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Mountaineering News Saturday 4th February 2012

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FRIDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2012
2012 Piolets d'Or & Lifetime Achievement Award
  2012 Piolets d'Or & Lifetime Achievement Award The 20th Piolets d'Or, a celebration of noteworthy mountaineering ascents during 2011, will take place in Chamonix and Courmayeur from 21st -24th March. Currently, a small steering panel has selected more than 80 ascents from last year that for a variety of reasons are deemed to have made a significant contribution to mountaineering. This is shortly to be reduced to a collection of 20-25 th
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THURSDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2012
Triple new World Record on Antarctica Centennial
  Triple new World Record on Antarctica Centennial On Jan 23 2012 at 22:30 hours, Sebastian Copeland and Eric McNair-Landry made history with their 3rd consecutive polar first in as many months. The Antarctica Legacy Crossing, led by Copeland, successfully completed a three-month transcontinental crossing of Antarctica. The team started on November 5th, 2011, on the east coast of the continent and in total covered 3,854 km (approx. 4100 adjusted k
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WEDNESDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 2012
David Lama and Cerro Torre; A Mountain Set Free
  David Lama and Cerro Torre; A Mountain Set Free It started with the death of a man. Italian climber Toni Egger was killed on the then unclimbed Cerro Torre in 1959 attempting the north east ridge, partnered by fellow Italians Cesare Maestri and Cesarino Fava. All three climbers had made it to the large breche between Cerro Torre and Torre Egger (the Col of Conquest), but from there Fava had descended, leaving Maestri and Egger to continue. Egge
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