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On Monday 16 September Mauro Bole managed to repeat Alexander Huber's Bellavista on the Cima Ovest, Lavaredo in two steps, first the upper section, then the lower.

For more than 10 days the French snowboarder and mountaineer Marco Siffredi has been reported missing from the north face of Everest.

Mario Curnis and Simone Moro reach the summit of Everest on 24 May

At 12.00 (Nepal time) the Italians Franco Nicolini, Mirco Mezzanotte and Simone Moro reached the summit of the sixth highest mountain in the world.

Simone Moro and an italian expedition are preparing for Cho Oyu, before moving on to attempt Everest

Jean-Christophe Lafaille makes the first winter solo ascent of Pèlerinagein preparation for his eigthth 8000m peak, Annapurna, Himalaya

The winners of the APEX Award 2002 were presented at Munich’s ispo a fortnight ago.

The Russian mountaineer was awarded the prestigious prize for his solo first-ascent of the north face of Meru Central Peak (6310m), located in India’s Garwhal.

The 12th "Rassemblement International des Glacieristes du Fournel" and 11th Piolet d'Or will take place in Argentière - La Bessée from 9-13 January 2002

At the end of August 2001 the Germans Robert Jasper and Rainer Treppte climbed a major new route on the north face of the Matterhorn (4474m).

On 13 to 15 August the Italian Kurt Astner made the first free ascent of Akut, his route first climbed in August 2000 on the impressive north face of the Cima Ovest di Lavaredo.

On 3 August the Italia Emilio Previtali snowboarded off the summit of Pik Lenin 7134 m, via a new line directly down the north face.

On Thursday 14 June 2001 the Californian climber Lynn Hill will hold a talk at Milan's Auditorium Don Bosco

On 23 May the Frenchman Marco Siffredi, snowboarded down the Norton Couloir on the 8850m North Face of Everest, 8850m

On 23/05 Juanito Oyarzabal and Ivan Vallejo of the TVE Expedition reached the summit of Everest via the north face, as did Sergio Mingute and the 15 year old Sherpa Temba Tscheri; Bertrand Roche paraglides off the summit using a tandem paraglider

After his ascent of Lhotse Denis Urubko is now set to complete the traverse and climb Everest. His partner Simone Moro has descended to Base Camp exhausted after rescuing a young British mountaineer