On 2nd November 2024 the Annual General Assembly of UIMLA will be held in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia. This year marks two decades of the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA) in its modern form, with exciting strides taken to benefit our growing community of mountain leaders worldwide. With […]
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Risk Management Courses to Enhance Outdoor Adventure Safety for International Mountain Leaders Worldwide The Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA) is pleased to collaborate with Viristar to enhance safety in outdoor programs. Through this partnership, UIMLA members will have the opportunity to access Viristar’s Risk Management for Outdoor Programs training courses at a specially
The Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA) is excited to announce a new collaboration with Outdooractive, a leading digital platform in outdoor tourism. This partnership marks a significant step forward in promoting sustainable and responsible behavior in the outdoors, while also enhancing the effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of professional mountain guiding and guest management
I write this from my home in Leysin in the Swiss Alps, that’s a few kilometres from the UIMLA official headquarters in Villars-sur-Ollon. It’s mid-March and I look out my window to see the green grass on slopes up to the mid-mountain – a sight that hints at the profound changes unfolding in our mountainous
The Bex – UIMLA Board is the body that directs and implements all decisions taken by UIMLA members (25 full member countries & 5 aspirant countries) between international general assemblies held annually. At the last General Assembly held in Germany in autumn 2024, a new Board was elected, partly made up of members of the
BEx meeting in Madrid Read More »
On December 11th 2023 will hold a webinar for members and other parties to talk about our Sustainability and Environmental Policy. We’ll also talk about “Waste on the Mountains”, based on a recent study made by GRID-Arendal, a non-profit environmental communications centre based in Norway. UIMLA members can join this webinar and can contact their
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Klemen Volontar, Združenja planinskih vodnikov Slovenije (ZPVS) Our friend and colleague Klemen Volontar died last week (5/12/2022). We saw him such a short time ago in Croatia and he was in good spirits making his usual great contributions to our world. He was active in his home Slovene association until a few days ago and
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During the Annual meeting of the UIMLA General Assembly in 2021 it was decided that as of 1-1-2023 (Japan: 1-4-2023) every UIMLA IML should have the new UIMLA carnet: all 22 Full Members of UIMLA worldwide will be using this new design. The most important feature of the UIMLA carnet has not changed: the holographic
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The Centre for Resources, Expertise and Sport Performance (CREPS) of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is coordinating an exchange of good practices project gathering 7 partners in the Alps, which are training centres for mountain leaders. The project started in December 2020 and will run until August 2023. It is an Erasmus+ EU funded project and involves the
HIKE! project — Alpine Mountain Leadership Forum Read More »
UIMLA is proud to announce that the Ukrainian Association Of Mountain Leaders has been formally named as a candidate member of UIMLA. This is the first step of a process that will include asking our general assembly to make the Ukrainian Association aspirant members and then assessing the training scheme before asking the general assembly
Supporting Ukrainian Mountain Leaders Read More »