International Mountain Day

December 11

December 11, 2025

International Mountain Day, celebrated since 2003, creates awareness about the importance of mountains to life, highlights the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and builds alliances that will bring positive change to mountain peoples and environments around the world.

Mountains are home to 15% of the world´s population, and host about half of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. They provide freshwater for everyday life to half of humanity, helping to sustain agriculture, and supply clean energy and medicines.

As the global climate continues to warm, mountain glaciers melt affecting freshwater supplies downstream, and mountain people, some of the world’s poorest, face big struggles to survive.

Dead Sea to Everest 5.8 - part 1 - Charlie Engle

Aug 28, 2019

Lake Assal, Djibouti

Sep 25, 2019

Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

THE 5.8 ADVENTURERSFewer than 500 people have summited all Seven Summits and no one has achieved Charlie Engle and André Kajlich´s goal:To be the first athletes to trek from the lowest point to the highest summit on every continent. While it’s over 4,500 miles from the lowest place on our planet, the shore of the Dead Sea, to its highest peak on Mount Everest, these iconic ends of the earth are separated by a mere 5.8 vertical miles. THE 5.8 GLOBAL ADVENTURE SERIES!It was the first big push of the Brazil 135, a 135-mile ultramarathon that includes 33,000 feet of...

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576 Peaks in a Year - FKT - Philip Carcia

Aug 23, 2018

White Mountains, NH, USA

Jul 7, 2019

White Mountains, NH, USA

Philip Carcia hiked all of New Hampshire’s 4,000-foot peaks every month for a year. To complete it, one must summit all 48 peaks higher than 4,000 feet on the Appalachian Mountain Club’s White Mountains list 12 times in a year (completing each set of 48 once per calendar month). That adds up to 576 total peak summits in a year, and over 2,700 miles of hiking, with more than one million feet of elevation gain. The vast majority of those who complete the project take years, often decades. Prior to Philip’s attempt, only 84 people had ever done it, and...

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Ulrich mountaineering Kosi summit finish 7 summ small

Seven Summits - Marshall Ulrich

Jun 16, 2002

Denali, AL, USA

Mar 10, 2005

Kosciusko, Australia

Having reached the top of each of the Seven Summits, including Mount Everest, all on first attempts and after the age of 50, Marshall Ulrich takes you to the top of each continent, highlighting the harsh, bitter cold environment in Antarctica and the extreme altitude and dangers of the north side of Mount Everest. Proving that health and wellness can extend into retirement, the beauty of the mountains serves as a backdrop for the audience to consider, “What is your mountain?” and “How will you choose to age?” Marshall had hoped to make an attempt to summit Everest in 2002,...

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