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, …
Mountain Wilderness International – General Assembly 2022
The General Assembly (GA) of Mountain Wilderness International took place last weekend – at the Les Sommets hut in Canton Vaud’s Jura, …
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, …
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 …
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 …