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The first via ferrata in Canton Ticino has been built on Monte Salvatore high above Lake Lugano.

From 10-13 October the Italian mountain village Sesto will host an international Forum entitled "The art of climbing in 2002 - a reflection".

Cesare Maestri stops short his ascent of Shisha Pangma due to mountain sickness

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

Climbing techniques, single pitch lower-off analysis. What to do when you reach the abseil chain.

The good weather spell that started last week seems to be holding out enabling many mountaineers to reach the various summits including Everest and Makalu. Jean-Christophe Lafaille and Inurrategi summit Annapurna.

Manaslu success for Corono, Makalu final stages for Mondinelli

Jacques Perrin’s Le Peuple Migrateur has won the 50th International Festival of Mountains, Exploration and Adventure “Città di Trento”.

The latest news about Jean-Christophe Lafaille place him acclimatising and preparing the camps along the south face of Annapurna.

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France to Switzerland across one of the most fascinating Haute Route ski mountaineering traverses in the Alps, by Italian Mountain guide Nicolò Berzi.

Robert and Daniela Jasper climb hard ice in Canada and Switzerland

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

For the third year running the "Family of Friends" will take place at Montchavin Les Côches, at La Plagne, France from 10 to 15 March.

The Italian Valle di Daone will host the Italian Championship and a stage of the IWC 2002

Avventura donna offers ice climbing for women in Austria's Pitztal

A new posthumous collection of Anatoli Boukreev’s writings entitled “Above the clouds - The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer” has recently been published.