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01/10/2014 - Alpinism
Greenland 2014 and Baffin island: climbing at Gibbs Fjord by Favresse, Ditto and Villanueva The final report by Nicolas Favresse about the Greenland 2014 expedition, carried out together with Olivier Favresse, Ben Ditto and Sean Villanueva. This final update includes the exploration at Gibbs Fjord, Baffin Island
19/09/2014 - Alpinism
International Mountain Summit: a meeting and a discussion about alpinism, doping, culture and the environment At the International Mountain Summit 2014, that will take place in Brixen, Italy, from 16 - 21 October there are two important days organised by the Master in Mountain Medicine and his director Dott. Luigi Festi. The first, on 17...
08/07/2014 - Alpinism
Cordillera Huayhuash, alpinism in Peru for Tito Arosio, Saro Costa and Luca Vallata. In June 2014 the three young Italian alpinists Tito Arosio, Saro Costa and Luca Vallata visited the Cordillera Huayhuash in Perù where they made the first ascent of "El malefico Sefkow", a new route up the West Face of Monte...
20/06/2014 - Trekking
XVI National Week of hiking Not only hiking but also many cultural events between Cadore and Ampezzo
06/06/2014 - Climbing
Tobias Wolf and Thomas Hering climb hard in Yosemite German climbers Tobias Wolf and Thomas Hering have made rare repeats of two difficult routes on El Capitan in Yosemite: The Shaft (Muir Wall free variation) and El Nino.
18/04/2014 - Alpinism
Tragic Everest avalanche, numerous victims In the early hours of this morning an avalanche swept down the flanks of Everest on the Nepalese side of the mountain. At least six Sherpa have died, while numerous other climbers are reported missing.
14/04/2014 - Competitions
Tour du Grand Paradis: in the shadow of Gran Paradiso On Sunday 13 April 2014 Michele Boscacci & Matteo Eydallin and Francesca Martinelli & Roberta Pedranzini won the VI Tour du Grand Paradis - Trofeo Renato Chabod. The report by Simonetta Radice.
04/02/2014 - Alpinism
In defence of alpinism, the speech by Bernard Amy to the Italian Academic alpine club The speech by well known French mountaineer and writer Bernard Amy, on the occasion of his appointment as an honorary member of the Italian Academic alpine club, Turin, 26 October 2013.
30/01/2014 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Let's smile again when saying freeride. By Giulio Caresio Using the Courmayeur stage of the Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face as a pretext, Giulio Caresio explores the freeride world by interviewing Nicolas Hale-Woods.
18/10/2013 - Alpinism
Greenland, new big walls climbed by small British expedition A small British expedition comprised of Tom Codrington, Jacob Cook, Ian Faulkner and Peter Hill and the skippers Angela Lilienthal and Clive Woodman have climbed a series of new routes close to Uummannaq, Greenland.
08/10/2013 - Trekking
Google maps Switzerland's paths Google and the Swiss alpine club (CAS) have launched a project to map a series of paths in Switzerland with the Google Trekker technology.
20/09/2013 - Climbing
Martina Mali bouldering at Hueco Tanks The video of Slovenian climber Martina Mali sending the boulder problem Rumble in the Jungle at Hueco Tanks, USA.
16/09/2013 - Interviews
Angela Eiter, 10 years as the champion of climbing competitions Interview with Angela Eiter, the queen of climbing competitions who recently bid her official farewell to the world of competitions.
06/06/2013 - Climbing
Sean Villanueva and Nicolas Favresse free climbs in Valle dell'Orco In Valle dell'Orco, Italy, Sean Villanueva has carried out the first free ascent of Legittima visione, while Nicolas Favresse has freed Schittingbull.
03/05/2013 - Competitions
XIX Mezzalama Trophy, Saturday 4 May live on Planetmountain.com Mezzalama Trophy gets underway on Saturday 4 May, the classic ski mountaineering competition from Breuil-Cervinia to Gressoney across the slopes of Monte Rosa. The start has been put forward to 5:00am.
22/03/2013 - Alpinism
2nd International Master Course in Mountain Medicine The second edition of the International Master Course in Mountain Medicine will start on May 2013 to end on June 2014 and will be held at the Italian Insubria University in collaboration with the University of Turin and the Bolzano...
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