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A brief resumè of hard ascents by Markus Bendler, Steve McClure, Gérôme Pouvreau, Martina Cufar, Tomàs Mrazek, Patxi Usobiaga, Ueli Steck and Ines Papert.

An interview with Yuji Hirayama after the first ever 8c on-sight: White Zombi in the Baltzola Cave, Spain.

On 6/10/2004 Yuji Hirayama made the first-ever 8c onsight: White Zombie, Baltzola Cave, Spain.

On 29/07/2004 Patxi Usobiaga made the third ascent of Realization / Biographie, 9a+ at Céüse.

On 24/05 Sylvain Millet made the first repeat of Realization / Biographie 9a/9a+, Ceuse, first climbed by Chris Sharma in 2001.

Josune Bereziartu repeats “Nowa” 8c, "B12" 8b+ , “Sexibition" 8b and "Psicosis" 8c. Rikar Otegi sends "Nowa" , "B12" and "Desafiando a Tsunami" 8c+/9a.

Alessandro Jolly Lamberti has repeated Bain de Sang 9a at Saint Loup, Switzerland.

Ramón Julián Puigblanque has made the first ascent of "Estado crítico", 9a at Siurana, Spain,

Yuji Hirayama has made the first repeat of Golden Gate 5.13b by the huber brothers in Yosemite, America

Didier Berthod has freed 'Greenspit' using trad gear only above Rosone, Valle dell'Orco, Italy

Josune Bereziartu sends Na-Nai 8c+ at the Baltzola Cave, Spain

British climber Steve McClure has made the first ascent of the extension to Raindogs, 9a at Malham Cove, England. The new sports climb is called Rainshadow.

Josune Bereciartu’s short trip to Switzerland at the start of May resulted in a repeat of Fred Nicole’s 1994 “E la nave va”, an 8c traverse in the Lindental.

On 14/05 Christian Bindhammer repeated Action Direct 9a in the Frankenjura, first climbed by Wolfgang Güllich in 1991.

On 13/04 Christian Bindhammer frees "Zauberfee" 8c+, at the Eremo di S. Paolo (Arco). And his brother Andreas Bindhammer repeats it a few days later.

The classic international ski mountaineering race was won by the duo Patrick Blanc and Toni Sbalbi, vice world champions and winners of the Pierra Menta 2003, and the world champions Valérie Ducognon and Delphine Oggeri.