From 8 to 10 of October 2004 the Bulgarian town Sliven was host of the Fourth International Mountain Film Festival. The vice-mayor of Sliven Dr. Penko Penkov was on the opening and closing ceremony. For the second time such event was held in Sliven. (Two festivals were held in town of Troian). Hopefully this would become a tradition as the organizers promised.

On Saturday, October 9-th 2004, o­n Shaan Kaya, the Crimea, Ukraine, at the big crowd of people the presentation of a new multi-pitch route "Atlant M" took place.

Bryan Law, Ivo Ninov and Gab McNeely spent over 300 hours working to clean the route. Over 200 fixed pieces of gear were removed, weighing approximately 30 pounds.

Climbing Guide organizes again photocontest on climbing theme. There will be a lot of rewards.

To All Filmmakers and Mountain Lovers

It gives us great pleasure to inform you about Sliven International Mountain Film Festival.
The Festival, being held in Sliven, is the first of its kind in Balkan region, home to the very nice mountains.

In some days, on 1-st of August 2004, starts Deep Water Soloing & Boulder open meeting, in traditional place for this type of climbing in Bulgaria - Kamen Briag (Stone Beach).

George Dijmarescu, Everest summiter, writes about a Bulgarian, who climbed mt Everest o­n the 20 of May. There is a wrong opinion in Bulgaria and in the world that this mountaineer was Hristo Hristov. In fact that was Doychin Boyanov.

This is well known document "Recommendations for redevelopment and first ascents of rock climbing routes in alpine regions. Here with foreword by Ian McNaught-Davis, UIAA President, and included comments and articles.

“Stretch your limits, lift your spirits and aim for the top”

Adopted by the Future of Mountain Sports Conference, Innsbruck, September 6 – 8, 2002.

The Bulgarian expedition to Mount Everest 8848 m will depart o­n 29-th of March from Sofia. It will take total of 64 days, or 62 from Kathmandu  to Kathmandu. Here is day-by-day schedule.

On occasion of New Year holidays Climbing Guide opens in the site new <font color=red>online store Climbing e-Shop!

Nikola Levakov recounts the “Thalay Sagar 2003” expedition and shares his experience of the climb to the summit. We present a photo on which are marked the new route and the bivouacs as well as some of the other routes.

Yesterday, 12 October 2003, at 12:47 Hristo Hristov and Nikola Levakov succeeded to climb their big target – new route o­n North-west face of Thalay Sagar.

Contains brief and full statistics from the Word Youth Climbing Championship, 18-21 September 2003, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

The tenth World Youth Championship in V.Tarnovo finished. <font color=red>Photos!

From 19th to 21st of September the Bulgarian town Sliven was host of the 3rd International Festival of the Mountaineering Movies. All events went according the program (this program is available here in Climbing Guide).

Climbing Guide is publishing here all intermediate and final results from the World Youth Championship in Competition Climbing in V.Tarnovo.

Yesterday, 18-th September, in 21:00 in Interhotel V.Tarnovo it was held the technical conference of the World Youth Championship. Currently are going qualifications in all categories in difficulty.

In press-club "Bulgaria" in Sofia it was reported World Youth Climbing Championship in V.Tarnovo from 18-th to 21-th of September. Read here haw to go, what and when to see, and all the rest for the event.

<font color=#000000>Climbing Guide organizes competition for the best photo. The topic is "Climbing and Nature". There will have rewards.