First course for women trekking guides How many years have passed since the day the young and brave Malala Yousafzai was shot by Islamic fundamentalists? Today, in that very same Swat valley, surrounded by the southernmost peaks of the Himalayan mountains, a small but significant revolutionary event is about to …
The General Assembly (GA) of Mountain Wilderness International took place last weekend – at the Les Sommets hut in Canton Vaud’s Jura, with an amazing view on Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc – with participants from Catalonia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. It was the first GA in presence …
The online launching event of the International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development 2022, “Mountains Matter: for people and the planet” took place on April 28, 2022. The global high-level event officially launched the celebrations of the Year and was moderated by Jake Norton, Mountain Partnership Goodwill Ambassador, climber, photographer and …
MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS INTERNATIONAL (Asian Desk) CAAI – Academic Alpine Club of Italy ISMEO – International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS PAKISTAN Those of you who are used to visiting the website of Mountain Wilderness International already know the aims of The Swat Project. The Swat is a …
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, created by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization in 1988), was released on 28 February. 270 authors from 67 countries assessed the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and human communities in the Working Group II report of …
When a lack of snow threatened the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck, the Austrian army rushed to the rescue, carving out 20,000 blocks of ice from the mountain side and transporting them down to the luge and bobsleigh tracks. They also carried 40,000 cubic metres of snow to the Alpine …
The next Winter Olympics are just around the corner, and as usual we question the alleged sustainability of such mega sporting events, but this time we do so on the basis of scientific data. Researchers at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, recently reviewed the social, environmental and economic sustainability of 16 …
Once again, this year we had to give up the idea of holding an international event in person. But we have not given up the idea of coming together in a symbolic way. The result is the video we published on our social media on International Mountain Day, a collection …
There is no sign that we are growing back greener after the pandemic, as carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly recovering and are …
Mountain Wilderness International declares its full support for the rally to be held in Cortina on October 24 to open the world’s …