The news

As in 2000, Helly Hansen and the American Alpine Club will assign the Helly Hansen Mountain Adventure Awards 2001 to three small exploratory expeditions

The longest and "highest" sleddog race in Europe, the "Trans Alpes Paul Emile Victor" gets underway

Stephane Husson and Liv Sansoz win fourth stage of IWC 2001 in Chamonix

The Italian mountaineer Simone Moro plans to a six-month winter tour to climb mountains in the Tien Shan, Everest and Lhotse, and in doing so hopes to become the first Italian Snow Leopard

In January 2001 Christian Bindhammer makes the third ascent of "The Big Mother" (8c+) at Erto and climbs "Coxa Distorta" 8b+ FBtr in the Frankenjura

The second round of the Italian Audi-O'neill Snowboard Classic has been postponed to the end of February

The Ukrainian Euvgeni Krivosheitsev and the German Ines Papert win third stage of IXC 2001 in Switzerland

Patrick Bérhault has almost finished his Alpine traverse from Slovenia to France

The Pamir Alay is an immense region wedged between the republics of Kirghistan and Tajikistan , dominated by the giant Pic Communism (7495m) and Pic Lenin (7134m), once the highest mountains in the now defunct Soviet Union. By Marco Borghetti, Roberto Invernizzi and Stefano Righetti.

The Polish expedition led by Krzysztof Wielicki has been fored to abandon its winter attempt of Makalu due to extreme weather conditions

Neil Gresham makes the first ascent of 'The Tempest' M9 at Stob coire nan Lochan, Glencoe

The French duo Stephane Husson and Liv Sansoz win the second stage of IWC in Valle di Daone

The provisional results of second stage of the Ice World Cup 2001 in the Valle di Daone

Photos of the Thomas Huber and Iwan Wolf, the winners of the Piolet d'Or 2001 for Shivas Line on Shivling

Marietta Uhden redpoints her fourth 8b+, Baby-Basher 10+, in Kochel, Germany

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