The day of 29th of September 2009 was particularly important to our Foundation. In the Italian olympic village of Pragelato, we have officially opened our first Alpine Training Base.
After just a year since the start of this project, we opened the door to a place, which will help us accomplish the main goal of the Foundation - increasing safety of the mountain exploration activities.
The project became one more proof for great determination and successfulness of our team. It also proved that activities leading to cooperation and integration of institutions and communities connected with mountain safety, are effective and efficient.
Such initiative brought a chance to gather outstanding representatives of science, mountain rescue services, local government and business communities at the Alpine Training Base grand opening.
We were proud to play host to the representatives of: The Local Authorities of Pragelato and Sestriere; Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management; Agricultural University in Cracow, Faculty of Forestry, Lab of GIS & RS; Italian Mountain Rescue Services - Soccorso Alpino Stazione Pragelato - Sestriere and Guardia di Finanza of the Bardonecchia region; French Mountain Rescue Service - Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne PGHM from Chamonix; Polish Volunteer Mountain Rescue Service (GOPR); The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management in Cracow; Alpenverein; ESRI Polska and Navteq companies; other mountain activities enthusiasts and our friends.
All guests who responded to our invitation demonstrated support and willingness to cooperate to the Foundation tasks and ideas. They came to Pragelato to help us keep up the spirit of what has been started after the tragic accident in July 2007.
I would like to thank warmly especially all our Founders - Mrs and Mr Grazyna and Marek Pasek, Mr Fabrizio Cozzi, for founding the Alpine Training Base. I would also like to thank all the honourable guests for participating in the grand opening ceremony, Foundation' employees and volunteers, for their hard work and all others who contributed, making possible our Foundation to carry out this project and to operate at the highest organizational and skill level.
Chairman of the Management Board
Paweł Chrustek
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