Help us complete the Swat project
The Swat Project is heading towards its end. This project is being carried out with the help of the International Association for …
Climate change and the ski industry
July came with good news: the referendum in St. Leonhard im Pitztal (Tyrol, Austria) put an end to the planned Pitztal-Ötztal expansion, …
No more scrap metal, no more new via ferratas
What are via ferratas and equipped mountain routes? A via ferrata is a route on a mountain face equipped with steel cables, …
Marmolada glacier collapse: a climate warning
Sunday’s disaster on the Marmolada glacier is one example of Italy’s climate risk. Italy is suffering through a series of heat waves, …
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), …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Changing mountains in a changing world
International Mountain Day 2020 with Mountain Wilderness International December 11, 2020 – 7:00 -8:15 pm CET Mountain Wilderness International invites you to …