The news

On Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September the annual Rock Master will take place in Arco.

On 8/09 Silvio Mondinelli, Domenico Di Bartolomeo, Mario Merelli, Marco D’Ercole, Roberto Delle Monache, Antonio Acerbo and Alberto Magliano departed for Shisha Pangma (8013m).

On 12.08.03 the Germans Ines Papert and Hans Lochner carried out the first one-day redpoint of one of the hardest routes on the Eiger, Symphonie de Liberté

On 17/09/2003 a ravaging fire destroyed one of Italy's premier climbing wall manufacturers Ecogrips, the climbing shop Vertical Sport, and the climbing wall Action House in Trento, northern Italy

On 13 September Luca Zardini freed Lo Schiaffo 8c, Becco d'Ajal, Dolomites

Salavat Rakhmetov and Sandrine Levet win the fifth stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2003 in Rovereto

On 31/08 the Nepalese Sherpa Daichhiri won the 150 km Mont Blanc marathon.

The fifth stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2003 gets underway in Rovereto tomorrow.

Mauro Bole and Harald Berger repeat The End of Silence, 8b+ on the Feuerhorn, Berchtesgaden Alpen

F. Lasagni and L. Nadali have established "4 giorni una estate" on the Sass Pordoi , Sella, Dolomites

Thomas and Alexander Huber brothers have redpointed two old projects on the Feuerhorn, Brechtesgaden, Monstermagnet 7c and Firewall 8b

In August Silvestro Stucchi, Anna Lazzarini, Elena Davila and Enea Colnago climbed "Linea Bianca" 7a on Tsaranoro Kely, Madagascar

Alex Chabot and Muriel Sarkany win the fourth stage of the World Cup Difficulty 2003 in Aviles, Spain

World Champions Maxim Stenkovoi and Olena Riepkosi won the fifth stage of the Speed Climbing World Cup, held in Daone, Italy on 27/07/2003

Romano Benet, Nives Meroi, Luca Verich have successfully climbed both Gasherbrum I and II

Jérôme Meyer and Sandrine Levet win the fourth leg of the Bouldering World Cup 2003 in Argentiere La Bessé