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History of the UIAA

In 1999, the UIAA’s International council for ski mountaineering competitions (ISMC) was created and in 2003 a commission for Ice Climbing competitions was formed. In 2002 the UIAA published a “Summit Charter” describing the values and principles of the organisation. In this decade an 8th grade on the UIAA scale was also created.

In 2006 the UIAA General Assembly recognised that it was no longer possible to keep all the sections of the UIAA together as a single federation. Therefore an independent International federation for climbing competition, the International Federation of Sport Climbing came into being. Ice Climbing remains a part of the UIAA. In 2007 the UIAA celebrated its 75th anniversary, and in 2009 the federation counted almost 1.3 million members world wide.

In 2009, the UIAA at its General Assembly approved the Mountain Ethics Declaration, a code for mountaineering values and spelling out sportsmanship ethics and respect for cultures and the environment.

 
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Posted on: 15/04/2011




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