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FRANCE - ACTIVTIES REPORT 2019 - 06.2020
Find all the projects supported by the Petzl Foundation for the year 2019
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FRANCE - FIRST ANALYSES OF SERAC STORIES (ROCK CLIMBING, MOUNTAINEERING, SKI TOURING) - 06.2020
The SERAC database is an experience sharing system meant to collect and publish individual stories of accident and near-misses lived in the mountains (...)
FRANCE - ENJOYING SPORT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE - 04.2020
The “Comme les Autres” (“Like Other People”) nonprofit organization supports the recovery of people following a life-changing accident. Two disability-in-sport (...)
INDONESIA - CAVING RESCUE TRAINING - 03.2020
Southeast Asia has one of the most beautiful karst landscapes on the planet. It has an extensive underground network of rivers and caves, which has been explored (...)
FRANCE - WILDLIFE INVENTORY IN THE CANOPY OF THE FORESTS IN FRENCH GUYANA - 03.2020
The CAFOTROP nonprofit organization conducts scientific expeditions around the world to study forest canopy biodiversity. CAFOTROP develops tree-climbing techniques to allow (...
COLOMBIA - VERTICAL TRAINING FOR BIOLOGISTS - 02.2020
The CAFOTROP nonprofit organization conducts scientific expeditions around the world to study forest canopy biodiversity. CAFOTROP develops tree-climbing techniques (...)
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 - 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 - 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 (...)
