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25/10/2007 - Alpinism
Piolet d’or Asia 2007, the candidates The 4 nominations for the second edition of the Piolet d’or Asia, due to take place in Seol on November 2, have been made public.
29/01/2007 - Alpinism
Piolet d'or 2006 awarded to Prezelj and Lorencic for Chomo Lhari On 26 January 2007 Marko Prezelj and Boris Lorencic from Slovenia were awarded the "Golden ice axe" for their new route on Chomo Lhari. Pavle Kozjek was awarded the Spectators Choice for his new route climbed solo up Cho Oyu....
24/01/2007 - Alpinism
16th Piolet d'or: alpine style Himalayan mountaineering On Friday 16 January 2007 the five teams nominated for the award will present their ascent to the public and the (desired and prestigious) golden ice axe will be awarded to the "ascent of the year".
13/11/2006 - Alpinism
Asia Piolet d'or awarded to Urubko and Samilov for new route on manaslu On 10/11/2006 the Kazak mountaineers Denis Urubko and Serguey Samoilov won the first edition of the Piolet d'or Asia, the award created by Men and Mountain, Montagnes Magazine and Grivel for the best mountaineering achievement carried out by Asian mountaineers....
09/06/2006 - Alpinism
Himalaya: Urubko and Samoilov summit manaslu via new route On 8 May Denis Urubko and Serguey Samoilov summited manaslu via new route up the NE Face.
19/05/2006 - Alpinism
Himalaya: Mondinelli, Corona, Casarotto summit Lhotse At 10.00 am on 19/05/2006 Silvio 'Gnaro' Mondinelli, Giampaolo Corona and Giampaolo Casarotto reached the summit of Lhotse.
02/05/2006 - Alpinism
Himalaya: first summits despite monsoon A six-man Nepali-Tibetan team has summited Everest, while the Spaniards Inaki Ochoa de Olza and Jorge Echoeaga reached the summit of manaslu (8.163m) on 29 April.
06/06/2005 - Alpinism
Alan Hinkes climbs world's 14 highest peaks! On 30 May British mountaineer Alan Hinkes reached the summit of Kangchenjunga (8586m). In doing so he became the first Briton to summit the world's fourteen 8000m peaks
20/05/2004 - Alpinism
Lhotse ascent for Kuntner and Joss, Everest for Nardi. And K2 time is fast approaching. On 15/05 Kristian Kuntner (ITA) and Norbert Joos (SUI) reached the summit of Lhotse without the use of supplementary oxygen. This is the 13th annd 1th 800m peak respectively. On 19/05 Daniele Nardi reached the summit of Everest from the...
14/05/2002 - Alpinism
manaslu success, Makalu final stages manaslu success for Corono, Makalu final stages for Mondinelli
15/04/2002 - Alpinism
Makalu walk-in problematic During the walk-in to Makalu base camp Mondinelli and expedition members had their belongings stolen
06/08/2001 - Alpinism
Gasherbrum I success for Mondinelli The Italian Silvio Mondinelli climbs his third 8000m peak this season by summiting Gasherbrum I
07/06/2001 - Alpinism
Jean-Christophe Lafaille and K2 The Frenchman Jean-Christophe Lafaille speaks to planetMountain before his departure for K2
25/05/2001 - Alpinism
Everest success for Mondinelli and Merelli, plus other news Silvio Mondinelli and Mario Merelli reached the summit of Everest and have descended to Base Camp. Denis Urubko and Simone Moro have descended to BC. Spanish expedition success via Everest North Face. Lhotse Middleclimbed by a Russian expedition.
02/04/2001 - Alpinism
Himalaya 2001 report The spring 2001 himalayan season is about to begin and the majority of expeditions are heading, once again, to Mt. Everest
19/03/2001 - Alpinism
Jean-Christophe Lafaille, interview after new route solo on West face Drus, Mont Blanc Interview with Jean-Christophe Lafaille after his solo ascent of the West Face of the Drus, Mont Blanc
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