Mountaineering is one of those sports that do not necessarily requires competition and as many others such as sailing, diving, mountain biking, canoeing, horseback riding (not to speak about hunting or fishing) it is related to nature. In the case of mountaineering, competition has always been extraordinary with some historical …

The fifth Sustainable Mountain Development Summit (SMDS) took place in Leh (Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India) from September 20 to September 22. It was organized by Integrated Mountain Initiative (IMI), a civil society organisation of eleven Himalayan Indian States aiming at “making people of India proud of our mountains”. Ladakh …

On 22 April 2016 (Earth Day), 177 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed the Paris Agreement on greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance. What can be expected by the mountains areas with the enforcement of this agreement? It must be recalled that mountains …