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31/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Culture and Education, Mountain Protection Award

Let’s protect our Edenes in Colombia by Fundación Edenes de Colombia

Our goals include bringing the outdoor community together in order to promote environmental awareness, waste management and good outdoor practices....

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31/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Culture and Education, Mountain Protection Award

Project Cordillera by Project Cordillera

Project Cordillera is an award-winning social enterprise that connects adventure tourism with high mountain communities. Beginning life in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú, and having recently started working in the Cordillera Central, Colombia, we are a group of passionate climbers and social entrepreneurs....

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31/08/2018
In Mountain Qualification Label, Safety Label, Safety Standards, Standards

EAWS announces changes to avalanche standards

EAWS (European Avalanche Warning Services) have introduced a standard for typical avalanche problems and changed the names of avalanche sizes and the wording of the European avalanche danger scale. Full details can be found here. Please also find a recent article about the UIAA Safety Commission's progress in launching...

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30/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Culture and Education, Mountain Protection Award

Giroparchi Nature Trail by Fondation Grand Paradis

The goal of Giroparchi Nature Trail is to allow new generations to acquire full awareness of the exceptional beauty of the natural heritage that characterizes our mountains, to understand the biodiversity of the first Italian National Park, the Gran Paradiso National Park, and to become...

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29/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Conservation of Biodiversity, Mountain Protection Award

Protection of Arctic-Alpine Flora & Upland Raptors by John Muir Trust

The project's aim is to work with climbers in winter to give as much information as possible for a judgement to be made on the suitability of climbing conditions to avoid damage to rare upland flora some of which is unique in England....

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28/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Climate Change, Mountain Protection Award

Post-earthquake recovery in the remote mountain areas of Nepal by Community Action Nepal (CAN)

Community Action Nepal is a charity and NGO/INGO which has been operating in Nepal for over 20 years....

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27/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Mountain Protection Award, Waste Management & Disposal

Patagonia Waste Management by Acceso PanAm

Our goal was to find simple, inexpensive options to manage human waste in climbing advance base camps in locations that are remote, and has no septic systems or transport via helicopter sling loads. ...

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27/08/2018
In Featured, Media, Mountain Medicine, Mountaineering

UIAA Medical Advice: Emergency Field Management of ACS, HAPE and HACE

Acute mountain sickness (AMS), high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) and high altitude cerebral edema (HACE) are the most important and most common altitude-related diseases. Up to altitudes of about 5000-6000m, symptoms of altitude illness are a direct result of inadequate acclimatization. The UIAA Medical Commission has...

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24/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Culture and Education, Mountain Protection Award

Tracks Safety: A system for the management of health and safety in wilderness areas

Our goal is to expand our existing system for managing health and safety risk in wilderness areas into an dynamic online system that allows mountaineers and other visitors to wilderness areas to contribute to the collection of information regarding the local environment and communities. ...

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22/08/2018
In 2018 UIAA Mountain Protection Award, Culture and Education, Mountain Protection Award

A reason not to migrate by Mountain Wilderness Italia

The objective of this project is to transmit to local guides technical and cultural expertise regarding the management of their environmental and cultural heritage in terms of eco-sustainable tourism....

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