Minutes from the 17th BMU Meeting, May 30th 2016, Vrsac, Serbia The 17th meeting of the Balkan Mountaineering Union (BMU) took place in Vrsac, Serbia, hosted by the Planinarski savez Srbije (PSS) The BMU meeting attended the presidents and delegates of all ten members of BMU: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, […]

People, Books and Mountains – The Quest for alpine literature, SL Alpine convention project Reading mountains The project is presented on Alpine convention webpage: http://www.alpconv.org/en/organization/presidency/DE2015/IMD/default.html and on PZS webpage as well: http://en.pzs.si/novice.php?pid=10937 The video about the project was first presented on international book day – 23rd of April 2016: http://www.alpconv.org/en/publications/multimedia/default.html Shortly in Slovenian language: Slovenija […]

WESTERN MACEDONIAN TRAVERSE MOUNTENEERING SPORT CLUB “TRANSVERZALEC” – SKOPJE, MACEDONIA is inviting the Mountaineering associations and mountaineers to participate to the WESTERN MACEDONIAN TRAVERSE that will take place July 1st – 10th, 2016. The hiking traverse will be guided by licensed mountaineering guides. • The meeting point of the participants will be the Mountain Hut […]

5th Meeting of the Leaderships of the Slovenian and Croatian Mountaineering Associations Author: Manca Čujež The Alpine Association of Slovenia (PZS) and the Croatian Mountaineering Association (HPS) have enjoyed a long-standing fruitful cooperation, which has been gaining new dimensions after the fifth meeting of their leaderships on 11 and 12 March 2016 in Starigrad, Paklenica. […]

The Alpine Association of Slovenia (PZS) was working with young people already in the first half of the 20th century, and in April 1956 they established the Youth Commission (YC), which became involved in the education and training of young mountaineers. Together with youth sections which operate within alpine clubs, the commission has been for […]

BMU Kilimanjaro expedition 2016 The fifth BMU joint expedition was realized to the highest peak of Africa, Uhuru peak (5895), mount Kilimanjaro, on January 20th. All sixteen mountaineers, members of BMU, in spite of the terrible weather conditions managed to reach the peak organized and guided by the experienced mountain guide Zivko Temelkovski member of […]

As of 14 January 2016 new episodes of the series Balkans Heights will be broadcasted every Thursday at 21:30. We bring you stories about impressive nature and people belonging to it. The series depicts natural beauties adorning the entire Balkan region, while simultaneously investigating the link between the local population and the highest peaks of […]

Cerro San Lorenzo: three new routes by Slovenian alpinists in Patagonia In November 2015 a team of five Slovenian alpnists Dejan Koren, Boštjan Mikuž, Rok Kurinčič, Domen Petrovčič and Domen Kastelic spent a month in the area of Cerro San Lorenzo, the second highest peak in Patagonia. They established three new routes: Direct Route in […]