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| Sport | Mountaineering Climbing |
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| Jurisdiction | International |
| Abbreviation | UIAA |
| Founded | August 1932; 93 years ago (1932-08) |
| Headquarters | Bern, Switzerland |
| President | Peter Muir |
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TheInternational Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, commonly known by its French nameUnion internationale des associations d'alpinisme (UIAA;French for 'International Union ofAlpine Clubs'), was founded in August 1932 inChamonix, France when 20 mountaineering associations met for an alpine congress. Count Charles Egmond d'Arcis, from Switzerland, was chosen as the first president and it was decided by the founding members that the UIAA would be an international federation which would be in charge of the "study and solution of all problems regarding mountaineering".[1] The UIAA Safety Label was created in 1960 and was internationally approved in 1965 and currently (2015) has a global presence on five continents with 86 member associations in 62 countries representing over 3 million people.[2]
After the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and in accordance with theIOC recommendations, the UIAA suspended all UIAA officials from Russia, and delegates from the Russian Mountaineering Federation (RMF) and Russian officials and athletes were excluded from all UIAA-sanctioned activities and events.[3]
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