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
Université des Montagnes Master Engineer and Doctorate. Degrees offered: Note: UdM is the first institution in Cameroon to offer training in Biomedical Engineering, and Mathematics and Computer Science Applied to Finance and Actuarial sciences. Recently opened in October 2016. UdM has an application hospital for its medical sector: The "Clinique Universitaire des Montagnes" (CUM). Université des Montagnes Université des Montagnes is a private, non-profit university in Bangangté in the West Region of Cameroon, founded in 2000. The non-profit organization that later became Université des Montagnes was founded in 1994 by the Academy for Educational Development (AED). The university's first classes began in October