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01/11/2021
In Featured: Sustainability, Media, Members Area, Mountain Protection, Mountain Protection Award, Mountain Sustainability, UIAA

UIAA MOUNTAIN PROTECTION AWARD WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED ON 3 DECEMBER

A special UIAA Mountain Network Series webinar, the fourth of 2021, will be held on Friday 3 December to announce the winner of the 2020-2021 UIAA Mountain Protection Award (MPA). Organised with the support of the Bally Peak Outlook Foundation, established in 2020 by Swiss luxury brand Bally to preserve the mountains and their communities, the webinar will be part of the lead-up to Saturday 11 December’s annual International Mountain Day. A total of 24 projects operational...

27/10/2021
In Access, Bally, Featured, Featured: Members, General Assembly, Media, Members Area, Mountain Medicine, Mountain Protection, Mountain Protection Award, Mountain Qualification Label, Mountain Sustainability, Mountaineering, Respect the Mountains, Safety, Standards, Statements, UIAA, UIAA Covid-19, Youth

UIAA GENERAL ASSEMBLY REVIEW 2021

The UIAA – International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation – held its annual General Assembly from 22-23 October. For the second year running the event was held online. A total of 128 delegates from over 71 member associations representing 56 countries attended. The 2021 General Assembly marked a year since Peter Muir (Alpine Club of Canada) became the federation’s 14th President. Muir, head of a seven-strong Executive Board (EB), assessed the progress made over the past twelve...

15/10/2021
In General Assembly, UIAA

ABOUT THE 2021 UIAA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The 2021 UIAA General Assembly will be held on 22-23 October. The event will take place online and spread over two days. All voting matters take place on Saturday 23 October. The final agenda can be found here. The final programme can be found here. The event will also be broadcast live on YouTube (see below) and a review of the GA will be published shortly after the event. Day 1 of the UIAA General Assembly: Day 2 of the UIAA...

14/10/2021
In Featured: Members, General Assembly, Members Area, UIAA

UIAA VOLUNTEER SERIES: GREG MOSELEY

An integral part of the UIAA Management Committee (MC) throughout the past five years, Greg Moseley’s term both as President of the Mountain Club of South Africa and as a Continental Representative for Africa on the MC recently came to an end. Sharing his thoughts on a significant career as a 'journeyman climber', on the MCSA, climbing in Africa and the role of the UIAA, Greg Moseley features as the latest profile in the UIAA...

12/10/2021
In Featured, Media, Members Area, Mountaineering, Rock Climbing, UIAA, Youth

SAVE THE DATE: MOUNTAIN WOMEN WEBINAR

The UIAA will host its third Mountain Network Series event of 2021 on Wednesday 17 November. The topic will be ‘Mountain Women’ and the webinar built around content from Herstory, a series of short films about the lives of different female climbers. The 90-minute webinar will be held at 19:00 CET (find your time link) and includes panel discussions covering the following topics: The making of Herstory - inspiration behind the films, choosing the profiled climbers, breaking stereotypes Women Mountain...

01/10/2021
In Featured: Moutaineering, Mountain Qualification Label, Safety, UIAA

Macedonian edition of UIAA Alpine Skills Summer Handbook published

After almost two years of translation, editing, proof reading, photo research, graphic design and printing, the Mountaineering Federation of North Macedonia (FPSM), in cooperation with the UIAA and with technical support from The Petzl Foundation, has published the Macedonian language version of the UIAA Alpine Skills: Summer Handbook. On 27 September it was officially made available to Macedonian mountaineers, climbers and alpinists. Currently, the Handbook has been translated into 12 languages. It is available to members...

28/09/2021
In Youth

YOUTH CLIMBERS ENJOY ROMANIAN SUMMER CAMP

The following report is courtesy of Cristina Cucu, UIAA Youth Commission member from the Romanian Alpine Club (CAR): Between 19-23 August, the CAR Bucharest branch organised a summer camp in the heart of Buila Vânturarița National Park at Cheia Lodge. The camp was supported by members of the UIAA Youth Commission. All 23 participants, including five mentors, were Romanian and members of the club. This location was chosen as it abounds with a variety of splendid panoramas,...

28/09/2021
In Featured: Members

Let’s Talk about Mountains: A cinematic approach to North Korea

What do you think of when you hear "North Korea"? - A film team from the Swiss Alpine Museum toured the mountainous North Korean peninsula during the brief phase of the inter-Korean thaw in 2018-19. As the Swiss Alpine Museum writes: The team climbed mountain peaks with hiking groups, visited school classes, looked over the shoulder of artists, traveled to farms in the hilly province and stopped at the largest North Korean ski resort. Cinematic micro-stories tell...

17/09/2021
In Featured, Ice Climbing, Media, Statements, UIAA

AXES AT THE READY: RETURN OF THE UIAA ICE CLIMBING WORLD TOUR

Please note that this article was originally published on 17 August 2021 and has been amended to reflect the following updates confirmed on 17 September 2021. The UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup scheduled to be held in Vail, Colorado, USA has been postponed until 2023. The UIAA Ice Climbing European Cup in Oulu, Finland has been upgraded to a European Championships featuring both a Senior and Youth event. The UIAA Ice Climbing European Cup in...

14/09/2021
In Featured, Mountaineering, Safety, Skills, UIAA

UIAA RELEASES STANDARD 157:
AVALANCHE RESCUE PROBES

Years of extensive research and development by the UIAA Safety Commission continue to come to fruition. In July, the UIAA released Standard 130 Load Sharing Devices and has recently published a Standard dedicated to Avalanche Rescue Probes, Standard 157, the first of its kind worldwide. Following six years of hard work, the Standard was officially approved at the UIAA Safety Commission Plenary Session in June 2021. Since the 1960s the UIAA Safety Commission has developed standards for...

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