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FRANCE - ACTIVTIES REPORT 2017 - 06.2018
Find all the projects supported by the Petzl Foundation for the year 2017
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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 (...)
FRANCE - THE EFFECTS OF SLEEP MEDICATION ON MOUNTAINEERS - 05.2018
A team of researchers from Grenoble University Hospital has studied the impact of sleep medication on the vigilance and motor agility of mountaineers when awoken in the middle of the (...)
LEBANON - REFUGEES FROM LEBANON: FINDING HOPE IN CLIMBING - 05.2018
The non-profit organization ClimbAid aims to foster the physical and psycho-social development of refugee children and teenagers through climbing. In 2017, over a three-month period, they (...)
UNITED STATES - HOW CALIFORNIA’S GIANT SEQUOIA RESPONDS TO DRAUGHT - 04.2018
California recently experienced an unprecedented 5-year drought (2012-2016) that led to declining growth rates and increasing mortality levels in many trees and forests (...)
HAITI - HAITIANS DISCOVER CAVING - 04.2018
Southern Haiti is a very mountainous region, formed by two karst massifs located in national parks. Pic Macaya National Park is riddled with countless chasms and a number of canyons: (...)
FRANCE - SILENCE! - 03.2018
Europe’s mountains are easily accessible and have a highly developed infrastructure compared to mountain ranges elsewhere in the world. In these densely populated and highly frequented (...)
UNITED STATES - YOSEMITE ENJOYS A MAJOR CLEAN-UP - 02.2018
In 2017, they collected more than three tonnes of litter from the trails and the zones around the cliffs. Clean-up operations have also taken place on the famous big wall of El Capitan (...)
FRANCE - CALL FOR PROJECTS BY PETZL EMPLOYEES - 01.2018
In 2017, the Petzl Foundation proposed to the company’s employees to support their projects related to mountain or vertical world. For this first call (...)
FRANCE - AN AVALANCHE RISK PREVENTION TOOL FOR MOUNTAIN REFUGE WARDENS - 01.2018
Maps indicating which slopes have a gradient of more than 30° were handed out to refuge wardens at their Annual General Meeting (...)
FRANCE - UNDERSTANDING ROPE ACCESS INJURIES - 07.2017
The Petzl Foundation is funding a multidisciplinary research team (University of Lyon 1, France), who asked 500 rope access workers in the Rhône-Alpes region to complete a questionnaire (...)"
