The news

05/12/2001 - Climbing
Alippi and Sturman make 8c tremble Alippi and Sturman redpoint Invidia, Positron and Tolk is chep, all 8c

04/12/2001 - Events
XX Olympic Winter Games - Turin 2006 Just 1529 days left to the start of the XX Olympic Winter Games, to be held in Turin 2006.

03/12/2001 - Competitions
Italian Bouldering Championship 2001 The Italian Bouldering Championship 2001 took place in Campitello di Fassa last weekend, and was won by Riccardo Scarian and Giulia Giammarco.

30/11/2001 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Skiing Dolomites - first lifts open Winter 2002 starts this weekend with the first lifts opening in the Dolomites

28/11/2001 - Events
"Salathe" wins at "Vila de Torelló" The 19th International Festival of Mountain Films "Vila de Torelló" came to a close last Saturday with the Grand Prize being awarded to 'Salathe'.

27/11/2001 - Competitions
4th Omniplanet Snowboard Classic The 4th Omniplanet Snowboard Classic gets underway in Valmalenco on 8-9 December.

22/11/2001 - Book-press
‘Above the clouds’, Anatoli Boukreev's diary A new posthumous collection of Anatoli Boukreev’s writings entitled “Above the clouds - The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer” has recently been published.

22/11/2001 - Trekking
Bike for help from India to Switzerland Christoph von Toggenburg’s journey from India to Switzerland to raise funds for leprosy begins

21/11/2001 - Competitions
Ice World Cup 2002 The third IWC 2002 starts in Kirov in January and continues in Pitztal, Valle di Daone, Saas Fee to finish in Quebec

19/11/2001 - Competitions
Cufar and Mrazek win in Kranj, overall title to Sarkany Martina Cufar and Tomaz Mrazek win in Kranj, but overall World Cup Difficulty 2001title to Muriel Sarkany and Alexandre Chabot

15/11/2001 - Events
26th Banff Mountain Film Festival, the winners Yellowstone — America's Sacred Wilderness takes Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival 2001

14/11/2001 - Climbing
El Gigante big wall, Mexico Last week Stefan Glowacz, Kurt Albert, Holger Heuber, Gunda Frühwald and the photographer Klaus Fengler set off to Mexico to climb the 1000m big wall El Gigante

12/11/2001 - Climbing
Alexander Huber finds and frees El Corazon on El Capitan The German Alexander Huber finds and frees El Corazon 5.13b on El Capitan, Yosemite, America

10/11/2001 - Interviews
Alessandro Lamberti repeats Hugh at Eaux Claires The 37-year-old Italian Alessandro Jolly Lamberti has made the long-awaited first repeat of Fred Rouhling’s 20m testpiece, situated in the Vallée des Eaux Claires, France

08/11/2001 - Climbing
Noia 8c+ for Alberto Gnerro The Italian Albeto Gnerro sends Noia 8c+ at Andonno

07/11/2001 - Alpinism
El Cap, Tempest repeated Valerio Folco, Tom McMillan and Bruce Bindner make the third ascent of El Capitan's Tempest (A4 R)
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