The Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA) is the worldwide professional body for International Mountain Leaders. I’m a director of the British association (BAIML) and the President of UIMLA. I also represent the profession to the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA).
In my official role as UIMLA President I was invited the Outdooractive 30th anniversary celebration in their home town of Immenstadt im Allgäu in the Oberallgäu region, the southernmost district of Bavaria. I’d been away and it was a bit tricky to schedule in but I was able to be there for a couple of […]
This week I’ve been at the International Commission for Alpine Rescue ICAR convention in nearby Montreux. I’m a delegate to AVACOM which is the Avalanche Commission. I’ve also been representing UIMLA and I was invited by MountainSafety.info to make a presentation about about how their avalanche education resources are used in a professional setting like
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It’s been a tough couple of years and one of the impacts has been on the normal training for our UIMLA aspirant members. As a result of the relationship between UIMLA and MountainSafety.info I invited Manuel Genswein to join BAIML in a special training event in Les Diablerets in the Swiss Alps. Manuel is an
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A few weeks ago I was interviewed by SwissInfo in my role as UIMLA president. It was a great experience and we talked about some interesting topics. The journalist, Dale, had some great insights and understanding about how mountain tourism is changing. It’s great to see some coverage on these issues. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/a-good-reason-not-to-cry-but-to-welcome-the-wolf-/46863294 SWI swissinfo.ch is
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This is a bit of a cross-over post, like those episodes of CSI where the guys from New York turn up in Las Vegas. I’m a director of British Association of International Mountain Leaders (baiml.org) and the President of the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (uimla.org). In my UIMLA role I’ve managed the process
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As part of my role as UIMLA President, I was invited to Macedonia for a week. This was part of a project funded by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the goals are to build sustainable value chains in mountain tourism. I’ve been following Macedonia for a while, while I was a UK delegate to
I’ve known for a year that the annual assembly of the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA) was going to in Poprad, Slovakia at the foothills of the High Tatras. It’s somewhere I’ve never visited and I really looked forward to it. It’s quite extraordinary to visit countries that didn’t exist on the map when
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In November I had a brief trip to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. I was representing the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA) at the annual congress of the UIAA – the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation. This was a first for UIMLA as we were applying to be a member of the UIAA. I was basically there
