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The world’s largest climbing and mountaineering organisation and a leading sport academic centre are joining forces to collaborate on education programmes, research and personnel training.

International Ski mountaineering competitions, which include the World Cup and World Championship, will no longer be organised through the UIAA.

This year the Norwegian Alpine Club (NTK) is celebrating its hundredth  anniversary. The members have elected their first woman president to lead the club into the next century.

The International Academy of Sports Science and Technology (AISTS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, is offering a scholarship for one student for its internationally recognised postgraduate programme in sport management.

Best-selling author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson will speak at the Galen and Barbara Rowell Lecture Series.

N.N. Vohra, a member of the UIAA Management Committee and former president of the Indian Mountaineering Federation, has been appointed governor of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Union of Asian Alpine Associations, (UAAA), has launched its own website. The site, www.uaaa-asia.org, was presented in connection with the UAAA council meeting on May 29 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Statement: The UIAA has advised the Chinese Mountaineering Association that it cannot bring the UIAA flag to the summit of Mount Everest as part of the Olympic torch relay.

The UIAA is to become a Friend of the Rowell Award For the Art of Adventure. The award is given to an adventurer whose artistic passion illuminates the wild places of the world.