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News:

Meeting Courmayeur 27th May 2006

Different topich have been discussed, most of the members of the UIAA Commission, Organizers, local representatives and climbers were present. Workgroups for different topics have been formed and it has been decided that all the organizers wishing to organize a World cup event must first prove their ability by organizing an international event according to all UIAA regulations. So this season we'll only have 3 events, but it is sure that they will be on high level, well organized, with good routes and judged upon same rules.

Here is the new forum for ice climbing competitions and ice conditions - please use it after it starts freezing to get fresh info of where it is possible to climb.

Hemsedal 2006

My view of Hemsedal event

Ice World cup has finished in Hemsedal (World's most expensive city) and I hope we'll see each other next year again. The page with an article about Hemsedal will be online till end of the week. Here is the unofficial ranking for the World cup and here are the results from Hemsedal. An article in Planetmountain is here...
Andrej

Saas Fee 2006

The competition in Saas Fee is the one where the best athlets in both disciplines (speed and difficulty) match every year. Before the competition there was also a training course for the new judges. Some more pics from Saas Fee
and the article about it

Spicak Czech Republic - winner Simon Wandeler, 2nd Marcus Bendler, 3rd Harry Berger among 23 competitors. Women - 1st ines Papert, 2nd Ksenja Sdobnikova, 3rd Anna Toretta among 8 women
Speed competition canceled... Read the article about it and the athlet's opinions

Val Daone - Samuel Anthamatten and Harry Berger share 1st place, Herbert Klammer 3rd!
Ines Papert wins among women, Anna Torretta was 2nd and Stephanie Maureau 3rd
Strange new rules adopted on briefing without being published before !!!!

Slovenian cup (Slovenija) final ceremony has been on 10th of March - more under SLO cup page

First competitions have been held and it seems that they still attract a lot of competitors and very few sponsors. Maybe we should also work harder to attract the sponsors and local communities to support this sport...

List of contacts ( UIAA CICC & judges)

We announce the tragical news that our friend and ice climbing enthusiast Michael Boos Diehl died on the North Face route on Mt. Robson on July 29th. The cause of the avalanche appeared to be from a large cornice release. He has been the soul of IWC in 2002 and 2003 and he was the one who made the Ice climbing competition rules that are now used around the world.

In memorium of Michael Boos