Mountain Wilderness

Girls in Action! The Swat Project, Pakistan

Here is a brief report by Carlo Alberto Pinelli on the “Girls in Action!” course that was held in August. “The course …

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, …

Deception at 4,061 m asl

For years now, we have been preparing to celebrate the 1st century of Italy’s oldest national park. “The Aosta Valley, and in …

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, …

Swat girls trained in environmental mountaineering

SWAT – GIRLS IN ACTION!

First course for women trekking guides How many years have passed since the day the young and brave Malala Yousafzai was shot …

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, …

International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development 2022

The online launching event of the International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development 2022, “Mountains Matter: for people and the planet” took place …

Call for participation in Swat 2022 project (1)

Call to apply for registration to take part in The Swat Project 2022

MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS INTERNATIONAL (Asian Desk) CAAI – Academic Alpine Club of Italy ISMEO – International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies MOUNTAIN …

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 …

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“Mountain wilderness” refers to any pristine, untouched mountain environment, where anyone can experience vast open spaces, silence, solitude, nature. “The value of wilderness therefore lies above all in its potential to stimulate a creative relationship between civilised man and the natural environment. It is the degree of authenticity of this relationship that gives a non-ephemeral meaning to adventure.”

This definition dates back to 1987, when the Biella theses, our manifesto, were written. They marked the birth of Mountain Wilderness.

Mountain Wilderness International (MWI) is the umbrella organisation of the national chapters of Mountain Wilderness. It facilitates communication and exchange among national chapters, coordinates and organises international projects and actions and officially represents the organisation in its relations with governments, authorities, international institutions and non-governmental organisations.

If you share our ideas and you wish to help us, please join a national chapter. Mountain Wilderness has chapters in a dozen countries.

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4 days ago

Last Sunday, 60 people gathered on the Girose glacier, in the French Alps, to denounce the wicked plan to extend the La Grave cable car across a remarkable natural area, already severely challenged by climate change.Observations of helicopter overflights and trampling of the area were proof that work had already begun, i.e. SATG, La Grave tourist development company, had started construction work without waiting for the verdict on the case, which will be issued in 2024.The Hautes-Alpes prefect must decide by September 26 whether or not the work on this area – that is home to a protected species (Androsace du Dauphiné) - falls within the scope of Art. L.411-1 of the French Environment Code, and thus whether continuing the work requires a derogation.If the Prefect does not give SATG formal notice by September 26 (which he did not), the associations will continue their fight by lodging a new appeal, this time against the French State.And here is the video of the people who climbed 1600m last Sunday from La Grave to defend the majestic Girose glacier at the foot of the Meije, threatened by the devastating cable car project.This is just a short summary of what is happening on the Girose glacier, one of the many examples of the devastating effects our glaciers are suffering at the hands of man, as if human-caused climate change weren't enough.Mountain Wilderness France ... See MoreSee Less

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4 days ago

Josep Sicart i Tauler, founding member of Mountain Wilderness Catalunya, which he had also chaired, and International Guarantor of MW International, has passed away. His whole life was devoted to mountain activities and protection. Read our tribute to Josep Adapted, translated version of the tribute written in French by Mountain Wilderness France ... See MoreSee Less

Tribute to Josep Sicart - Mountain Wilderness

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Josep Sicart i Tauler, a founding member of MW Catalunya and an International Guarantor of MW International, has passed away. His whole life was devoted to mountain activities and protection. When he ...

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6 days ago

Antarctic sea ice hits record low. 'Antarctica’s huge glacial ice expanse and the surrounding sea ice cover are critical to regulating the climate because it reflects the sun’s energy back to the atmosphere and space. In contrast, the dark ocean surface absorbs most of the sun’s incoming energy. So, less sea ice contributes to increasing temperatures – thus accelerating a vicious cycle.”There is growing concern about rapid changes in the cryosphere – melting sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers,” says Omar Baddour, chief of climate monitoring at WMO. “The drop in Antarctic sea ice this year has been really dramatic. What happens in Antarctica and the Arctic affects the entire globe,” he says.'#Antarctica #seaice #recordlow #climatecrisis World Meteorological Organization ... See MoreSee Less

Antarctic sea ice reaches lowest winter extent on record

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Antarctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent after the cold dark winter months. According to the preliminary data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the maximum extent remained...

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7 days ago

More than a thousand people gathered in Cortina last Sunday to say "no" to a new bobsled track. The old one was used for the 1956 Olympics and was closed in 2008 because of rising maintenance costs. A new bobsled track would cost more than 120 million euro and cause heavy environmental damage.Civil society, local committees, environmental NGOs, the Italian Alpine Club, a group of mountain writers and a few politicians took part in the protests. Mountain Wilderness will continue its efforts to limit the damage of a Winter Olympics that promises to be catastrophic from an environmental point of view.There are still millions of euros of public money at stake for speculation and concrete construction works that will affect Olympic territories with new roads and new ski links.#MilanoCortina2026 #Cortina #WinterOlympics #nonewbobsledtrack #IOC Mountain Wilderness Italia ... See MoreSee Less

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1 week ago

This weekend Mountain Wilderness Catalunya removed the remains of a plane that crashed in 1961 at the foot of Barbet peak in the Canigó massif, in the heart of the Pyrénées-Orientales. #grandsitecanigó Mountain Wilderness France ... See MoreSee Less

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29 Sep

Josep Sicart i Tauler, founding member of @MWildernessCat, which he had also chaired, and International Guarantor of MW International, has passed away. His whole life was devoted to #mountain activities & protection. Read our tribute to Josep at the link

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27 Sep

More than 1,000 people gathered in #Cortina last Sunday to say "NO" to a new #bobsledtrack that would cost more than € 120mln & cause heavy environmental damage. We will continue our efforts to limit the damage of a Winter Olympics that claimed to be the “most sustainable” ever

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27 Sep

#Antarctica sea ice hits record low. It is "critical to regulating the #climate because it reflects the sun’s energy back to atmosphere & space. In contrast, the dark ocean surface absorbs most of the sun’s incoming energy. So, less sea ice contributes to increasing temperatures"

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22 Sep

#MWGermany organised a protest action in #Platzertal 🇦🇹 -Ötztal Alps- against #Kaunertal power plant expansion. The planned dam would flood over 63,000 sqm of moorland & withdraw up to 80% water from one of the valleys in Tyrol receiving lowest rainfall
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19 Sep

Expedition parties of the #SwatProject have returned to Europe from #Pakistan. The project, initiated and led by MW International aims to publish a guidebook on Swat and establish a vast protected mountain area there #HKH #mountainsmatter