Piolet d'Or took place in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (France) and Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley (Italy) on the 24th and 25 April 2009. The 2009 awardees were: For 2008, the Piolet D'Or was canceled. The co-founders of the award decided to initiate a new process for selecting the nominees and winner, and the process could not be completed on a timely basis for 2008. The 2007 Piolet d'Or was awarded on January 26, 2007 in Grenoble, France. The winners were: Other finalist were: Piolet d'Or The Piolet d'Or (, French for "Golden Ice Axe") is an annual mountaineering award given by the French magazine
D-flat major key of D-flat major. Choral writing explores D-flat infrequently, a notable example being Robert Schumann's "Requiem", Op. 148, and Gabriel Fauré's "Cantique de Jean Racine". Vincent d'Indy's String Quartet No. 3, Op. 96, is in D-flat. D-flat major D-flat major (or the key of D-flat) is a major scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B and C. It is enharmonically equivalent to C-sharp major. Its key signature has five flats. The D-flat major scale is: \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { </score> Its relative minor is B-flat minor. Its parallel minor,