The UIAA (Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme) is the organisation that represents several million mountaineers and climbers, world-wide, on international issues. Formed in 1932 it now has over 88 members associations from some 76 countries, all of national importance. It is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the International Federation representing mountaineering and climbing. 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... The International Olympic Committee is an organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organise this sports event every four years. ... If you were looking for the car, please see Mercury Mountaineer. ... Climbers on Valkyrie at the Roaches. ...
Central to the UIAA's work is the belief that the freedom to practice mountaineering, from the high, remote mountain peaks to the lowlands and coastal cliffs, is of great value to many of the world's citizens.
The UIAA recognises the enormous value of mountain areas as reservoirs of biological diversity; as places of great spiritual and historic interest; as places with spectacular natural phenomena associated with climate and geology, and as the location of some of the world's most beautiful and peaceful landscapes.
The UIAA is also concerned to ensure that the activities of mountaineers help to sustain local communities in ways which are beneficial to mountain people as a whole and are acceptable to the mountaineering community.
UIAA serves fellow institutions of power, to maintain their own power, and avoids the distribution of independent knowledge which questions that power, as is the imperative of institutions.
UIAA and the American Alpine Club will never allow a person who can think and ask effective questions, to be on a UIAA or American Alpine Club panel discussing the concerns of mountain climbers, or invade the titled hierarchy of those clubs.
UIAA leaders keep making fools of themselves by lamenting that not enough climbers know about UIAA, while those leaders are not sufficiently intelligent to figure out that they have the wrong organization representing UIAA in the wealthiest nation in the world, even when they are shown the proofs year after year after year.
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