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01/10/2013
In Members Area, Mountaineering

Zdeněk Hrubý (1956 – 2013) loved the high mountains

Editor's Note: Last month, we received sad news of the death of Zdeněk Hrubý (1956 – 2013), president of the Czech Mountaineering Federation. Hrubý fell to his death in August 2013 while attempting a new route via the southwest face of Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak) with his companion Marek Holeček. Just last October, he joined the UIAA during its General Assembly in Amsterdam. The UIAA offers its deepest condolences to his family and friends. Zdeněk Hrubý...

24/09/2013
In Youth

The 2013 Global Youth Summit a huge, diverse success

One of the most diverse series of Global Youth Summit events ever held under the supervision of the UIAA Youth Commission ended last month with a new event, a rock climbing festival in Terelj, Mongolia, organized by the Mongolian National Mountaineering Federation. “We covered wide geography and we organized winter and summer actions in various disciplines: ice-climbing, rock-climbing, mountaineering,” said UIAA Youth Commission president Israfil Ashurly.  “There were camps, schools, seminars, expeditions and festivals in different...

10/08/2013
In Honorary Members

Claude ECKHARDT

2016 is proving to be another busy year for the UIAA Youth Commission and its series of Global Youth Summit (GYS) events ...

03/08/2013
In Featured, Members Area, Mountaineering

Nepal government to tighten regulations around climbing Mount Everest

The Nepal government announced this week it would set up a permanent government team at the base camp of Mount Everest which observers believe is a first step towards the tightening of regulations around the number of climbers on the mountain, and what they do on it. UIAA Honorary member Ang Tshering, the immediate past president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association which helped recommended the new rules also hopes it will limit the quest for “bizarre records” on...

31/07/2013
In Featured, Ice Climbing

Jaewook Kim (1970 – 2013) loved the thrill of competition and sport climbing

Editor's note: Sad news came to us from the Korean Alpine Federation about the death of Jaewook Kim, an international sport climbing judge with the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour.   The Korean climbing community and the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour lost one of its most passionate voices with the sudden death of Kim Jaewook earlier this month. “Jaewook was a pioneer in ice climbing and the development of ice climbing competition in Korea,” said Christine Pae,...

27/07/2013
In Access, Members Area

FEDME study connects marked paths and sustainable rural development

[embed]https://youtu.be/IvQks0UJqps[/embed]   The Spanish Federation of Mountain and Climbing Sports (FEDME) has released a study which looks at how hiking trails can be developed in an economical, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. "This research is pioneering in Europe,” said Juan J. Ibáñez Martin, the new head of the UIAA Access Commission and a member of the FEDME Access Commission which produced the study titled "Market Paths and Sustainable Rural Development.” "For the first time, we are trying to define...

25/07/2013
In Youth

Young climbers from the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) reach summit of Mount Ararat in Turkey

Editor's Note: This is an Italian Alpine Club news release from Milan, Italy dated 24 July 2013 On 23 July at 6:30 a.m., an Italian flag with the CAI Youth Alpinism symbol on it fluttered on the summit of Mount Ararat (5165 m – Anatolia – Eastern Turkey). It was the culmination of the successful ascent by the “CAI expedition to Mount Ararat” to mark the 150th anniversary of the Italian Alpine Club, an initiative which involved...

01/07/2013
In Featured, Members Area

Updated: Pakistan Alpine Club joins UIAA in condemning attack on Nanga Parbat mountaineers

Editor's note: The UIAA strongly condemned the senseless murder of 10 mountaineers at the base camp of Nanga Parbat on 23 June 2013. Not long after, Lt. Col (Retd) Manzoor Hussain, president of the Pakistan Alpine Club, a member federation of the UIAA wrote a heartfelt letter to president Frits Vrijlandt on 28 June 2013. Reprinted below is the letter followed by the original press release: Dear Mr President Compliments from Alpine Club of Pakistan. I write to you...

27/06/2013
In Featured, Safety

Update – UIAA Safety commission tackles via ferrata, bolts and rope standards in Chamonix, France

Editor's Note: The UIAA Safety Commission met recently in Chamonix, France. Commission president Dave Custer filed this update from the meeting. The UIAA Safety Commission completed work on several pending issues such as ropes and bolt standards and accelerated work on the time-sensitive subject of energy absorbing systems for via ferrata (VF-EAS) at this year’s meeting in Chamonix France. To accelerate the VF-EAS work, a fifth of the meeting was devoted to a joint UIAA Safety Commission/European...

27/06/2013
In Mountain Protection, Mountain Sustainability

Western University in Azerbaijan to sponsor Mountain Protection Award

Western University in Azerbaijan has come on board as a sponsor of the UIAA Mountain Protection Award and will organize an international mountain ecotourism conference in October, in the capital Baku, that will highlight the award. The sponsorship will go towards a cash prize of USD $5,000 for the winner of the inaugural award which is a stamp of authority for best practices to an organization or tour operator that has implemented/is implementing outstanding projects on...

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