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A fortnight ago Mauro Bubu Bole revisited Kurt Astner's cave in Valle di Landro and climbed Mister Big Ben M12

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

Israel Blanco and Mauro Bubu Bole make the first and second repeat of The Game M13 at the Cineplex Cave in Canada, while Anna Torretta repeats Musashi M12.

Mauro Bubu Bole, Anna Torretta, Israel Blanco and Andrea Gallo are currently on tour in Canada to try some of the hardest drytooling routes. Bole has made a quick repeat of Musashi M12 by Will Gadd at the Cineplex Cave.

Mauro Bubu Bole repeats No limits M12+ and Anna Torretta climbs Vertical Limits M12 at Ueschinen, Switzerland

On 8/02/2004 Hannes Pfeifhofer repeated ‘La via è bella’ M11

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.

Mauro Bubu Bole frees "La via è bella" M11, Valle di Landro, Dolomites

Anna Torretta repeats Robert Jasper's "Tomahawk" M10+/M11- at Sulwald, Switzerland

Robert Jasper makes the first ascent of Batman M12 E1, Basler Jura and on-sights Mission Impossible M11

Massimo Da Pozzo, better known for his hard first ascents on the massive Dolomite walls around Cortina, Italy, has added two mixed routes in the Forra del Rio Felizon close to Cortina.

On 27 January Kurt Astner flashed Mauro Bubu Bole's Mission Impossible next to the Haston cave, Valsavarenche, Va di Cogne, Italy.

Alexei Tomilov and ines Papert win the second stage of the Ice World Cup in Daone 2003

Anna Torretta, Kurt Astner and Massimo Farina dry tooling in Italy

From 8 — 12 January 2002 the French Parc National des Ecrins will host the Fournel Ice Climbing Event for 800 ice climbers. The nominees for the Piolet D'Or 2002 will be presented, as will the winning films of the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Italian Mauro Bubu Bole is now online with his personal www.climbubu.com