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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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: …
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 …
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 …
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, the Pyrenees mountain range contains the last remaining vestiges of colder times, when low temperatures and ice reigned supreme, further strengthening the rock barrier separating Spain from France. …
From Cleanup Expeditions to Climate Chronicles: My Four Treks to K2 Base Camp By Afzel Scherazi President of Mountain Wilderness Pakistan The …
By Mathieu Crétet The Girose Glacier lies at the foot of La Meije, the iconic peak of the Écrins Massif. Its breathtaking …