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The second Ice World Cup gets underway in Chamonix on 28 December 2000

The best young European climbers will compete in the second stage of the European Youth Cup in Aprica, Italy next weekend

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+.

Davo Karnicar's Sherpas assert that the body he discovered when skiing down Everest was of Scott Fisher, the mountain Guide who died on Everest in 1996

Italian expedition summits Pumori and collects snow samples for scientific research

From November to December 2000 the British mountaineer Paul Pritchard will raise funds for people with head injuries on his website www.paulpritchard.com

Cristoph Hainz wins for sixth year running ahead of Leonardo Di Marino and Massimo Bal

Four new routes on Ciarforin, Gran Paradiso, Italy.

On 7 October the Slovenian Davo Karnicar made the first uninterrupted ski descent of the South Face of Everest

Despite terrible conditions the French mountain Guide manages to summit Cho Oyu (8201m), sixth highest mountain on earth

French Alexandre Chabot and German Katrin Sedlmayer crowned European Champions in Munich Sunday afternoon

The 5th European Championship in Munich. Sarkany defends title, Vickers resigned from competition circuit

The Italian climbs two 8c's third go between one competition and the next

French Alexandre Chabot and Liv Sansoz win the second stage at Lecco in front of enthusiastic crowd

Monsoon impedes progress. Cho Oyu most crowded, eleven expeditions on Shisha Pangma, just one mountaineer on Everest

On Mount Nalumasortoq above the Tasermiut Fjord in Southern Greenland Jerome Arpin, Mario Manica and Francesco Vaudo made the first ascent of Non c'è due senza tre, a new big wall climb up the mountain's Third Pillar. Report by Antonella...