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17/11/2005 - Alpinism
Salvaterra, Garibotti and Beltrami climb new route on Cerro Torre On 13/11/2005 Ermanno Salvaterra, Alessandro Beltrami and Rolando Garibotti reached the summit of Cerro Torre vie their new route 'El Arca de los Vientos' (The Arc of Winds), Patagonia.
17/11/2005 - Alpinism
Glowacz and Jasper summit Murallon! Stefan Glowacz and Robert Jasper have completed their "Vom Winde verweht" up the North Pillar of Murallón, Patagonia.
16/11/2005 - Events
Banff mountain Festival winners 2005 Sur le fil des 4000 takes film festival Grand Prize, while the book festival is won by Karsten Heuer for his Being Caribou. The mountain Photography Competition Grand Prize was awarded to Mead Norton for his photo Prayer Offerings...
11/11/2005 - Alpinism
Glowacz and Jasper biding time in Patagonia After establishing Base camp at Cerro Murallón Stefan Glowacz and Robert Jasper are currently waiting for conditions to improve in Patagonia.
09/11/2005 - Climbing
Bindhammer Big Hammer 9a first ascent On 01/11/2005 Christian Bindhammer made the first ascent of "Big Hammer" 9a at the Pinswang, Austria and "Pandaemonium" 8c.
07/11/2005 - Climbing
Harald Berger Alpine Trilogy triumph 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).
07/11/2005 - Climbing
Pietro dal Pra' first repeat of Unendliche Geschichte Pietro dal Prà from Italy has made the first repeat of "Unendliche Geschichte" 8b+, climbed by Beat Kammerlander in 1990.
03/11/2005 - Climbing
Caldwell climbs Nose & Freerider in a day! Just two weeks after Caldwell's astounding repeat of the Nose, the young American has pushed things further by phenomenally climbing both the Nose and Freerider on El Capitan, Yosemite, in under 24 hours!
30/10/2005 - Competitions
World Cup Valence: Verhoeven and Eiter victorious The penultimate round of the World Cup Lead 2005 was won in Valence, France by Jorg Verhoeven and Angela Eiter.
28/10/2005 - Climbing
Castello dell'Iride at risk The future of Sardinia's most famous southern crags, Castello dell'Iride is uncertain as climbing has recently been forbidded by the town council.
26/10/2005 - Climbing
Zero gravity days Patxi Usobiaga becomes the third person in the world to on-sight an 8c, 'Gaua' at Lezain (N. Spain). Wolfgang Güllich's Action Directe 9a has been repeated by Dai Koyamada and Markus Bock. Martina Cufar on-sights Paieda' 8a+ at Rodellar, Spain...
25/10/2005 - Competitions
World Cup Shanghai: victory for Puigblanque and Vidmar The seventh stage of the World Cup Lead 2005 took place in Shangai, China, last weekend, and was won by Ramón Julián Puigblanque and Maja Vidmar.
24/10/2005 - Alpinism
18 killed by avalanche at Kang Guru (Annapurna) The news was announced on Nepalese television yesterday: 7 French mountaineers/trekkers and 11 Nepalese Sherpa have been killed by an avalanche at Kang Guru Base Camp. Kang Guru lies in the Manang region, close to Annapurna, Nepal and is 6981m...
20/10/2005 - Climbing
Caldwell repeats The Nose! Yosemite news roundup. On 17 October Tommy Caldwell made a sub-12 hour ascent of the Nose, just days after his free ascent together with wife Beth Rodden. Nicolas Favresse from Belgium makes first ascent of L'Appât on El Capitan (VI...
19/10/2005 - Climbing
Terra di Mezzo: new Caporal aid route by Folco and Gaggini At the start of October Valerio Folco and Cristina Gaggini made the first ascent of the aid route Terra di Mezzo (A3), Caporal Valle dell'Orco, Italy
13/10/2005 - Climbing
Rich Simpson makes 6th ascent of Action Directe News just in report Richard Simpson from England having successfully made the sixth ascent of Wolfgang Güllich's Action Direct, Frankenjura, Germany
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