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22/04/2009 - Climbing
Yuji Hirayama frees The Fifth Element 9a at Chichibu, Japan 40 year old Yuji Hirayama has amde the first ascent of The Fifth Element 9a at Chichibu, Japan.

22/04/2009 - Climbing
Yuji Hirayama frees The Fifth Element 9a at Chichibu, Japan 40 year old Yuji Hirayama has made the first ascent of The Fifth Element 9a at Chichibu, Japan.

21/04/2009 - Climbing
Adam Ondra raids Italy Adam Ondra has returned to Italy and carried out the first ascent of "Vento nei Capelli" 8c+/9a at Cornalba and "La grande linea dei sogni"8c+/9a at Erto.

21/04/2009 - Events
57th TrentoFilmfestival preview The 57th Trento FilmFestival, the oldest film festival dedicated to mountains, exploration and adventure takes place in Trento from 21 April to 3 May. The films, evenings, main players and meetings and some thoughts about the pre-Festival...

20/04/2009 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
The XVII Mezzalama stopped before the start, 17th edition postponed The start of the Mezzalama Trophy scheduled for Sunday morning proved impossible due to deteriorating weather conditions which forced the organisers to postpone the start of more than 1000 athletes already at the start at Breuil - Cervinia. The classic ski mountaineering competition will probably be postponed a fortnight to...

16/04/2009 - Competitions
XVII Mezzalama Trophy - 19 April 2009 The 17th Mezzalama Trophy will take place on 19 April 2009. This classic ski mountaineering marathon takes place once every two years and dates back to 1933. As usual it starts at Breuil-Cervinia and finishes at Gressoney la Trinité via the Monte Rosa glacier and the summit of Monte Castore.

15/04/2009 - Climbing
Valle Verzasca bouldering restrictions Irrespective behaviour on behalf of climbers may result in access restrictions in Valle Verzasca, Switzerland.

14/04/2009 - Alpinism
Lofoten climbing meeting by Norwegian Alpine Club At the start of March the Norwegian Alpine Club (Norsk Tindeklub, NTK) hosted an international climbing meeting on the remote Lofoten islands. 40 climbers from 15 different nations attended the event designed to raise awareness of the climbing potential on the islands and to highlight the importance of Norway's immense...

10/04/2009 - Alpinism
Piotr Morawski dies on Dhaulagiri Polish mountaineer Piotr Morawski died on Dhaulagiri on 8 April after falling 20m into a crevasse. Piotr Drozdz, a friend and editor of the Polish Gory magazine, has sent us this text in memory of Morawski.

07/04/2009 - Climbing
Bernd Zangerl Chironico bouldering fest On 17 March Bernd Zangerl carried out the first repeat of "From Dirt Grows The Flowers", the Fb8c problem first climbed by Dave Graham in 2005 at Chironico, Switzerland.

06/04/2009 - Climbing
Petrohrad bouldering in the Czech Republic Petrohrad is the best bouldering area in the Czech Republic, situated 50km northwest of Plzen and 80 km west of Prague. Much like Fontainebleau, the area is divided up into many sub-areas in a mysterious forest and offers thousands of problems and an enormous potential for the future.

02/04/2009 - Climbing
Winds of change for climbing on Czech sandstone The Czech Mountaineering Union has passed a bill, still to be accepted by the Ministry of Environment, approving the use of chalk on Czech sandstone.

02/04/2009 - Climbing
La linea dei Sogni at Erto by Luca Zardini On 14/03/2009 Luca Zardini carried out the first ascent of "La linea dei Sogni" (8c+), the extension to the legendary "Sogni di Gloria" at Erto (Italy).

28/03/2009 - Alpinism
Morteratsch East, Bernina first ascent by Maspes, Panizza and Turk On 21 March Luca Maspes, Emanuel Panizza and Christian Turk carried out the first ascent of the ESE Face of Morteratsch (3751m) in the Bernina mountain range.

27/03/2009 - Climbing
Flashback Melloblocco 2008, a day climbing Luna Nascente This too is what rock climbing and the Melloblocco is all about: a normal story about a happy day climbing with Patxi Usobiaga and Curt Marazzi.

26/03/2009 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Paolo Rabbia, first winter ski traverse of the Alps Interview with Paolo Rabbia who from 29/12/2008 to 28/02/2009 carried out the first ski mountaineering traverse of the Alps in winter without the help of mechanical transport.
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