Heliskiing and the more recent practice of helibiking, while thrilling for adventure enthusiasts, pose significant environmental challenges that cannot be ignored. These activities disrupt fragile alpine ecosystems and wildlife, contribute to noise pollution and air traffic, pose a potential risk of avalanches and exacerbate climate change through excessive and avoidable …
On the eve of International Women’s Day, Mountain Wilderness Italy, Region Lazio, organised a public meeting in Rome to illustrate the initiatives of the Asian desk of Mountain Wilderness International in Pakistan. The event opened with short speeches by Mountain Wilderness Italy, ISMEO (International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies) …
The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, initially welcomed as an opportunity to relaunch tourism and the economy of the area while respecting the environment, now find themselves at the centre of a heated public debate on the appropriateness of holding major sporting events. One year before start, let us draw …
The United Nations designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation. Additionally, starting in 2025, March 21 will be celebrated annually as the World Day for Glaciers. This initiative aims to increase global awareness about the essential role of glaciers, snow, and ice in the climate system and the …
The European Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) entered into force on 23 May 2024 with the aim of strengthening EU’s critical raw materials capacities along all stages of the value chain, increasing resilience and promoting supply chain sustainability and circularity. The CRMA identifies a list of critical raw materials and a …
By Antoine Glory Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya or FGC, Catalonia’s public railway company, is spearheading the planning of a new infrastructure, which could transport up to two thousand people per hour within the Parc Natural de les Capçaleres del Ter i del Freser, home to the Vallter ski …
International Mountain Day 2024 Great things are done when women and mountains meet Where: Teatro Bruno Munari, Milan, Italy When: Monday, December 9, 2024, 7pm CET International Mountain Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2002. Every year since then, on 11 December, mountain lovers gather to …
Eighty years ago, Italy was at war, torn between Nazi-fascist occupation, the anti-fascist Resistance movement and the slow liberation of the territory that began with the Allied landings in Sicily. 1944 was a crucial year for the Second World War. For Italy it was a year full of events, of …
by Richard Goedeke We have images of the former might and splendour of the glaciers before our eyes and in our hearts. …
PRESS RELEASE April 27th marked the end of the ‘Swat Girls in Action!’ course organised in Pakistan by Mountain Wilderness International in …