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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.

After his ascent of Lhotse Denis Urubko is now set to complete the traverse and climb everest. His partner Simone Moro has descended to Base Camp exhausted after rescuing a young British mountaineer

Mario Vielmo summits Cho Oyu. Blanc, Kuntner and Andres depart for Nanga Parbat. everest and Lhotse summited, last chance for Moro and Urubko

Bad weather on the North Face of everest. The Spanish TV Expedition has so far only managed to pitch a tent at Camp II at 7800m

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

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