One of the greatest chess player of all time Garry Kasparov played in Split to 20 simultaneous chess board. Kasparov has won on all plates, and the last was defeated Ivan Vrankovic.
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‘The Show Must Go. Tomaz Humar from Slovenia successfully made a Solo Summit on Mt.Annapurna I (8091m) via South Face on 28 Oct 2007.

“Asian Trekking” is very pleased and proud to announce that our great friend and popular mountaineer Mr. Tomaz Humar from Slovenia successfully made a Solo Summit on Mt.Annapurna I (8091m) via South Face on 28 Oct 2007. The name of the expedition is Humar Solo Annapurna I Expedition 2007,” read the late night message from Ang Tshering Sherpa to ExplorersWeb. “The summit news have been conveyed by Tomaz Humar through his satellite phone from the mountain. The above expedition is handled by Asian Trekking (P) Ltd.” (MountEverest.net) “Asian Trekking is very pleased and proud to announce that our great friend and popular mountaineer Mr. Tomaz Humar from Slovenia successfully made a Solo Summit on Mt.Annapurna I (8091m) via South Face on 28 Oct 2007. The name of the expedition is Humar Solo Annapurna I Expedition 2007,” read the late night message from Ang Tshering Sherpa to ExplorersWeb. “The summit news have been conveyed by Tomaz Humar through his satellite phone from the mountain. The above expedition is handled by Asian Trekking (P) Ltd.” Behind the curtain, in the pantomime If the report is confirmed, this would not only be an incredible feat, but also a s sweet revenge for Tomas, who got in trouble on Nanga Parbat in 2005. Attempting a new route on the sheer Rupal face, climbing alone in very bad conditions, Tomaz got stuck in a labyrinth of Ice and unsettled snow, unable neither to climb further up nor to descend due to heavy snowfall and avalanches. He was trapped on a ridge with snow slides running around him, crouched in a tiny snow-hole for Right before the expedition to Nanga, Tomaz had also lost his main sponsor. The Rupal face climb was important to him. But now, many in the climbing community criticized him for getting himself in such a mess, and putting rescuers’ life at stake. While he was lucky to come down alive; his critics won the Piolet d’Or for their climb on the same mountain. “They didn’t even try to help me,” Tomaz said. “We didn’t know,” they replied. “Behind the curtain, in the pantomime/I can fly – my friends/I’ll face it with a grin/Im never giving in/On – with the show -/Ill top the bill, Ill overkill/I have to find the will to carry on… (‘The Show Must Go On’ by Queen) Behind the curtain on Annapurna 1, Tomas might have showed the world that he can fly again. Tomaz Humar was born on February 18, 1969 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He currently lives in Stranje and works for the Customs Office in Ljubljana. He has been a member of the Kamnik branch of the Alpine Club since 1987, and completed 1500 ascents, 70 of them first ascents at home and abroad. Tomaz most remarkable climbs have been tough climbs at slightly lower altitudes: New routes on Ama Dablam, Lobuche, Nuptse West, Dhaulagiri (no summit), Aconcagua South face, etc.

IN RESCUE MISSIONS AGAIN
Kornati fire claims  eleven fire fighters died

ZAGREB, Croatia — A firefighter critically injured last week while battling a blaze on Kornati island died on Monday (September 3rd). Seven other firefighters died there, trapped by the flames. Three remain hospitalised in critical condition. Prosecutors have charged a 20-year old employee of the Kornati National Park with starting the deadly blaze, by tossing a burning cigarette butt into dry grass. (Vecernji List – 04/09/07; HRT, RTRS, Javno, AP – 03/09/07) .

I joined helicopter rescue team to help firemans. We found them 2 and half hours after we recived call for help: But we have not recived any information about dead or injuries.
Six firemen died and seven were injured – four critically – Thursday in what was described as the worst disaster in Croatia’s firefighting history. The firefighters were trapped while trying to extinguish a wildfire on Kornat island, on Croatia’s central Adriatic Coast. The island is the largest in the Kornati archipelago of 150 islands, covering 320 kilometres square of sea off Zadar, 300 kilometres south of Zagreb.
I was head of the mountain rescue service, and I told national television HTV that the entire unit was trapped in an area covered by tall, dry grass. Than I said the area was uninhabited criticized the decision to send the men there.
It is the worst tragedy I ever saw, and I have has been engaged in rescue operations over more than two decades.

More about Kornati tragedy: http://injuries
www.firefightingnews.com/article.cfm?articleID=37159

More about rescuing: www.gss.hr

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Josko Bozic has dief in tragic eccident near town of Makarska in Croatia.

After 3 days has died his wife Ana.

www.jutarnji.hr

http://www.24sata.hr/index.php?cmd=show_clanak&tekst_id=19839&context=naslovnica&web_page_id=main_page

7 base jumpers made first jump in to the unique Red Lake, near Imotski i Croatia.

I was near to make a documentary movie about this historical event

Read more (Croatian): www.jutarnji.hr

The Arctic is mostly a vast, ice-covered ocean (which is sometimes considered to be a northern sea of the Atlantic Ocean) surrounded by treeless, frozen ground. The Siberi in Arctic circle is one of the moust deserted area on the Earth.

Siberia (Russian: Сиби́рь, Sibir; Tatar: Seber) is a vast region of Russia constituting almost all of Northern Asia and comprising a large part of the Euro-Asian Steppe. It extends eastward from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and southward from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan and the borders of both Mongolia and China. All but the extreme south-western area of Siberia lies in Russia, and it makes up about 56% of that country’s territory.

Filming in tundra.
The deserted and seemingly endless potholed road to Lovozero cuts through a landscape of vast lakes and forests that has changed little since the nomadic Sami people arrived on the Kola peninsula some 5,000 years ago.

The vast arctic tundra provided good grazing for their reindeer, so they quickly fanned out across invisible borders to the west, into neighbouring Norway, Finland and Sweden. Over time, borders were drawn and strict controls were introduced. Then, during the Cold War, the border between Russia and the West was closed. Contact between Russian and Nordic Sami people was completely cut off.

Much of the displacement was caused by a steady expansion of industry, forestry and mining, and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of workers from other parts of the Soviet Union – many of them arriving as forced labourers in Gulag camps.

Then, during the Cold War, Sami coastal fishermen were ordered to move away from the shores of the Barents Sea, which is currently littered with secretive navy installations, and reindeer herders were forced away from a 200-mile exclusion zone that ran along the Cold War frontier.

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