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All the latest news about projects and events in which the Petzl Foundation is involved.
FRANCE - AVALANCHE RISK: PREPARING FOR AN EXCURSION WITH THE WEB APPLICATIONS YETI AND SKITOURENGURU - 12.2019
Choosing a route suited to current snow conditions is key to reducing the risk of being caught in an avalanche (...)
FRANCE - ACTIVTIES REPORT 2018 - 06.2019
Find all the projects supported by the Petzl Foundation for the year 2018
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FRANCE - THE EFFECTS OF SLEEP MEDICATION ON MOUNTAINEERS - 06.2019
A team of researchers from HP2 laboratory, Grenoble Alpes University has studied the impact of sleep medication on the vigilance and motor agility of mountaineers when awoken (...)
NÉPAL - A MOUNTAIN OF DATA - 05.2019
Since 2004, The Himalayan Database association has compiled data on all Himalayan expeditions. The number of mountaineers, the injured and deceased, their nationalities (...)
FRANCE - CONSERVATION OF DIFFICULT ACCESS ECOSYSTEMS - 03.2019
Activities involving vertical access often take place in fragile sites of great natural beauty. The Petzl Foundation supports non-profit organizations whose role is to discover (...)
FRANCE - SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON MOUNTAIN SPORTS ACCIDENTS - 03.2019
The Petzl Foundation continues to fund research into mountain sports accidents, with the University of Lyon 1. Maud Vanpoulle, a PhD student (...)
FRANCE - A PROFESSIONAL CANYONING MANUAL - 01.2019
In January 2018, the pedagogical engineering team at the CREPS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Center for Sports Science in Vallon Pont d’Arc, France, published a canyoning manual (...)
FRANCE - The 4th SUSTAINABLE SUMMITS CONFERENCE - 06.2018
This conference is, first and foremost, an opportunity to get together, a desire to work together for our high mountains, one of the last areas on the planet where human presence is merely transient (...)
NICARAGUA - IN THE DEPTHS OF THE MASAYA VOLCANO - 06.2018
In 2015, an active lava lake opened at Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua, providing scientists a rare opportunity to study volcanoes and their impact on our lives by examining the volcano’s gas (...)
FRANCE - ACCIDENTOLOGY IN THE COULOIR DU GOÛTER - 06.2018
From 1990 to 2017, French mountain police force registers show 347 rescue operations in the Goûter couloir, on the normal route on Mont Blanc, which resulted in 102 deaths (...)
