2011 Award
The Piolet d'or 2011 took place in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (France) from 16 to 17 April 2011.
The winners were
- Yasushi Okada and Katsutaka Yokoyama on the Japanese Mount Logan expedition (south-east face of Mount Logan).
- Sean Villanueva, Nicolas and Olivier Favressse (Belgium), Ben Ditto (USA) and Bob Shepton (UK) for the "Greenland Big Walls" expedition.
- Doug Scott was awarded the Lifetime Contribution Award.
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