The UIAA Executive Board recently confirmed the federation's calendar of meetings for 2022. Highlights include: UIAA General Assembly (GA) The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) will host the 2022 GA in Banff, Canada on Saturday 29 October. It will be the third time that the GA has been...
Lloyd "Kiwi" Gallagher was recently granted Honorary Membership of the New Zealand Alpine Club (NZAC). Lloyd made many ascents in New Zealand and was a member of a successful NZAC expedition to the Cordillera Huayhuash in Peru. However, it was primarily for his many contributions to...
Although there are still 290 days to go until the next summer Olympic Games in Tokyo take place - where 339 gold medals will be awarded - a member of the UIAA family attended his own Olympic medal ceremony on 2 October in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia....
The UIAA has updated its online members associations directory. The resource provides a rich array of information about each member association including links to dedicated articles and features, contact information, member social media channels and information about climbing in different member countries. Members are encouraged to provide the UIAA Office...
On 9 May 1869, German and Austrian mountaineers founded the Deutscher Alpenverein (DAV) - German Alpine Association in English - as a “bourgeois mountaineering association”. Over subsequent 150 years, the DAV, a founder member of the UIAA, has grown to become 'the world's largest national...
The UIAA Executive Board (EB) has held three meetings to date during 2019. Below is a summary of the main discussion points from each meeting. June, 2019 Delivery of reports from UIAA President Frits Vrijlandt’s visit to SportAccord, and...
It was with concern that the Mountain Club of South Africa (MCSA), the Confederation of African Mountain Clubs (CAMC) and the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA), came to hear of the proposal to build a cableway up Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. The construction of such...
The following article is provided by Mag. Franc Ekar, former President of PZS – Alpine Association of Slovenia, a UIAA member association. On 13 May, 1979 at 13.51 Nepalese time, two Slovenian members of the 'First Yugoslav Alpine Expedition Everest 1979', succeeded in ascending and...
This year’s Mountain Protection (MP) commission meeting took place in Baku, Azerbaijan following a formal and welcome invitation from Commission member and FAIREX representative Hussain Bagirov. The meeting took place at the new campus facilities of the Mountain Culture and Landscape Research Institute, Western Caspian...
A petition has recently been created to stop climbing bans across large areas of the Grampians National Park in Australia. This until further consultation can take place. The Grampians, located in the west of the State of Victoria, are a special and rugged range of hills,...