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  • Interview MW Democratic Republic of Congo (1, featured cut)

    The Democratic Republic of Congo now has its own Mountain Wilderness association

  • Canal Roya, upper part of the valley, with Midi d'Ossau in the background (featured cut).

    Why protect the Pyrenean mountains and the Canal Roya valley?

  • World Day of Glaciers 2026 (1, featured cut)

    World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 2026

  • Geotextile sheets in the Rhône Glacier (1, featured cut)

    The impacts of geotextile sheets on the Rhône Glacier and beyond

  • International Mountain Day 2025 (1, featured cut)

    Recording of the International Mountain Day 2025 event

  • From a dead lake, to the largest glacier outside polar regions (main picture, featured cut)

    From a dead lake, to the largest glacier outside polar regions

  • Open Olympics' third report (1, featured cut)

    Open Olympics’ third report on the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

  • International Mountain Day 2025 (1, featured cut)

    International Mountain Day 2025

  • Photo 3. CryoPyr team collecting samples on the Aneto glacier, featured cut.

    The last glaciers of Southern Europe, the Pyrenees

  • Changing face of Baltoro (1, featured cut)

    Thirty Years on Ice: A Witness to the Changing Face of the Baltoro

  • Pic de la Grave and Girose Glacier (featured cut)

    The future of the Girose Glacier

  • Girls in Action 2025 Press Release (1, featured cut)

    Girls in Action 2025!

  • Girls in Action 2025 (1, featured cut)

    Girls in Action 2025

  • Against off-road driving in the Icelandic Highlands (1, featured cut)

    A campaign against off-road driving in the Icelandic Highlands

  • Adamello and Corno Bianco, featured cut

    Protected areas in Italy: progress and setbacks

  • MoU with Pakistan (1, featured cut)

    The signing of the MoU with Pakistan

  • Heart of Asia (1, featured cut)

    From the heart of Asia, a wish that rises like the wind

  • Decline of Sheep and Goat Farming in the EU (1, featured cut)

    The Decline of Sheep and Goat Farming in the EU: A Win for Mountain Ecosystems?

  • Uphill and effortless (1, featured cut)

    Uphill and effortless

Interview MW Democratic Republic of Congo (1, featured cut)

The Democratic Republic of Congo now has its own Mountain Wilderness association

The Democratic Republic of Congo now has its own Mountain Wilderness chapter, joining other countries such as France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Catalonia and Pakistan. As part of Mountain Wilderness International (our umbrella organisation) and the International Working Group set up by MW France, MW France interviewed Keren Akatshi, Acting …

Francisco Sierra May 18, 2026 News Permalink
Canal Roya, upper part of the valley, with Midi d'Ossau in the background (featured cut).

Why protect the Pyrenean mountains and the Canal Roya valley?

The following paper was written in Spanish for the Canal Roya 2026 Pyrenean Congress held on 17-19 April 2026, in Jaca (Spain). You can read the original version here. GETTING OUT INTO THE MOUNTAINS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS AND NATURE Borja Antolín Tomás (President of Mountain Wilderness Spain), Alba Martínez Picó …

Francisco Sierra April 20, 2026 Discussion, Events Permalink
World Day of Glaciers 2026 (1, featured cut)

World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 2026

Sabine Rentschler, our Vice President, attended the event hosted by UNESCO and provides a brief summary of the two days below. At the UNESCO two-day international conference held in Paris on 18–19 March 2026, delegates marked both the World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 2026 – events that …

Francisco Sierra April 10, 2026 Discussion, Events Permalink
Geotextile sheets in the Rhône Glacier (1, featured cut)

The impacts of geotextile sheets on the Rhône Glacier and beyond

A petition from Mountain Wilderness Switzerland As you may recall, MW International has already addressed the Rhône Glacier in one of its blog posts as part of its Shrinking Glaciers Project. The Rhône Glacier in the canton of Valais, in southern Switzerland stretches from 2,197 to 3,600 m asl and covers …

Francisco Sierra February 28, 2026 Discussion, News Permalink
International Mountain Day 2025 (1, featured cut)

Recording of the International Mountain Day 2025 event

For those who missed our event to celebrate the International Mountain Day 2025, which took place on last December 11th, we publish here its recording.

Francisco Sierra February 1, 2026 News Permalink
From a dead lake, to the largest glacier outside polar regions (main picture, featured cut)

From a dead lake, to the largest glacier outside polar regions

By François Burgay, University of Baselfrancois.burgay@unibas.ch It was September. As soon as I stepped out of the jeep, I began walking across a vast, barren plain. Around me: a few shrubs and sand. Nothing else. It could have been any place on Earth, until a small detail caught my eye: …

Francisco Sierra January 31, 2026 Discussion Permalink
Open Olympics' third report (1, featured cut)

Open Olympics’ third report on the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

A few weeks before the opening of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, the civic network Open Olympics 2026 – coordinated by Libera and twenty partner NGOs, including Mountain Wilderness Italy – has released its third monitoring report (available only in Italian). The document examines what is currently accessible through official …

Francisco Sierra December 29, 2025 Discussion, News, sports Permalink
International Mountain Day 2025 (1, featured cut)

International Mountain Day 2025

On 11 December 2025, Mountain Wilderness International (MWI) celebrated IMD with a webinar entitled: “Glaciers: A Story Worth Preserving”, organised by Sabine Rentschler, Vice President of MWI, and Laura Moro, Governing Board Member, and featuring speakers from various fields, ranging from the arts to the scientific community. The webinar was …

Francisco Sierra December 21, 2025 Discussion, Events, News Permalink
Photo 3. CryoPyr team collecting samples on the Aneto glacier, featured cut.

