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From 4 - 8 January 2006 Europe's most important ice climbing meeting, the ice climbing Ecrins, will take place in Argentière - La Bessée, France.

Markus Bendler has made the first ascent of "Das Erbe der Väter" 8c+ at the Schleierwasserfall, Tyrol, Austria.

Harald Berger from Austria becomes the second person to send the Trilogy, comprised of “Silbergeier” 8b+ (Beat Kammerlander), “End of silence” 8b+ (Thomas Huber) and “Kaisers neue Kleider” 8b+ (Stefan Glowacz).

Evgeny Kryvosheytsev has repeated The Game M13+, Cineplex Cave, Canada

The eigth edition of the Festiglass du Quebec took place in Canada from 18-20 February 2005. The individual competition was won by Evgeny Kryvosheytsev.

On 24 February Massimo Farina died while ice climbing in Val di Rhemes (Italy).

The Slovenian ice climbing championship took place in the Mojstrana gorge on 5/6 February, and was won by Evgeny Kryvosheytsev and Silvia Cian.

Hannes Pfeifhofler and Jenny Lavarda win the second stage of the Alpin Cup 2004/5 in Val Passiria

Anna Torretta talks about the icefalls at Kandersteg, Switzerland

Bubu Bole and Silvia Cian have won the first stage of Alpin Cup, held in Campitello di Fassa on 26/27 December.

On 5 November Ines Papert redpointed Schattenkoenig 8b at Berchtesgaden, Germany.

Ice meeting for the 2004/2005 season in Arco, Italy, Argentière la Bessée (Fournel), France, st its annual ice-fall meeting:Kandersteg, Switzerland and Festiglace, Quebec, Canada

Work is underway on the ice climbing Stadium for the international Ice Master in Valle di Daone, programmed for 25-29 January 2005

From 25-29 January 2005 the Vth International Meeting Pareti di Cristallo will be held in Valle di Daone, Italy.

In an open letter Yvon Chouinard, mountaineer, surfer, fly fisherman and founder of "Patagonia", the famous American outdoor clothing company explains how urgent and pressing the envirnmental issue is.

A flurry of new routes in Italy's Valle di Cogne, Valle d'Aosta