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06/05/2015
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Alpine huts across Canada now cheaper for UIAA member federations
An alpine hut run by the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) in Asulkan Valley, Rogers Pass, Glacier National Park The Alpine Club of Canada operates the largest network of backcountry huts in North America. Access to these family-friendly huts in alpine meadows, backcountry powder paradises and remote...
26/04/2015
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Tragedy in Nepal: UIAA federations members raise funds
Nepal Mountaineering Association President Ang Tshering Sherpa receives donation fromYong-Jin Choe, Korean Ambassador and In-Jeong Lee President of Korean Alpine Federation (Photo: NMA for UIAA) UIAA member federations reacted with horror and sorrow as news broke that once again, tragedy has struck the climbing season on...
05/10/2014
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Member spotlight: Freedom lies in the mountains for Turkish climber Tunc Findik
Tunk Findik: “For all their perils, the 8000 meter mountains had enriched my life beyond my wildest dreams” (Photo: Tunc Findik for UIAA ) Turkish climber and mountaineer Tunc Findik has just four more peaks to climb before he completes his quest to summit the world’s 14...
27/06/2014
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Nepal Himalaya issues being addressed by the Nepal Mountaineering Association
Delegates at the UAAA Meeting in Hong Kong (Photo: NMA for UIAA) Editor’s Note: UIAA Honorary Member Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has filed a report touching on a number of meetings and issues related to climbing and mountaineering in the...
16/04/2014
UIAA president and executive board member to participate in elite Swiss ski mountaineering race
Frits Vrijlandt and Thomas Kähr are passionate about all things climbing and mountaineering. Ski mountaineering, however, has a special place in the hearts of Vrijlandt, president of the UIAA and Kähr, a UIAA executive board member. That’s why both Vrijlandt and Kähr are in Switzerland...
15/03/2014
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Para-iceclimbing makes its debut in Ufa, Russia
Ice climbing may not be a part of the Sochi Paralympics which begin today but that didn’t stop a group of trailblazing Russians from showing how it might be one day. Witness what happened in Ufa, Russia, where the 2014 UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup...
11/10/2013
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Claude Eckhardt elected Honorary Member of the UIAA
French mountaineer Claude Eckhardt was elected Honorary Member of the UIAA – International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation for a lifetime of work dedicated to the promotion of mountaineering and protection of mountain regions around the world. In his acceptance speech at the General Assembly in...
10/08/2013
Claude ECKHARDT
2016 is proving to be another busy year for the UIAA Youth Commission and its series of Global Youth Summit (GYS) events
22/04/2013