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A study to verify the impact of pollution on the roof of the world is to be carried out by two Italian researchers Giuseppe Giaveri and Luigi Bergamaschi

The first ascent of everest was carried out in 1953. The timeline about the first ski and snowboard descents off the highest mountain in the world.

Interview by Emilio Previtali with 38-year-old Slovenian extreme skier and alpinist Davo Karnicar after his ski down the South Face of everest.

The 19th edition of the International Festival of Mountain Films "Vila de Torelló" is currently being held in Torelló, Spain.

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

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).

FREE.RIDER, the magazine dedicated to freeride and all its facets has just hit the shops in Italy.

The Italians Mondinelli, Blanc, Favre, Busca, Rosset have all successfully summited Dhaulagiri. The Spaniard Pepe Garces dies during the descent.

The Himalaya veterans Silvio Mondinelli and Mario Merelli departed for Dhaulagiri on 9 September. A strong Slovenian expedition heads for Cho Oyu

Helly Hansen’s half-yearly magazine has now matured to its fourth edition, and this can be received free by filling out the order form on www.hellyhansen.com

The Italian Silvio Mondinelli climbs his third 8000m peak this season by summiting Gasherbrum I

The IVth Cervino International Filmfestival gets underway in Cervinia today

The Frenchman Jean-Christophe Lafaille speaks to planetMountain before his departure for K2

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

Silvio Mondinelli and Mario Merelli reached the summit of everest and have descended to Base Camp. Denis Urubko and Simone Moro have descended to BC. Spanish expedition success via everest North Face. Lhotse Middleclimbed by a Russian expedition.