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17/05/2004 - Alpinism
Lhotse ascent for Nives Meroi, Romano Benet and Luca Vuerich On 16/05 Nives Meroi, Romano Benet and Luca Vuerich summite Lhotse (8516m). Nives Meroi is now the most successful living female mountaineer.
12/05/2004 - Alpinism
Lhotse, Makalu, Everest, Jannu: work in progress Expeditions: summit time is fast approaching. In the Everest region the second half of May is statistically the most important time of year for successful summit bids.
10/05/2004 - Events
52nd Film Festival di Trento From the 1st to the 9th of May the International Festival of Mountains, Exploration and Adventure will take place in the small town of Trento, Northern Italy.
06/05/2004 - Alpinism
Ciao Patrick, new route on Khali Himal The report by Simone Moro eand details of the new route on the North Face of Khali Himal - Baruntse North (7066m), Nepal.
04/05/2004 - Alpinism
Camos, Urubko and Moro summit Baruntse North At 7.00am (CET) Simone Moro, Denis Urubko and Bruno Tassi reached the summit of Khali Himal (7041m) or Baruntse North.
17/03/2004 - Alpinism
Russians to attempt North Face of Jannu Alexander Odintsov and his Russian Expedition members will attempt to climb the imposing North Face of Jannu 7710m this spring
01/03/2004 - Alpinism
Russian Expedition to climb new line on Everest North Face At the end of February an 20-stong Russian Expedition set off from Moscow for the Himalayas, where it aims to forge a technical new route up the Central Pillar of Everest's North Face
23/02/2004 - Events
Cristal FFME 2003 awarded to Benoist - Glairon-Rappaz and Bérhault - Magnin The Fédération Française de la Montagne et de l'Escalade awarded the climbers Benoist-Glairon-Rappaz and Bérhault-Magnin for their outstandiing ascents in 2003
19/02/2004 - Alpinism
Dry tooling: Nelson and Ogden on tour In a two week trip Ryan Nelson and Jared Ogden from Colorado repeated some of the hardest dry tooling routes in Europe, including Mission Impossible and Vertical Limit.
10/02/2004 - Events
Babanov and Koshelenko win Piolet d'or 2003 Valeri Babanov and Yuri Koshelenko won the prestigous Piolet d'Or for their ascent of Nuptse East South Pillar in November 2003.
25/01/2004 - Alpinism
Nanga Parbat 1970. Reinhold Messner told the truth Günther Messner really did perish during the descent of the Nanga Parbat Diamir Face, as his brother Reinhold has always sustained.
19/01/2004 - Alpinism
Shisha Pangma Winter Expedition: attempt aborted On 17/01 Simone Moro and Piotr Morawski aborted their attempt at 7700m of make the first winter ascent of Shisha Pangma (8027m).
08/01/2004 - Alpinism
Aconcagua south face: new route for Humar and Kozelj At the end of December 2003 the Slovenians Tomaz Humar and Ales Kozelj climbed the south face of Aconcagua (6930 m) via a new route "Mobitel's Swallow - Johan's route" VI+(A2).
31/10/2003 - Alpinism
Sergio Martini reaches Shisha Pangma Central On 8 October the Italian mountaineer Sergio Martini reached the summit of Shisha Pangma Central Peak
28/10/2003 - Alpinism
The Crystal Snake of Nuptse In spring 2003 Damian Benegas and Willie Benegas made the first ascent of The Crystal Snake 5.9 M4 WI5 up the North Face of Nuptse, 7855m, close to Everest.
21/10/2003 - Alpinism
Jannu and Nuptse, the Russian expeditions Latest news from the Himalaya. the Russian Jannu Expedition has abandoned its attempt, while Valery Babanov and Yury Koshelenko are currently going for their summit push
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