80 years of UIAA, looking back and looking forward by Claude Eckhardt
Editor’s Note: We asked Claude Eckhardt, former General Secretary of the UIAA – International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation to prepare an overview of highlights in the history of the UIAA since 1932. The views expressed are his alone. The creation and first decades Informal and friendly meetings between representatives of various countries took place with the creation of Alpine Clubs in the second half of the 19th century. But it was only in 1932 that the Club Alpin...