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"When we reach the mountain summits we leave behind all the things that weigh heavily on our body and our spirit. We leave behind all sense of depression; we feel a new freedom, a great exhilaration of the body no less than the spirit." - Jan Christiaan Smuts |
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The UIAA (translated the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation)
is the recognised international federation for mountain sports and the
acknowledged expert on all international climbing and mountaineering matters.
It has 92 member associations in 68 countries representing over 2,5 million
individual members.
The MCSA was invited to join the UIAA in 1995 and is one of only two bodies
in Africa that is part of the UIAA. (The other coming from Morocco.)
Through its membership of the UIAA the MCSA is afforded many opportunities.
Some being in the form on knowledge access to the UIAA commission, on
which representatives of the MCSA also sit, and international expeditions
and training initiatives.
To find out more information visit the UIAA
website.
UIAA
Meeting Report Oct 2009