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Markus Bendler (AUT) amd Woon-Seon Shin (KOR) have won the second stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup 2008 which took place in Busteni, Romania on 09-11/02/2008.

On 02/02/2008 Gabriele Moroni from Italy repeated Dreamtime (Cresciano, switzerland), one of the most beautiful and famous boulder problems in the world.

James Pearson from Great Britain made the most of crisp winter conditions on 02/02/2008 to carry out the first ascent of The Groove E10 7b at the gritstone Cratcliffe Tor, Peak District.

On 20/01/2008 Maurizio Manolo Zanolla repeated Bimbaluna 9a/9a+ at Saint Loup, switzerland.

On 20/01/08 Simon Anthamatten and Petra Müller from switzerland won the first stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup 2008 in Valle di Daone. Jenny Lavarda from Italy and Markus Bendler from Austria placed second.

The first stage of the Ice World Cup Difficulty and Speed takes place in Valle di Daone from 18 - 20 January 2008.

Over three days at the start of January Robert Jasper from Germany and Bernd Rathmayr from switzerland ascended three immense icefalls in the Bernese Oberland, switzerland climbing over a kilometer of vertical ice in the Lauterbrunnental and Kandersteg.

The 8th Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival (Bernese Alps, switzerland) as seen by Marcello Sanguineti.

In December 2007 Kilian Fischhuber and Jon Cardwell repeated Dreamtime, Cresciano, switzerland.

Ice meetings in Argentière la Bessée (Fournel), France, Kandersteg, switzerland and Valle di Daone (Italy),plus the Ice Climbing World Cup 2008 calendar.

Hermann Erber and Kirsten Buchmann pay homage to Harald Berger with their picture book "Equilibrium". All proceeds will go to the Salzburg Mountain Guides Association which administers a fund to deal with similar emergency situations.

Ines Papert is touring Austria, Germany, switzerland and Italy with her "Higher Ground" multivision show.

On 07/10/2007 Stephan Siegrist and Ines Papert carried out the first free ascent of Herbstzeitlose (max 7c), on the S. Face of the Mittaghörnli (P.ta Signal), Bernese Oberland, switzerland.

On 14/02/2007 circa 40 mountaineers held an assembly at El Chaltén in Argentina’s "Los Glaciares" National Park to debate about the future if the expansion bolts on the 1970 Maestri “Compressor route” up Cerro Torre. Report and thoughts by Vicente Labate

On 25/08 Marco Olmo from Italy won the 5th edition of the Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc, from Chamonix back to Chamonix via Courmayeur, beating Jens Lukas from Germany and Nicolas Mermoud from France. The women's event was won by Nikki Kimball from the USA.

In April 2007 a mixed Slovenian – Swiss - German team headed to the Atomfjella mountains in Spitzbergen, Norway where they made numerous mixed first ascents.