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Antarctica.org by Michel De Wouters and Annick Pippelart won the 49th International Mountain Film Festival at Trento, Italy

All the 'Polartec Challenge' projects for 2001

In the Thien Shan mountain range, Simone Moro, Denis Urubko and Maksut Jumayev ascended Mramornayestina (6400m). A second group of alpinists from Kazakistan, Kirghistan and Uzbekistan led by Rinat Khaibullin successully completed the Karli Tau - Marble Wa

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

Thomas Huber and Iwan Wolf awarded prestigious Piolet d'Or 2001 by Montagnes Magazine for Shivas Line on Shivling

Ski mountaineering routes in the Goldberggruppe, Hoher Tauern, one of Austria's most beautiful and famous ski mountaineering areas.

On the East Face of La Esfinge (5325m) in the Paron Valley, Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Mauro Bole, Silvo Karo and photographer Boris Strmsek have established Cruz del Sur, an 800m big wall climb graded 7c+.

Davo Karnicar's Sherpas assert that the body he discovered when skiing down Everest was of Scott Fisher, the Mountain Guide who died on Everest in 1996

Italian expedition summits Pumori and collects snow samples for scientific research

On 7 October the Slovenian Davo Karnicar made the first uninterrupted ski descent of the South Face of Everest

Details of the successful ascent

The winners of the ALP/CERVINO International Film Festival

Bad weather forces Hans Kammerlander to abandon ascent

Bad weather results in one of worst seasons in decades

News from the Nepalese Women's Millenium Expedition and more

Interview with Hans Kammerlander, one of the driving forces in the mountaineering world, before his departure for K2.