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National News, July 2021

MCSA National News 23 July 2021 National News, July 2021

4. UIAA MOUNTAIN PROTECTION AWARD

Regular readers of this Newsletter will be aware that the Club has been preparing a submission to the UIAA for the Mountain Protection Award for 2021. This was completed and submitted.

The subject of our entry is “Helihack Alien Clearing in the Western Cape Mountains” – part of the MCSA’s broader alien vegetation clearing programmes that are on-going in the Western Cape mountains.

There are a large number of entries to the competition this year – due to last year’s being cancelled – 25 in all. They are all viewable on the UIAA web site:

https://www.theuiaa.org/uiaa/25-projects-line-up-for-global-sustainability-award/

and it is apparent that there is some stiff competition!


5. UIAA UPDATE

The UIAA continues pretty well all of its normal activities with numbers of initiatives on the go. Members are urged to go to the UIAA web site – https://www.theuiaa.org/ – for more information plus a load of other useful data.

5.1  SAFETY COMMISSION REPORTS ON STANDARDS PROGRESS

Those of you who are more technically minded may be interested in the UIAA Safety Commission news and this commission held its latest Plenary Session between 31 May and 1 June. Over the two-day online meeting, the Plenary welcomed 11 UIAA accredited laboratory representatives, 13 national delegates and representatives from 27 leading manufactures of climbing and mountaineering equipment.

More information available at: https://www.theuiaa.org/uiaa/uiaa-safety-commission-reports-on-standards-progress/


6. SHAFF

What the hell is SHAFF do I hear you cry..? SHAFF, the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, is normally a live event held each year to show and celebrate adventure-themed films. The pandemic has of course, played havoc with live events but many of the films are available on-line – either for live-streaming or down-loading and watching at leisure. There is a nominal charge for some films and some of them are free-to-view. Highly recommended for viewing a number of mountain/climbing films. Go to:

https://shaff.co.uk/shaff21/climb-films-1 to access the various titles that are available.


7. FACEBOOK AND WEB PAGES

7.1   National: abbreviated link for the national MCSA Facebook page:   www.facebook.com/MCSA125/

7.2  Links for all the sections’ web pages are on the MCSA national webpage.


8. NEWSWORTHY ITEMS

Please send any newsworthy items for inclusion in MCSA National News Letter to Greg Moseley at: moseleyg@zsd.co.za

These have been distinctly lacking over the last years – so please remember to send any items that may be of interest to the broader, national membership for inclusion here.

QUOTABLE QUOTES:

“Because it is (still) there”

Adapted from George Mallory – and applied to all mountains!


 

Thandi Davies
Thandi Davies

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