INTERNATIONAL CLIMBING AND MOUNTAINEERING FEDERATION
UNION INTERNATIONALE DES ASSOCIATIONS D’ALPINISME
UIAA General Assembly 20-24 October 2015
Seoul / Korea
Program
Tuesday, 20 October
08:30-14:45 Executive Board Meeting
15:00-17:00 Informal Session Management Committee Meeting
19:00-22:00 Dinner EB & MC
Wednesday, 21 October
08:30-12:30 Management Committee Meeting Executive Session
12:30-13:30 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Management Committee Meeting with Commission Presidents
19:00-22:00 Welcome Dinner EB, MC & GA
Thursday, 22 October
08:00-16:00 Visiting and Attending Lecture at the National Mountain Museum;
Opened in November, 2014, the first national mountain museum in Korea; located near Mt. Seorak; transportation will be provided from and to the hotel
18:00-22:00 Garden Dinner at the Fulbari House near Seoul with EB, MC & GA
Friday, 23 October
08:30-09:00 Registration & Greetings
09:00-17:30 General Assembly
12:30-13:30 Lunch
19:00-23:00 Gala Dinner
Saturday, 24 October
Individual Activities or Excursion Program organized by KAF
Individual Departure
Meals
Meals during the meeting will be served at Sejong Hotel, Floating Island Restaurant on Han
River, Fulbari Garden BBQ and Korean Cuisine. The Gala dinner on Friday will take place at
Sejong Hall, 2F of Sejong Hotel. KAF is pleased to provide two of the dinners and National
Mountain Museum will provide the lunch during the planned visit.

INTERNATIONAL CLIMBING AND MOUNTAINEERING FEDERATION
UNION INTERNATIONALE DES ASSOCIATIONS D’ALPINISME
UIAA General Assembly 20-24 October 2015
Seoul / Korea
Lectures on Thursday, 22 October
History and Philosophy of Korean Mountaineering: From an East Asian Perspective
By Oh, Young-Hoon
Doctoral Candidate in anthropology at University of California, Riverside, Young-Hoon conducted field research in Nepal about Sherpa and Korean Himalayan mountaineering. He has climbed mountains for twenty years across the world including South Korea, China, Japan, the
United States, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan and Nepal. During his two-year research in Nepal, he focused on mountain experiences of Koreans and Sherpas as were evident in multiple expeditions on Everest, Lhotse, and other Himalayan peaks.
In this talk, Young-Hoon will address particular forms and ideas of Korean mountain climbing.
While numerous Korean climbers ventured high mountains over the world for decades, why and how Koreans climb have been not well understood and misrepresented to the West. Historically,
Koreans, like Chinese and Japanese, have developed a distinctive mountain culture, revered mountains and enjoyed being within mountains from an earliest era. The modern form of mountain climbing in the country, beginning in 1920s under the Japanese colonial occupation, is certainly a result of Western influence. However, Koreans have continued climbing mountains in and outside Korea in a “Korean way.” Korean cosmologies such as Confucianism, Buddhism and Korean geoecology supply the Korean Himalayanists with the ideology of community, the enlightening nature of struggle, and unique intimacy with mountain landscape, viewing their
Western counterparts from their own perspective.
From 0 to 8848, Tale of Alpinism and Humanism
By Kim, Chang-Ho
On 20 th
of May, 2013, Chang-Ho and his partners reached the top of the world from the ground zero. With this feat, the forty-four year-old Korean has climbed up all the fourteen eightthousand peaks without using supplemental oxygen.
Chang-Ho made a duo with his long-time partner Sung-Ho Seo. Both achieved a project named
“From 0 to 8848,” in which they kayaked 156km from Indian Ocean to Kolkata, cycled 893km from Kolkata to Tumlingtar of Nepal, trekked 162kim from Tumlingtar to the Base Camp of
Everest, and climbed, both oxygenless, to the top of the highest mountain. The expedition took eighty days, forty days for arriving at the Base Camp, and another forty for climbing. The period for the legendary Jerzy Kukuczka to have climbed all the 14*8,000 was the shortest until Chang-
Ho did it even 38 days shorter, within seven years, ten month and six days. Unfortunately, however, Sung-Ho, a 34-year-old climber who so far climbed up twelve eight-thousanders,

