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14/12/2017
In Featured, Mountain Protection, Mountain Sustainability

UIAA PRESENCE IN ROME FOR MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP GLOBAL MEETING

UIAA Executive Board member Pier Giorgio Oliveti, UIAA Mountain Protection Commission President Dr Carolina Adler and UIAA Honorary Member Ang Tshering Sherpa represented the International Climbing and Mountaineering federation at the fifth Mountain Partnership Global Meeting, on 11-13 December at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FOA) of the United Nations headquarters in Rome, Italy. The meetings which coincided with Monday’s International Mountain Day (IMD) focused on the challenges and opportunities in sustainable mountain development and helped...

13/12/2017
In Featured, Members Area, Mountaineering

Alpine Club of Canada’s International Mountain Day gift

To mark 2017's International Mountain Day, the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) offered a very generous gift to the mountaineering community - free access to the 110-year archive of the Canadian Alpine Journal. The Canadian Alpine Journal has been the flagship publication of the ACC for 110 years. It has been the permanent record of alpine ascents in Canada and by Canadians abroad since 1907. The ACC is pleased to offer the entire 110 years of the CAJ...

12/12/2017
In Featured, Ice Climbing, Members Area

ANGELIKA RAINER AND LOUNA LADEVANT MAKE EARLY STATEMENTS

Conceived as a means to provide athletes with even more opportunities to climb in a competitive environment, the early rounds of the inaugural UIAA Ice Climbing European Tour have proved extremely popular. On 3 December, Domžale, Slovenia officially opened the UIAA Ice Climbing season with 45 athletes from 12 countries gracing a well received competition. Italy’s Angelika Rainer, twice UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour winner in lead, and second overall during the most recent season, claimed...

08/12/2017
In Featured, Media, Members Area, Mountain Protection, Mountain Protection Award, Mountain Sustainability, Respect the Mountains, UIAA

A SIGNIFICANT DAY, A SIGNIFICANT YEAR

Monday marks International Mountain Day (IMD), an annual occasion since the United Nations General Assembly designated the 11 December an opportunity to ‘create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build alliances that will bring positive change to mountain people and environments around the world.’ As the international federation for climbing and mountaineering and with sustainability as one of its three core pillars, the UIAA, through...

06/12/2017
In Featured, Mountaineering

Winners of the 12th Piolets d’Or Asia Awards

The 12th Piolets d’Or Asia Awards & 10th Golden Climbing Shoe Awards were held in Seoul, Korea on 3 November, 2017. The founding vision of the Piolets d’Or Asia Awards is to encourage and stimulate Asian alpinists who achieved pure and visionary climbing. The 12th Piolets dor Asia Award The 12th Piolets dor Asia Award was awarded to Kazuya Hiraide & Kenro Nakajima. On 22 August, 2017 Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima completed a new route up the...

03/12/2017
In Featured, Media, Members Area, Mountain Protection, Mountain Sustainability, Mountaineering, UIAA

UIAA AND IFMGA SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

UIAA Mountain Protection Commission President Dr Carolina Adler attended the General Assembly of the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations (IFMGA) in Kathmandu on Friday 1 December 2017 to both join in proceedings and be present at the inauguration of the IFMGA's very own Environmental Commission, which was established earlier in the year by its founding members Dr Leif Inge Magnussen (IFMGA Guide and President, Norwegian Mountain Guides Association), Mr Mark Charlton (IFMGA Guide and member of the British Mountain...

01/12/2017
In Members Area, Recalls, Safety

Omega Pacific Recalls Carabiners Due to Risk of Injury or Death

The information below concerns a recall from Omega Pacific. Full story here. Name of product: Carabiners Hazard: The carabiner can break while in use, posing a risk of injury or death to the user. Remedy: Refund Replace Recall date: November 21, 2017 Recall number: 18-041 Recall Details Description: This recall involves six models of Omega Pacific G-FIRST series aluminum carabiners. They are typically used to allow ropes and harnesses to be linked together. “Omega-17 UL Classified USA” is printed on the front and “Meets NFPA 1983 17ED MBS kN 40...

01/12/2017
In Media, Members Area, UIAA

UIAA Newsletter, December 2017 now published

The UIAA Newsletter for December 2017 is now available to view. During the month of November, the UIAA played a leading role in mountain sustainability discussions at both the International Federation Forum in Lausanne and in Bonn during the 23rd United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – COP23. Ahead of 11 December's International Mountain Day (IMD) titled 'Mountains under Pressure: climate, hunger, migration', the UIAA invites its member federations to share news of their IMD activities with...

28/11/2017
In Featured, Mountain Medicine, Mountaineering, UIAA

APPRECIATING THE FULL PICTURE

The second in our series exploring a profound human passion for the mountains profiles Jason Williams, New Mexico-based mountain rescuer. Jason's skills and experience cover a wide range of mountain rescue sectors. He is a nationally-registered paramedic and obtained his Mountain Emergency Medicine and Rescue Diploma under the shadow of the Matterhorn in the Alpine Rescue Centre, Zermatt. Today, he is Director of the International Mountain Medicine Center at the University of New Mexico where he...

27/11/2017
In Access, Featured, Members Area

ACCESS COMMISSION PROVIDES GUIDANCE IN IRAN

In the days following the 2017 UIAA General Assembly, a dedicated workshop focusing on mountain access was held at the headquarters of the National Olympic Committee of Iran in Tehran. The workshop titled ‘Educative Access’ united members of the Iran Mountaineering and Sport Climbing federation, national executives and security and rescue authorities. Access Commission President Juan Jesús Ibáñez Martín (FEDME) represented the UIAA and defined the objectives and plans for this new task group. Martín draw on the UIAA’s...

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