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....
Our goals include bringing the outdoor community together in order to promote environmental awareness, waste management and good outdoor practices....
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....
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...
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...
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....
Community Action Nepal is a charity and NGO/INGO which has been operating in Nepal for over 20 years....
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. ...
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...
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. ...
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....