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17/08/2018
In Featured, General Assembly, Media, Members Area, Mountaineering, Safety, UIAA

DISCUSSING ACCESS TO THE MOUNTAINS OF NEPAL

With eight of the fourteen world's highest mountain peaks located within its borders, Nepal is well known as one of the greatest destinations for climbing and mountaineering. From Everest to Kanchenjunga, its mountains have created legends and have inspired incredible feats of human endeavours. Over recent...

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15/08/2018
In Featured, Mountaineering, Safety, UIAA

Progress on Safety Standards for Avalanche rescue shovels and probes

In 2013, the UIAA Safety Commission (SafeCom) undertook the development of worldwide minimum standards for avalanche probes and shovels. Previously, formal requirements for avalanche shovels and probes only existed for participation in International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF) ski touring races, mainly with the aim to...

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11/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award

Study and monitoring of Chachacomani glacier by Servizio Glaciologico Lombardo

Many Bolivian glaciers, like Chachacomani, have never been studied and don't have a monitoring programme in place. However, they have a very significant role in understanding the entity of global and local climate changes, and above all, they represent an important water reserves....

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07/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Mountain Protection Award

Swat project by Mountain Wilderness International

The aim of the project is to contribute to the preservation of mountains by training young locals of the Swat region with the aim of publishing a handbook on hiking trails and “light” ascents of local mountains....

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07/08/2018
In Featured, Ice Climbing, UIAA, Under the Ice

Les Frères Ladevant: Always Climbing

Whether in the gym, on the walls of a World Cup venue or climbing in their beloved Alps, the Ladevant brothers are inseparable. Almost three years divide older brother Tristan, 20, and Louna, 17. In their two full seasons on the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour,...

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06/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Mountain Protection Award

San Juan Sustentable by Fondo de Acceso and ASEGUIM (Asociacion Ecuatoriana de Guias de Montaña)

San Juan Sustentable has the general objective of converting Ecuador's potentially biggest rock climbing area, and gateway to Chimborazo Volcano, into a sustainable recreation area....

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06/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Mountain Protection Award

Mountain protection worldwide through citizen science and volunteering by Biosphere Expeditions

Crowding in Slovakia’s national parks is starting to be a problem. Places like High Tatras, Pieniny or Slovak Paradise National Park are witnessing such an influx of tourism that they are considering new management techniques. ...

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03/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Mountain Protection Award

Crowding in mountain protected areas by Tatra Mountain Rescue Service – Voluntary Corp

Crowding in Slovakia’s national parks is starting to be a problem. Places like High Tatras, Pieniny or Slovak Paradise National Park are witnessing such an influx of tourism that they are considering new management techniques. ...

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03/08/2018
In Featured, Youth

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EVENT: MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL AND INTERNATIONAL ROCK CLIMBING IN FYR MACEDONIA

Held from 24-31 August in Demir Kapija, FYR Macedonia, the UIAA Youth Commission, in partnership with the Russian Mountaineering Federation, Macedonian Mountain Sport Federation and Macedonian Sport Climbing Federation is organising a youth mountain festival and international rock climbing class. The event is open to...

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01/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Climate Change, Mountain Protection Award

Yankee Ice by
 Sustainability Institute, University of New Hampshire

The Mount Washington Valley (MWV) in New Hampshire, United States, is a historically important location for the popularization and advancement of ice climbing, where piolet traction was employed to climb vertical ice walls as early as 1970. ...

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