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.
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: …
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 …
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 …
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, 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. …
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 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 …
The future of the Girose Glacier
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 …
Girls in Action 2025!
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
Girls in Action 2025 is a humanitarian mountaineering project dedicated to women (you may remember the all-women training held in 2024), which …
A campaign against off-road driving in the Icelandic Highlands
by Hugues Thiebault Ökum slóðann (Let’s Drive the Trail) is a new campaign launched in Iceland to raise awareness and protect the …