INTERNATIONAL CLIMBING AND MOUNTAINEERING FEDERATION
UNION INTERNATIONALE DES ASSOCIATIONS D’ALPINISME found breathless the next morning at the camp four (7,950m) after coming back from the summit.
His real, dramatic climbing story will be presented.
Chang-ho Kim’s Mountaineering Profile
Great Trango Tower (6,284m, Karakoram) ascent, 1993
Gasherbrum
Ⅳ
(7,925m, Karakoram) east face new route attempted, 1996
Khache Brangsa (5,560m, Karakoram) FA, Honboro Peak (5,500m, Karakoram) new route FA,
Shikari (5,928m, Hindu Kush) new route FA, 2001
Solo expedition in Karakoram and Hindu Kush Ranges, 2001-2002
Dehli Sang Sar (6,225m, Pamir) solo FA, 2003
Atar Kor (6,189m, Hinduraj) FA, 2003
Haiz Kor (6,105m, Hinduraj) FA, 2003
Bakma Brag (6,150m, Karakoram) FA, 2003
Nanga Parbat (8,126m, Pakistan) Rupal face ascent, 2005
Batura II (7,762m, Karakoram) FA, 2008
Himjung (7,126m, Nepal) FA, 2013
Completed 14*8,000m w/o oxygen, 2013

INTERNATIONAL CLIMBING AND MOUNTAINEERING FEDERATION
UNION INTERNATIONALE DES ASSOCIATIONS D’ALPINISME
UIAA General Assembly 20-24 October 2015
Seoul / Korea
Excursion Program
Our venue hotel is located in the center of Seoul and the approach to everywhere is very easy, it is all available to reach by walk in 10 or 20 minutes to the old palace, city hall, wholesale market, big Namdaemun Market, Myeongdong shopping area, Namsan(view point mountain of Seoul),
Namsangol Hanok Korean traditional house village, central stream(Cheonggye stream along the downtown), Han river, various museum, contemporary art museum, Dongdaemun Design
District, National museum, various café, all kinds of food restaurant. Insadong traditional shopping street…
1. DMZ tour http://cosmojin.com/eng/dmz-jsa-tour.asp
DMZ includes JSA as a small portion of its territory. The two areas are inseparable because the whole DMZ was created under the armistice agreement signed at JSA in 1953. Logically, the
DMZ tour should include a visit to the JSA. However, the JSA tour has been operated as a separate one just for the convenience of travelers who are not available for a whole day tour. So, you are recommended to have the combined package of DMZ tour and JSA tour.
- The combined tour gives you the overall picture of the Korean War.
- The DMZ tour shows you relics of the battle fields, while the JSA tour concentrates on the political confrontation between the two sides for the armistice arrangement.
- The combined tour can provide you a complete insight of the North and South relations in just one day.
Highlight of DMZ tour
The highlight of the DMZ tour is to explore a tunnel dug by North Korea. The tunnel was discovered by South Army as the third one among four tunnels, hence the name “The Third
Tunnel”. It is a surreal experience to find a 1,635 meter tunnel at the depth of 73 meters underground. The infiltration tunnel was made by dangerous manual excavation work with dynamites, shovels and pick axes. The tunnel is located only four kilometers away from JSA, where the representatives of North Korea repeat their version of peace and reunification.
What can you expect from the tour? Real stories of Korean War, an objective perspective on the political showdown of Communism and Capitalism, and a new paradigm of the North/South
Korean relationship
Time : 08:00-14:30
Price : 45$

INTERNATIONAL CLIMBING AND MOUNTAINEERING FEDERATION
UNION INTERNATIONALE DES ASSOCIATIONS D’ALPINISME
UIAA General Assembly 20-24 October 2015
Seoul / Korea
2. Korean Culture Experiences http://cosmojin.com/eng/korean-culture-experience.asp?menu_idx=1
You can learn how the King and family lived and governed the whole nation from the palace while you learn the noble life from traditional village at Bukchon. Now everyone can buy and sell houses and live in Bukchon but it used to be only for the nobles. Seoul City tour 3 offers all palace and Bukchon tour and gives you a lot of insights on Chosun dynasty and its nobles.
There are large and modern Lotte department store and duty free shop which is located nearby
Palace and Bukchon. You can find not only luxury items with reasonable duty free price but also grocery market and great restaurants.
Highlights
- Seoul historical ,Cultural and heritage tour of Seoul with friendly guide and best logistics
- Changdukgung, Unesco world heritage, The most beautiful palace in Asia
- Bukchon Hanok traditional village where Chosun noble life is still breathing
- World best Gingeng exhibition center or Amethyst exhibition shopping center
- Seoul best Lotte duty free shopping
Time : 09:00-12:30
Cost : 45$
3. Mountain Climbing to Bukhansan, Dobongsan & Rock Climbing
You can have a experiences to climb a rock/ mountains in Seoul. It is just 40-50 minutes from downtown by subway. There are several white granite rock areas over 300 meters and enjoy your climbing with your gears. We can arrange to climb a rock with Korean climbers as well as guidebook, routemap.