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Mandatory registration for foreign mountain guides
Mountain guiding activity means leading and accompanying persons in mountain and high-mountain terrain outside marked tourist trails and routes, as well as providing training in mountaineering disciplines, including courses in technical rescue in the mountains, on hiking tours and climbing tours on rock, ice and snow, or in combinations of these terrains at the first…
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New rules for mountain guide activities in the territory of the Slovak Republic.
By adopting the amendment to Act No. 544/2002 Z.z. on the Mountain Rescue Service, new rules were added to the existing obligations for mountain guides. From 1. By January 1, 2026, every mountain guide must be insured for liability for damage that could arise when providing mountain guiding activities, with a minimum insurance limit of…
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UIAGM General Assembly Baden, Austria
The UIAGM 2025 General Assembly was held near Vienna in Baden. The program included various accompanying events as well as discussions on the direction of the UIAGM and other important topics. Climbing competitions are also part of the program. NAHVSR was represented by its President Jozef Janiga and Technical Commission President Michal Gerčák.
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New mountain guides of NAHVSR
The last week of June, the NAHVSR Technical Committee organized the last course No. 12 – Guiding clients and rescuing on glaciers II, including the final exam in Chamonix, France. Due to the high temperatures, we also completed rock climbs. As part of the exam, the aspirants climbed to the Pyramide de Tacul, Petit Capucin,…
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Mountain Guides’ Day
We invite you to the Mountain Guides’ Day on June 28, 2025 in Starý Smokovec. The program begins at 3:00 PM at the monument of mountain guides and mountain rescuers at the cemetery in Starý Smokovec.
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General Meeting Prague 2024
On November 19-22, 2024, the UIAGM General Meeting took place in Prague, along with the international mountain guide competition in sport climbing.
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Aspirant Examinations 2024
Congratulations to the aspirants for passing the glacier course and the aspirant exam. All 9 trainees have successfully passed the aspirant exam and are continuing their training as mountain guides at UIAGM | IVBV | IFMGA. The aspirants now have a summer season ahead of them, during which they will undertake their aspirant practice under…
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Mountain Guides Day
22.6.2024 will take place the Day of Mountain Guides organized by the Association of Mountain Guides High Tatras.
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Further specific training
In May 2024, TK NAHVSR organized another special training of mountain guides, which according to the 544/2002 guides must attend every 3 years. This time the training had an international format and was attended by Polish mountain guides. We created 4 workplaces, where trainers of NAHVSR and Polish PSPW conducted methodical procedures focused on guiding…
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The first female mountain guide
Denisa Šulcová became the first Slovak mountain guide. See her portrait in Extremely in the mountains in the RTVS archive. https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/15430/451306#73
