IPCC’s latest climate report, mountains and glaciers
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), …
Beijing 2022
When a lack of snow threatened the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck, the Austrian army rushed to the rescue, carving out 20,000 …
The Olympic Games and Sustainability
The next Winter Olympics are just around the corner, and as usual we question the alleged sustainability of such mega sporting events, …
International Mountain Day 2021
Once again, this year we had to give up the idea of holding an international event in person. But we have not …
COP 26 – It’s now or never. Act NOW!
There is no sign that we are growing back greener after the pandemic, as carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly recovering and are …
2026 Winter Olympic Games. Not in my name!
Mountain Wilderness International declares its full support for the rally to be held in Cortina on October 24 to open the world’s …
SWAT PROJECT 2021
The Swat Project moved its first steps in 2018. Since then, several environment friendly mountaineering courses were held with local trainees and …
LIVE AND LET DIE
Most of you probably imagined the summit of Mount Everest as a quiet, snowy peak far from civilisation. But then came a …
JOIN EARTH DAY 2021
April 22 Every year on April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. …
Uttarakhand disaster, HKH
Consensus is pointing more and more towards a landslide, a combination of rock and glacier ice, as the primary cause of the …