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29/01/2003 - Alpinism
Kurt Astner flashes Mission Impossible in Valsavarenche On 27 January Kurt Astner flashed Mauro Bubu Bole's Mission Impossible next to the Haston cave, Valsavarenche, Va di Cogne, Italy.

26/01/2003 - Competitions
Papert and Berger win IWC 2003 Ines Papert and Harald Berger win the third stage of the ice World Cup 2003 in Saas Fee and the fourth Ice World Cup 2003

18/01/2003 - Competitions
Papert and Berger provisional leaders in Daone Ines Papert and Harald Berger are the provisional leaders of the Ice World Cup second stage in Valle Daone 2003

17/01/2003 - Competitions
Ice master Valle di Daone - Open results No great surprises after the Open in the Ice master Valle di Daone

16/01/2003 - Competitions
Countdown to the Ice Master Valle di Daone Valle di Daone, here we go! The second stage of the IWC 2003 gets underway tomorrow with the Open, comprised of 50 male athletes and 21 female athletes.

12/01/2003 - Competitions
IWC Pitztal, Bychkov and Papert win The Russian Dmitry Bychkov and the German Ines Papert win the first stage of the Ice World Cup 2003 in Pitztal, Austria

09/01/2003 - Competitions
Ice Master Valle di Daone - it's freezing! Valle di Daone: it's freezing! The intense cold that has gripped Italy has sped up work at the Ice Climbing Stadium in Valle di Daone and the structure is now completely frozen in ice.

30/12/2002 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Avalanche danger in the Alps Fresh snowfall followed by strong winds and a sudden rise in temperature have led to numerous avalanches discharging throughout the Alps.

27/12/2002 - Competitions
New IWC routesetters and judges 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.

25/12/2002 - Events
Fournel Ice Climbing Event and Piolet d'Or 2003 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.

22/12/2002 - Alpinism
Bubu online Italian Mauro Bubu Bole is now online with his personal www.climbubu.com

20/12/2002 - Competitions
Bouldering meet in Bishop for American Access Fund Over 400 climbers gathered in Bishop, California at the start of December in a highly successful three-day event designed to raise funds for the American Access Fund.

17/12/2002 - Climbing
Neil Gresham repeats Equilibrium E10 7a Last week the British climber Neil Gresham made an impressive second ascent of Neil Bentley's gritstone Equilibrium, E10 7a.

10/12/2002 - Competitions
Snowboard Classic, Cortina, the results Marco Huser and Claudia Haesurmann win Snowboardcross, Barbara Sponsale and Andreas Prommegger win the Giant Slalom of the first stage of the Tour della Gazzetta Snowboard Classic.

09/12/2002 - Events
Banff Mountain Festival 2002 winners The Second Step wins the Banff Mountain Film Festival 2002. The Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize was awarded to The Evidence of Things Not Seen, while the Photography Competition was won by James Delano

02/12/2002 - Competitions
Ice World Cup 2003 The Ice World Cup 2003 will be comprised of only three stages, (Pitztal, Val Daone and Saas Fee) while the Ice World Championship 2003 will take place in Kirov in March
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