The last glaciers of Southern Europe, the Pyrenees

By Jesús Revuelto (CryoPyr Research Group, https://cryopyr.csic.es/) and Borja Antolín Tomás (President of Mountain Wilderness Spain). Between northern Spain and southern France, …

Changing face of Baltoro (1, featured cut)

Thirty Years on Ice: A Witness to the Changing Face of the Baltoro

From Cleanup Expeditions to Climate Chronicles: My Four Treks to K2 Base Camp By Afzel Scherazi President of Mountain Wilderness Pakistan The …

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Want to see mountain nature better protected? Join us!

“Mountain wilderness” refers to any pristine, untouched mountain environment, where anyone can experience vast open spaces, silence, solitude, nature. “The value of wilderness therefore lies above all in its potential to stimulate a creative relationship between civilised man and the natural environment. It is the degree of authenticity of this relationship that gives a non-ephemeral meaning to adventure.”

This definition dates back to 1987, when the Biella theses, our manifesto, were written. They marked the birth of Mountain Wilderness.

Mountain Wilderness International (MWI) is the umbrella organisation of the national chapters of Mountain Wilderness. It facilitates communication and exchange among national chapters, coordinates and organises international projects and actions and officially represents the organisation in its relations with governments, authorities, international institutions and non-governmental organisations.

If you share our ideas and you wish to help us, please join a national chapter. Mountain Wilderness has chapters in a dozen countries.

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"Tropical glaciers are mostly found in the Andes, but also exist in East Africa and #Indonesia. They are rapidly losing mass as fossil fuel pollution heats the planet and melts the ice." ... See MoreSee Less

‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’

www.theguardian.com

Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining “eternal snow” in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its ice
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“Other mountainous regions of the world, such as the Andes or the Himalayas, ... have all experienced a steep decline in snow cover but not at the rate that we saw in the Greek mountains.” ... See MoreSee Less

Shrinking snowfall on Greece's mountains is provoking anxiety, altering the economy

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In Arachova, a Greek village reliant on snowmelt, water scarcity is becoming a concern
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The UN has adopted a resolution - brought by the Pacific island Vanuatu - backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change.While not legally binding, the court’s advisory opinion is already being used in climate litigation around the world and judges are starting to reference it in their climate-related rulings. ... See MoreSee Less

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution

www.theguardian.com

The US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia – some of the highest oil-producing nations and major greenhouse gas emitters – opposed the measure
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The U.S. Forest Service relinquished the public’s access to a century-old public trail in Montana’s Crazy Mountains "early last year as part of a land swap with the Yellowstone Club - an exclusive mountaintop retreat for the megarich located 100 miles away in Big Sky. (...)Perched more than 7,000 feet above sea level, the Yellowstone Club was built atop former public lands acquired through land exchanges with the U.S. Forest Service in the 1990s. It has since converted more than 15,000 acres outside Big Sky into one of the most exclusive communities on the planet. (...)Inside its gates, the Yellowstone Club has an 18-hole golf course, a concert venue, a movie theater, a dedicated fire department, hundreds of luxury homes and nearly 3,000 acres of private ski slopes. Initiation runs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and an undeveloped lot inside the gate has sold for as much as $10 million, according to Forbes." ... See MoreSee Less

Trump officials, billionaires and the quiet reshaping of America's public lands

www.motherjones.com

A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo now has its own Mountain Wilderness chapter, joining other countries such as France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Catalonia and Pakistan. As part of Mountain Wilderness International (umbrella organisation) and the International Working Group set up by MW France, Mountain Wilderness France interviewed Keren Akatshi, Acting President of Mountain Wilderness DRCongo, to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the association, learn about its initiatives, and explore potential avenues for collaboration.The English version of the interview is now available on our website. Link in the first comment.📷 Yohann Bouvier – MONUSCO | CC BY SA 2.0 ... See MoreSee Less

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mwildernessint Mountain Wilderness International @mwildernessint ·
31 Dec

Mountain Wilderness wishes you all...

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mwildernessint Mountain Wilderness International @mwildernessint ·
30 Dec

A few weeks ago, the third report on the Winter Olympics 2026 was released by the NGO network Open Olympics 2026. The text is only available in Italian, but here is a brief summary in English ⬇️⬇️⬇️
#MilanoCortina2026

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mwildernessint Mountain Wilderness International @mwildernessint ·
24 Dec

Whether you are celebrating or not, whether you are on top of a mountain or in a crowded city, we would like to thank all mountain lovers who have followed and supported us again this year in our fight in defence of the mountains. Happy Holidays to all of you!

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mwildernessint Mountain Wilderness International @mwildernessint ·
22 Dec

Want to know more about the webinar we held on #IMD2025 entitled "Glaciers: A Story Worth Preserving"?
While waiting for the video recording - to be published soon - read the article below!
It provides a brief summary and interesting insights #IYGP

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mwildernessint Mountain Wilderness International @mwildernessint ·
5 Dec

A first glimpse of what our event
"Glaciers: A Story Worth Preserving"
for #InternationalMountainDay 2025 will be like...
Next week, celebrate #IMD2025 with us!
To register, follow link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
#mountainsmatter #shrinkingglaciers

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