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Salavat Rakhmetov and Olha Shalagina win the Bouldering World Championships 2005 in Munich.

Angela Eiter and Cedric Lachat win the fourth stage of the Lead Worldcup 2005 in Zurich, switzerland.

Ueli Steck and his solo ascents of Cholatse and Tawoche in the Himalaya, in the words of Christine Kopp .

On 09/05/2005 Josune Bereziartu made the first female ascent of Bimbaluna 9a/9a+ at Saint Loup, switzerland, pushing the scale of female performances up one notch.

Angela Eiter from Austria and Ramón Julián Puigblanque from Spain have won the second round of the Lead Worldcup 2005 held in Puurs, Belgium, last weekend.

A boulderining meeting at Cresciano and Chironico (switzerland) will take place on 16-17 April 2005.

On 9/04 Guido Giacomelli and Mirko Mezzanotte won the Tour du Rutor, the final stage of the World Cup 2005, won by the Frenchmen Gachet Gregory and Perrier Florent ahead of Giacomelli and Mezzanotte and the Swiss duo Blanc and Brosse.

The Gurschen glacier (Andermatt, switzerland) will be wrapped in plastic to prevent it from melting due to global warming.

The Slovenian ice climbing championship took place in the Mojstrana gorge on 5/6 February, and was won by Evgeny Kryvosheytsev and Silvia Cian.

The World and European Championship Ice Boulder took place in Valle di Daone last weekend and was won by Harald Berger and Ines Papert.

Saas Fee 21-22 January 2004. The Austrian Harald Berger and Petra Muller from switzerland won the World Championship Ice Difficulty, while the Speed event was won by Evgeny Kryvosheytsev from the Ukraine and Natalia Koulikova from Russia

Anna Torretta talks about the icefalls at Kandersteg, switzerland

Ice meeting for the 2004/2005 season in Arco, Italy, Argentière la Bessée (Fournel), France, st its annual ice-fall meeting:Kandersteg, switzerland and Festiglace, Quebec, Canada

The eigth stage of the Difficulty World Cup 2004 was won last weekend by Flavio Crespi and Alexandra Eyer.

At the start of October more than 500 climbers from all over the world gathered in Kalymnos for the second Kalymnos Rock Climbing Festival.

At the UIAA General Assembly in New Delhi, on 16 October 2004, there were important elections for the term of 2005-2008 for a new President, Board, Council and Commission members.