From Cleanup Expeditions to Climate Chronicles: My Four Treks to K2 Base Camp By Afzel Scherazi President of Mountain Wilderness Pakistan The Karakoram has been my office, my temple, and my obsession for three decades. The trek to K2 Base Camp via the Baltoro Glacier is a journey I have …
By Mathieu Crétet The Girose Glacier lies at the foot of La Meije, the iconic peak of the Écrins Massif. Its breathtaking landscape was officially recognized by the French government in 1943 as a site of public interest for conservation. Since the 1970s, the glacier has been accessible via a …
Press Release On Sept. 11th, with a lively and well-attended ceremony organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Pakistani province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa at the Government Post Graduate College for Girls in Saidu Sharif, Swat, the advanced eco-friendly mountaineering course called SWAT AND CHITRAL GIRLS IN ACTION! came …
Girls in Action 2025 is a humanitarian mountaineering project dedicated to women (you may remember the all-women training held in 2024), which will take place in the Hindu Kush (Pakistan) in September 2025. This is the first edition of the training we are holding after signing the Memorandum of Understanding …
by Hugues Thiebault Ökum slóðann (Let’s Drive the Trail) is a new campaign launched in Iceland to raise awareness and protect the country’s fragile highland landscape from the harmful effects of illegal off-road driving, an issue that regularly comes up in the news, despite the practice being prohibited by the …
The EU’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (COM(2020) 380 final) aims to protect at least 30% of EU’s land area and 30% of its seas, with at least one third of these areas strictly protected; these targets have been incorporated into Italy’s National Strategy for Biodiversity to 2030 (Strategia Nazionale per …
A report by Carlo Alberto (Betto) Pinelli On 29 May, in one of the spacious halls of the Serena Hotel in Islamabad, the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Government held a formal ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the first ascent of Tirich Mir …
As he prepares to leave for Pakistan, where he will sign a Memorandum of Understanding between Mountain Wilderness International’s Asian Desk and the government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, establishing a framework for cooperation, Carlo Alberto (Betto) Pinelli finds time for an intimate and symbolic gesture. The Italy-Tibet Association asked him to share …
by Hugues Thiebault The European Union (EU) is witnessing a steady decline in sheep and goat farming, a trend confirmed by recent …
Heliskiing and the more recent practice of helibiking, while thrilling for adventure enthusiasts, pose significant environmental challenges that cannot be ignored. These …