The news

Banff Film Festival World Tour - the dates and films

Steve McClure puts up a new 8b boulder problem at Stanage, England

Will Gadd and Kim Csismazia win Ice Boulder in Cortina, Italy

Will Gadd on tour and in form in Europe - M9

Courchevel structure collapses - competition first suspended, then halted altogether.

Mauro Bole discards leashes and repeats X-files, M10.

Marco Anghileri makes the first winter solo ascent of Solleder, Civetta, Dolomites

The Canadian company receives two of the 20 APEX awards for the best products manufactured in Polartec®.

The second stage in this year's Ice World Cup will take place in Courchevel from the 23 - 25 January.

François Lombard and Irina Ryzhenkova win first stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup 2000 in Austria.

Interview with Bernardino Dino Lagni, Climbing World Champion 1999.

The appeal by Argentinean mountaineer Rolando Garibotti to safeguard the future of the Fitz Roy massif.

The 1999 Piolet d'or was awarded to the Frenchmen Lionel Daudet and Sebastien Foissac for their new route on Burkett Needle, Alaska.

The Italian Mauro Bole Bubu confirms his reputation as one of the best ice climbers in the world by repeating Stevie Haston’s X-Files in Lillaz, Val di Cogne, Italy, as well as Welcome to the Machine M10 in Valsavarenche and then onsighting Lionel Daudet’s Quartier Nors M10.

The first stage in the first ever Ice Climbing World Cup circuit will take place in Pilztal, Austria on the 14 -16 January 2000.

Interview with Cristian Brenna, one of the world's most important sports climbers.