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In February 2007 Cyrille Berthod and Simon Anthamatten travelled to Patagonia for their first time ever and climbed 8 major peaks in the Fitz Roy massif - De L’S, Saint Exupery, St.Raphael, Poincenot, Fitz Roy, Mermoz, Guillaumet and Cerro Torre.

From 27/12/2006 to 7/04/2007 the Slovenian Mountain guide Miha Valic climbed all 82 peaks over 4000m high catalogued in the UIAA list.

On Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 2007 Val di Mello will host the 4th edition of the Melloblocco.

On 09/04/07 Christophe Profit, one of the most important mountaineers of all times, climbed the North Face of the Eiger for the tenth time with a client.

Josune Bereziartu repeats Mandragora, 8c (Onate) and Geminis, 8c (Rodellar) and on-sights a series of 8a and 8a+.

Registration is now possible for the sixth edition of the Rock Junior, the unique European climbing festival for young climbers and their families, scheduled for Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 June 2007 in Arco (Trento, Lake Garda, Italy).

On 21 February Ueli Steck from Switzerland climbed the North Face of the Eiger in a record time of 3.54.

Erik Svab flashes the dry tooling route "Mix isch fix" M10+ at the Grotta di Landro, Dolomites.

On Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of May 2007, Val di Mello will host the fourth edition of Melloblocco, the international outdoors bouldering meeting in Northern Italy

From 21 - 26 January 2007 the Italians Elio Orlandi, Michele Cagol, Fabio Leoni and Rolando Larcher made the first ascent of "Osa ma non troppo", a 700m line up the E Face of Cerro Cota 2000 (Torres del Paine, Patagonia). A beautiful route, great company and a fantastic adventure...

Winter ski mountaineering in the Julian Alps is both severe and complex, but at the same time it offers a great deal and reveals itself slowly to those willing to find out more.

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".

From Friday 19 January to Sunday 21 January the most famous international ice climbing competition in the world, the Ice Master World Cup, will take place in Italy's Valle di Daone.

On 27 December the body of Charlie Fowler was found at circa 5300m on the slopes of Mount Genyen, Sichuan, China.

Polar bears, icebergs, a sailing boat, whales and a plethora of unclimbed rock and thousands of new routes to be climbed...In mid August 2006 the Italian Mountain Guides Michele Maggioni and Marco Zaninetti set off with Cristina, Giovanni and the Arctic guide Kim to the remote Baffin Island in search...

At 14.15 on 20 December Harald Berger, the three times Ice Climbing World Champion, winner of numerous competitions and extremely talented rock climber, died beneath an immense quantity of ice which collapsed while he was climbing on the overhanging Eiskapelle cave close to Hintersee (Flachgau), Salzburg, Austria.