21/08/2018
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Featured, Mountaineering, Safety
Barun Bachaon (Save the Barun) by Barun Bachaon Local Coordinating Committee
The goal of the Barun Bachaon (“Save the Barun”) project is to build ecosystem and community resilience in Nepal’s Barun Valley.
Yankee Ice by Sustainability Institute, University of New Hampshire
The Mount Washington Valley (MWV) in New Hampshire, United States, is a historically important location for the popularization and advancement of ice climbing, where piolet traction was employed to climb vertical ice walls as early as 1970.
31/07/2018
30/07/2018
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Featured, Mountaineering, Skills
MOUNTAIN SKILLS: How to quickly protect a belay station
Always protect your belay station with a redirect point in order to limit the consequences of a lead fall. Ideally this should be a high anchor that is separate to the belay station, however this is not always possible. If the belay station is bomber, the lead climber...
12/07/2018
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING HIKING STICKS IN THE MOUNTAINS
The UIAA Medical Commission has produced a dedicated paper on the use of hiking sticks. It was first published in 2008 and is available in Czech, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Many hikers, mountaineers and climbers use telescopic (hiking) sticks because...
15/06/2018
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Featured, Mountaineering, Skills, UIAA
MOUNTAIN SKILLS: WHAT WEAKENS A ROPE
The latest extract from the UIAA Alpine Summer Skills Handbook focuses on the factors which weaken a rope and features as part of a chapter dedicated to Equipment. Limitations of a dynamic rope A wet rope will be heavier and harder to use. If your...
30/05/2018
A GLOBAL COMMITMENT TO CLIMBER SAFETY
Uniting representatives from global climbing equipment manufacturers and testing laboratories and national delegates from UIAA member associations, the annual UIAA SafeCom meet is a crucial opportunity for leading players in the field of mountain safety to discuss the current challenges facing the climbing world and...
28/05/2018
FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE VERY FIRST UIAA NEWSLETTER
The year was 1957. The month December. Written in French and produced on seven A4 sheets of stapled, typewritten paper, the first UIAA Bulletin was conceived. The Bulletin, produced regularly over the following four decades, was the forerunner for the newsletters and news releases produced...
25/05/2018