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S. Moro and D. Urubko attempting the Lhotse (8516m) - everest (8850m) traverese have finished acclimatising by climbing to the South Col. Conditions on Lhotse are not good yet

The fifteen year-old Sherpa Temba Tcheri will attempt to become the youngest person to climb everest. At Makalu the "Aquila" install ABC while various team members are evacuated due to High Altitude Sickness

All the 'Polartec Challenge' projects for 2001

The spring 2001 himalayan season is about to begin and the majority of expeditions are heading, once again, to Mt. everest

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

The peak fees 2001 published by the governments of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Tibet

The Italian mountaineer Simone Moro plans to a six-month winter tour to climb mountains in the Tien Shan, everest and Lhotse, and in doing so hopes to become the first Italian Snow Leopard

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

The Banff Mountain Film Festival 2000 and Banff Mountain Book Festival take place from 1-5 November and are preceded by the Banff Mountain Summit

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

Monsoon impedes progress. Cho Oyu most crowded, eleven expeditions on Shisha Pangma, just one mountaineer on everest

'It was 9.00 am, 24 May and a -40 ºC Himalayan storm was blowing right into me.' Simone Moro talks about his climb of the highest mountain in the world.

Bad weather affects most Himalayan expeditions

Simone Moro gives details of his everest ascent with Denis Urubku