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Saas Fee 21-22 January 2004. The Austrian Harald Berger and Petra Muller from Switzerland won the World Championship Ice Difficulty, while the Speed event was won by Evgeny Kryvosheytsev from the Ukraine and Natalia Koulikova from Russia

A fortnight ago Mauro Bubu Bole revisited Kurt Astner's cave in Valle di Landro and climbed Mister Big Ben M12

Mauro Bubu Bole and Claudia Colussi have won the 3rd stage of the Alpin Cup, held in Riva di Tures last weekend.

Silvestro Stucchi introduces El Potrero Chico, a rock paradise in Mexico

Anna Torretta and Matteo Giglio al Ouray Ice Festival, Colorado, the most famous Ice Park in the U.S.A.

On 14/01/2004 Simone Moro and Piotr Morawski made the first winter ascent of Shisha Pangma (8027m), climbing without supplementary oxygen and high altitude porters.

PlanetMountain has been voted best climbing site according to Forbes, the world's premier magazine for business and financial news.

Hannes Pfeifhofler and Jenny Lavarda win the second stage of the Alpin Cup 2004/5 in Val Passiria

Anna Torretta talks about the icefalls at Kandersteg, Switzerland

On 18 December Yuri Parimbelli made the first ascent of the super technical Zuper-Mandrake 8c/8c+ at Cornalba, Italy.

Bubu Bole and Silvia Cian have won the first stage of Alpin Cup, held in Campitello di Fassa on 26/27 December.

The six Piolet d'Or 2004 nominees for the most important alpine achievements of the year

During a 40 day trip to Japan Josune Bereziartu and Rikar Otegi redpoint "Logical Progression" 9a at Jo Yama. Bereziartu on-sights "Steroid Performance" at Horai.

At the start of December Giovanni Ongaro, Fabio Palma, Simone Pedeferri and Marco Vago travelled to Kalymnos, Greece, where they made the first ascent of two new multi-pitch routes.

On 8 december Andrea Poli sent "Talk is cheap" 8c, on 12 December "Missing Link" 8b+ at Misja Pec, Slovenia.

On 5 November Ines Papert redpointed Schattenkoenig 8b at Berchtesgaden, Germany.