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. The new sights make us sad. What is particularly sad is that we now know that this decline is largely due to our collective economy based on the …
PRESS RELEASE April 27th marked the end of the ‘Swat Girls in Action!’ course organised in Pakistan by Mountain Wilderness International in collaboration with the International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies (ISMEO) and the Italian Academic Alpine Club (CAAI), as a joint venture with the Government Post Graduate College …
by Hugues Thiebault The fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP14) was hosted by the Government of Uzbekistan, in Samarkand, from February 12 to 17, 2024. The Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) …
by Hugues Thiebault On December 20, 2023, the European Commission tabled a proposal for a Council Decision aimed at downgrading the wolf’s status. This large carnivore is currently classified as a “strictly protected species” under the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats. The EU Commission …
Milano Cortina 2026, the most sustainable Olympics ever, with net zero-cost to Italy’s taxpayers! Guess what, the bill has already risen to at least 3.6 billion euro, with almost 3.0 billion euro coming from the state coffers, i.e. ultimately from taxpayers. Expected cost exceeds 5 billion euro. So far, the …
Located in the Aosta Valley, the Cime Bianche valley is one of the few remaining pristine areas in Italy’s Western Alps but …
We are pleased to inform you that next year we will be holding a second women-only basic mountain course in the Pakistani …