Mountains are cool!
Sports are the world’s most popular diversion and among these, rock climbing and mountaineering are the most fascinating. Photo: Wolfgang Nairz

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The goals of this conference
Who will get alpinism going again? Do we need new ethics in mountain sports? Are new laws threatening the last reserves of freedom? Photo: Peter Wörgötter

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Taking responsibility
Most mountain sports activists are hikers, aficionados of the great classics and ski mountaineers – but not extreme climbers. All have one thing in common: absolute safety is an illusion! Photo: Toni Hiebeler

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Quality for the future
How do we lead young people to experience flow via the mountains, so they don’t need life-threatening kicks? The lifestyle of climbing frees even city kids from their constraints. Photo: Gerald Lehner

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The burning thorn bush
Before handing him the Ten Commandments, God spoke to Moses through a burning thorn bush. Clemens Kratzer’s first reaction to the congress "Future of Mountain Sports" (Alpin 6/2002).

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Graham Nash: "Deja Vu" (1970)
"You, who are on your road, must have a code that you can live by. And so become yourself. Because the past is just a goodbye!" Foto: A. Huber

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TYROL DECLARATION
now online
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Living legends and young upstarts
Many prominent climbers will attend the conference …
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2002 "Year of Mountains"
The Official Website of the UN
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Collectors of 8.000ers
The summitters of all 14 Eightthousanders.
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Success and death rates on eight thousand meter peaks
The statistics speak for themselves …
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Many articles on the german site

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