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25/02/2004 - Alpinism
Bubu Bole and Anna Torretta dry tooling at Ueschinen Mauro Bubu Bole repeats No limits M12+ and Anna Torretta climbs Vertical Limits M12 at Ueschinen, Switzerland

24/02/2004 - Alpinism
Hannes Pfeifhofer repeats ‘La via è bella’ M11 On 8/02/2004 Hannes Pfeifhofer repeated ‘La via è bella’ M11

23/02/2004 - Events
Cristal FFME 2003 awarded to Benoist - Glairon-Rappaz and Bérhault - Magnin The Fédération Française de la Montagne et de l'Escalade awarded the climbers Benoist-Glairon-Rappaz and Bérhault-Magnin for their outstandiing ascents in 2003

19/02/2004 - Alpinism
Dry tooling: Nelson and Ogden on tour In a two week trip Ryan Nelson and Jared Ogden from Colorado repeated some of the hardest dry tooling routes in Europe, including Mission Impossible and Vertical Limit.

17/02/2004 - Competitions
Climbing competitions 2004 The Climbing World Cup 2004 Difficulty, Bouldering and Speed commence in less than six weeks time.

10/02/2004 - Events
Babanov and Koshelenko win Piolet d'or 2003 Valeri Babanov and Yuri Koshelenko won the prestigous Piolet d'Or for their ascent of Nuptse East South Pillar in November 2003.

06/02/2004 - Competitions
Kryvosheytsev and Buchmann win Ice-extreme boulder Evgenyy Kryvosheytsev (UKR) and Kirsten Buchmann (GER) have won the Ice-extreme boulder at Solcava (Slovenia).

06/02/2004 - Alpinism
Saint-Ours II 6, M6 for Marlier, Chenal and M. Farina Ezio Marlier, Francesca Chenal and Marco Farina have made the first ascent of "Saint-Ours" II 6, M6, at Fenille, Valsavarenche, Valle d'Aosta.

05/02/2004 - Climbing
Scarian wrestles with the Gladiator 8c+ On 26 January Riccardo Scarian freed "Il Gladiatore" 8c+ at Fonzaso, Italy.

04/02/2004 - Alpinism
Life is beautiful for Mauro Bubu Bole Mauro Bubu Bole frees "La via è bella" M11, Valle di Landro, Dolomites

29/01/2004 - Alpinism
Marmolada cement danger Mountain Wilderness appeals against a planned development project at Malga Ciapela

28/01/2004 - Competitions
Papert and Berger win Ice climbing World Championship 2004 On 24/01/2004 Ines Papert and Harald Berger won the Ice climbing World Championship 2004. Alexandre Matveev and Natalia Koulikova won the Speed event.

26/01/2004 - Climbing
Stefania Daniele climbs envy On 22/01 Stefania Daniel climbed Invidia (3rd chain 8a), at the Grotta dell'aeronauta, Sperlonga.

25/01/2004 - Alpinism
Nanga Parbat 1970. Reinhold Messner told the truth Günther Messner really did perish during the descent of the Nanga Parbat Diamir Face, as his brother Reinhold has always sustained.

20/01/2004 - Competitions
Ice World Championships 2004 The Ice World Championships 2004 will be held in Saas Fee, Switzerland, from 23-25/01/2004

19/01/2004 - Alpinism
Shisha Pangma Winter Expedition: attempt aborted On 17/01 Simone Moro and Piotr Morawski aborted their attempt at 7700m of make the first winter ascent of Shisha Pangma (8027m).
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