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Mead Norton wins 2005 Banff Mountain Photography Competition Grand Prize for his photo Prayer Offerings on the Shore of Namtso Lake, Tibet.

In mid-August Dodo Kopold and Gabo Cmarik from Slovakia made the first ascent of "Assalam Alaikum" UIAA VIII A2, ABO on Great Trango, Pakistan.

Nicola Tondini and Dario Segato have made the first ascent of "Piccolo Principe" 250m, 8 pitches, max 7a+. on the south face of Punta dei Larsei, Sella, Dolomites.

Steve House and Vince Anderson have ascended a new route up the famous and immense Rupal Face on Nanga Parbat (8125m).

Silvestro Stucchi & Co. climbs Mago Merlino (7b) on Tagoujimt N'Tsouiant (2977m), Taghia (High Atlas, Morocco).

Last July Lynn Hill and Katie Brown made a free ascent of Leaning Tower's West Face (Yosemite, U.S.A.).

on 05/08 Maurizio "Manolo" Zanolla" made the second on-sight of Spirit, (Cima Merionale, Cime d'Auta, Dolomites).

Love my dogs (7a, 300m), new route on Lastoni di Formin (Dolomites) by Mario Dibona and Gretchen Alexander.

On Sunday 17 July Bruno Pederiva and Mario Prinoth made the first repeat of the 'LarcherVigiani' on the south face of the Marmolada.

On 10 July Cristian Brenna and Giovanni Ongaro freed "Up & Down", the route on the Chogolisa's Central Pillar (5300m circa - S-SE) first ascended by Hervé Barmasse, Luca Maspes, Francesca Chenal and Brenna himself at the end of June.

On 02/06/05 Tomas Mrazek from the Czech Republic and and Angela Eiter from Austria won the World Championships Lead 2005 held in Munich, Germany.

Gerome Pouvreau and Olga Bibik have won the third stage of the Bouldering Worldcup 2005 at Fiera di Primiero, Italy

The third round of the Bouldering World Cup 2005 takes place in Italy's Fiera di Pimiero today and tomorrow

In May 2005 Eliza Kubarska, Przemek Klimek and David Kaszlikowski made the first ascent of one of the longest free climbs in the Atlas mountain range (Taghia), Fantasia 7b+/c, 700m on Tagouimmt N’Tsouiannt, Morocco.

At the start of June the Italians Silvestro Stucchi and Elena Davila made a rare repeat of Zenyatta Mondatta A4 in Yosemite.

On 30 May British mountaineer Alan Hinkes reached the summit of Kangchenjunga (8586m). In doing so he became the first Briton to summit the world's fourteen 8000m peaks