The first Festival " Piolet d'Or Asia " runs in Seoul (South Korea) on November 8-11.

Nominees:

1. Urubko-Samoilov, Manaslu, new route in Alpine style.

2. Gu Eun-su, 36, and Yu Sang-beom, 29, (South Korea) Talay Sagar, 6904 m (Indian Himalayas). North ridge.

3. Katsutaka Yokoyama and Fumitaka Ichimura (Japan), new route " Before the dawn" (V 5.9 M6 AI4+), openned on Broken Tooth North Face, Alaska, in April 2006: a 23-pitch mixed route of average complexity may become "classic"

At the festival Denis Urubko and Sergey Samoilov are going to show their film " 5 dreams of Manaslu" with subtitles in English.