’s March issue publishes an account of the first winter ascent of Cerro Torre’s west face by Stephan Siegrist, G. Crouch, D. and T. Ulrich.

Marco Anghileri makes the first winter solo ascent of Solleder, Civetta, Dolomites

The appeal by Argentinean mountaineer Rolando Garibotti to safeguard the future of the Fitz Roy massif.

In January the Pustertal alpinists Christoph Hainz and Kurt Astner scored a real coup by making, in two attempts, the first winter ascent of Via Barbier up the North Face of Cima Grande di Lavaredo. This difficult climb was established in summer 1989 by the Czech brothers Miroslav Coubal and...

Interview with top Italian rock climber and alpinist Pietro Dal Prà.