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K v a lo y a I s l a n d Blamann (Blamannen, 861m), north face. This face received considerable attention in 2008, due in part to the newly published guidebook Kvaloya: Selected Climbs, and also to the 2007 free ascent of the superb 10-pitch Arctandria at F8b by Austrians Hansjörg Auer and M arkus Haid, an event that received widespread media publicity. Blamann, Ultima Thule, first winter ascent. Sum m iting on M arch 6, the Finnish climbers Sampsa Jyrkynen, Saku Korosuo, and Adrian Pollard made the first winter ascent of Ultima Thule, clim bing all seven pitches at A1 over a four-day period. On April 8 three Russian climbers, Sergej Beljajev, Aleksej Orudzjev, and Andrej Varvarkin, also clim bed U ltim a Thule. Although not a calendar winter ascent, it still involved harsh winter conditions. M a r t e n B lix t , Norway
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K v a lo y a I s l a n d Blamann (Blamannen, 861m), north face. This face received considerable attention in 2008, due in part to the newly published guidebook Kvaloya: Selected Climbs, and also to the 2007 free ascent of the superb 10-pitch Arctandria at F8b by Austrians Hansjörg Auer and M arkus Haid, an event that received widespread media publicity. Blamann, Ultima Thule, first winter ascent. Sum m iting on M arch 6, the Finnish climbers Sampsa Jyrkynen, Saku Korosuo, and Adrian Pollard made the first winter ascent of Ultima Thule, clim bing all seven pitches at A1 over a four-day period. On April 8 three Russian climbers, Sergej Beljajev, Aleksej Orudzjev, and Andrej Varvarkin, also clim bed U ltim a Thule. Although not a calendar winter ascent, it still involved harsh winter conditions. M a r t e n B lix t , Norway
