On Saturday evening representatives of the UIAA were honoured to organise a special ceremony ahead of the Lead Finals at the 2018 UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. During the ceremony, the Swiss Cancer Research Foundation were presented with a donation of £25,000 by Climbers...
Since entering the UIAA Mountain Protection Award platform in 2016, the Mountain Cultural Center, or CCM in its abbreviation in Spanish (Centro Cultural de Montaña), from Arequipa, Peru, has been making consistent and promising steps towards mountain protection, steadily fulfilling their goal of linking the...
Klicke hier für die Deutsche Version A global audience in excess of a quarter of a million people watched live coverage of a pulsating opening event of the 2018 UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour. Renowned as a magnificent arena for ice climbing the snow-covered Swiss resort...
The UIAA has awarded a Best Climbing Film prize at the Trento Film Festival for the past three years. The most recent winner - a 12-min documentary featured the 2016 expedition to the Himalayas of Nepal led by David Lama together with Austrian alpinists Hansjörg Auer...
Safety and sustainability, two of the three pillars of the UIAA, will be on the agenda of the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation at upcoming international tradeshows in China and Germany. Led by UIAA Safety Commission President Amit Chowdhury and Safety Label Administrator Stephanie Stettbacher, the...
Throughout its near 86 years of history, the UIAA has led a number of pioneering achievements in the world of climbing and mountaineering. From the creation of its Safety Label and Safety Standards in the 1960s through several groundbreaking ethical declarations over the course of...
The resort of Malbun, Liechtenstein hosted the first official ice climbing competition of 2018 with the staging of the annual UIAA Ice Climbing World Youth Championships from 5-7 January. The event provided an opportunity for the next generation of athletes to display their talent. The competition was...
The 2018 UIAA Ice Climbing World Youth Championships concluded earlier today in Malbun, Liechtenstein. The annual event was organised by UIAA member federation Liechtensteiner Alpenverein LAV Results can be found here. And here in PDF format. Photos can be found here. Photos copyright: UIAA/Michael Zanghellini Speed winners: Female U16 Olga Vylegzhanina (RUS) U19 Valeriia...
Visual loss in the wilderness setting is potentially fatal. Firstly it may be a warning sign of a serious systemic problem and secondly the patient may lose their functional independence and ability to respond to objective danger. The issues discussed in the UIAA MedCom paper #20, Eye Problems...
During the 2017 UIAA General Assembly, a new era was heralded for the UIAA Court. Pierre Humblet, already a Court member, succeeded Bettina Geisseler as Court President and was joined by three new elected delegates in Denis Poncelin, Franz Stämpfli and Marco del Zotto. The UIAA...