27/03/2018
16/03/2018
Mountain Skills: The most common group dynamics
The latest in our series of extracts from the UIAA Alpine Skills Summer handbook focuses on group dynamics and forms part of a chapter dedicated to ‘Leading a Group’ which tackles the way people behave and relate to others in an exacting environment which can elicit unexpected...
09/03/2018
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Youth
Youth Report: 2018 UIAA Ice climbing camp in Guillestre
The first UIAA Global Youth Summit Event of 2018 was held in Guillestre, Hautes-Alpes, France from 18-24 February. It took the form of an ice climbing camp. The following report is courtesy of UIAA Youth Commission member and event organiser Christian Biard (FFCAM) and translated...
06/03/2018
Mountain Skills: How to navigate in poor visibility
Orienting yourself in the mountains in good weather poses few problems for the attentive navigator. It is, however, quite different with reduced visibility. In a thick fog, even the most seasoned mountaineer has no point of reference. Although you can navigate in bad weather with a solid...
28/02/2018
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Featured, Media, Members, Members Area, UIAA
UIAA Newsletter, February 2018, now published
The UIAA Newsletter for February 2018 is now available to view. The UIAA Alpine Summer Skills guide is now available worldwide as a digital download. In the field of mountain safety, the UIAA and the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) publish recommendations related to The Chadar Trek. The use...
22/02/2018
INTRODUCING THE
UIAA ALPINE SUMMER SKILLS SERIES
The UIAA Alpine Skills Summer guide was first published in 2015. Produced in collaboration with the Petzl Foundation, the guide and has been well received worldwide and is currently available in five languages. To mark the launch of a digital version of the publication, the UIAA... 
05/02/2018
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Featured, Media, Mountaineering
The Ogre –
Read the dramatic story of the first ascent
Towards the end of 2017, legendary British mountaineer and UIAA Management Committee member Doug Scott released The Ogre, a two-part biography documenting his and Chris Bonington’s dramatic first ascent and fight for survival on the Ogre in Pakistan’s Karakoram in 1977. Predating satellite phone communication, when... 
29/01/2018
A GIANT OF THE HIMALAYA
Elizabeth Hawley, the renowned journalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions, passed away in Nepal on Friday 26 January. On sharing the news, Ang Tshering Sherpa, UIAA Honorary Member and Chairman of the Climate Alliance of Himalayan Communities (CAHC) wrote: “The worldwide mountaineering community has lost...
29/01/2018
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Youth
REGISTRATIONS OPEN FOR 4TH IRAN SUMMER YOUTH CAMP
The fourth edition of the popular Iran Youth Summer Climbing Camp will take place in June 2018. The youth camp in Iran, organised by the UIAA Youth Commission in collaboration with UIAA member federation the Iran Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Federation (IMSCF), is designed for...
15/01/2018