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Pre-Season Update on Snow, Avalanches and the Latest Rescue Protocols For UIMLA members

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On Monday 20th December 2021 UIMLA joined with our colleagues from other MountainSafety.info organisations for a pre-season update on risk management, snowpack assessment, online resources of avalanche warning services, the latest research on avalanche accidents including the first fully flow-chart based rescue protocols and an update on the on-site treatment of the avalanche patient by […]

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UIMLA Aligns With Other Sector Leaders To Signs The Glasgow Declaration On Climate Action In Tourism

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UIMLA announced today that it has become a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism. The Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism unites travel and tourism behind a common set of pathways for climate action, aligning the sector with global commitments and catalysing collaborative solutions to the many challenges facing businesses

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General Assembly 2021

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Our colleagues in SGVH (Croatia) informed UIMLA some months ago that an AGA in Croatia was not practical. The executive had hoped to replace this AGA with one in Switzerland to mark our relocation to there. We have monitored the COVID situation and we see that the situation is unclear and worsening in some countries.

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UIMLA Is Now Based In Switzerland

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UIMLA (the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations) is pleased to announce that it has relocated to Switzerland. From July 19th 2021, the official base of UIMLA is in the commune of Villars-sur-Ollon in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. UIMLA has 21 full member associations and 7 aspirant associations representing the professional mountain leaders or

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The first-ever global survey on waste in mountains

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BAIML, UIMLA, the IFMGA, the UIAA and Kilian Jornet Foundation are in collaboration with a project led by GRID-Arendal and the  United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and other partners, is launching the 2021 Mountain Waste Survey. This is the first-ever global survey of the public on waste in mountain areas.  More than 1.1 billion people live

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UIMLA partnership with MountainSafety.info

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UIMLA is pleased to announce a new partnership with MountainSafety.info. The other associative members of MountainSafety.info are the International Federation of Mountain Guide Associations (IFMGA) and the scientific member SLF/WSL Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. The NATO Centre of Excellence of Mountain Warfare is an institutional affiliate. The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation

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#WeAreUIMLA – Kingsley Jones

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What being an IML means to me International. Hasn’t that one word been more used, more relevant, or sometimes physically unattainable, than ever this year while many countries are in Covid-19 lockdown? When it came to the annual chore of membership renewals, a task I’ve unthinking done for nearly twenty years, I don’t really know

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