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| | RUSSIAN PIOLET D'OR WINNERS ANNOUNCED |
 | | The oft-criticized French alpinism award, the Piolet D'or, has received yet another blow, this time from the Russians, who, failing to collect the French prize, created their own golden ice axe award, the Russian Piolet D'or. |
 | | On November 25, in a ceremony held in Moscow, the sixteen-member siege-style first ascent of K2's West Face Direct (Russian 6b) was awarded the first Russian Piolet D'Or. |
 | | Valery Babanov and Sergey Kofanov's alpine-style climb (VI WI4+ M5, 3000m) on Jannu's Magic Pillar won second place, and the first ascent of Never More (Russian 6b, 1600m) on Shingu Charpa's east face by Davy, Klenov and Shabunin won third. |
| www.alpinist.com /doc/web07f/newswire-russian-piolet-d'or (709 words) |
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