Project overview
Scientific and educational mountaineering expedition on Mount Ararat carried out by the Italian Alpine Club
The Italian Alpine Club (CAI) is celebrating 150 years in 2013 by the Foundation, occurred in Turin in 1863. A specific national project has been created, that is significant to celebrate the anniversary.
This is to accompany a group of young Italian mountaineers on top of a significant mountain and conduct scientific research in parallel.
We are talking about the project: "CAI Mount Ararat expedition".
Young people are the protagonists of the future that, day after day, advances with innovations, positive and negative changes at all levels. Even the Italian Alpine Club, through its Educational Project, work in the education of young people with the structures of alpinism Youth who are active in the Italian sections.
In this project, young people are the primary focus of the collaboration between national committees that have as one of its missions, the education and culture of the mountain.
The expedition group is made up of boys aged 15 to 17 years, accompanied by CAI Youth Mountaineering Leaders. Central Commission TAM Operators and a doctor of the Central Medical are inside the group. The Central Scientific Committee collaborates in the expedition preparation concerning the scientific aspects and in 2014 will conduct research in more specific scope of the project.
So four CAI National Commissions will work together, each in his own mission statement.
The Commissions are (please note that in general Central means National):
The goal the summit of Mount Ararat (5165 m above sea level - Anatolia - Eastern Turkey), this is the name of the mountain where, according to an old and charming legend, is said to have landed Noah and his ark after the flood. This is therefore the place where humanity would live his second genesis.
A choice that implies a reference to a culture of peace and tolerance: the word Ararat itself contained a contrast against the background of one of the most terrible tragedies of the twentieth century. Ararat in Armenian means "place created by God," while in Turkish, the same word has a meaning opposite: "the mountain of pain."
The name of the place is not random and in this case the contrast language hides the contrast between the two ethnic groups: Turks and Armenians. For Armenians, Christians, Ararat was the holy mountain, but the mountain is no longer their, now belongs to Muslim Turkey.
In this adventure we want to propose mountaineering that highlights the educational values, human and cultural rights, human and cultural, taking into account the technical component aimed at safety in climbing up the mountain.
The learning activities have been and are still being conducted with the support of experts in the CSC and CCTAM, allowing the students to learn more about the area that will see us as guests.
The various activities will have teamwork as leitmotiv. The best result achieved will always be seeking a shared success rather than a single performance.
A later stage of the project will take place in 2014, the year in which they will be carried out by CSC representatives relevant scientific research in turkish territory.
The young participants were selected as representative of Youth Alpine teams in Italy and so they come all from a specific educational path. To prepare the whole group in an appropriate manner and share the right team spirit has been designed a dedicated introductory. This way takes their different CAI teaching methods, alternating moments in outdoor classroom exercises where best to implement the active method of '"learning by doing".
The mountains have seen and still see the group in action are the Dolomites, the Monte Rosa and the Ortler-Cevedale groups.
We give everyone a date for the end of summer when, coming back from the expedition, we will tell the outcome and meaning of the experience to appreciate and share it.
The Italian Alpine Club (CAI) is celebrating 150 years in 2013 by the Foundation, occurred in Turin in 1863. A specific national project has been created, that is significant to celebrate the anniversary.
This is to accompany a group of young Italian mountaineers on top of a significant mountain and conduct scientific research in parallel.
We are talking about the project: "CAI Mount Ararat expedition".
Young people are the protagonists of the future that, day after day, advances with innovations, positive and negative changes at all levels. Even the Italian Alpine Club, through its Educational Project, work in the education of young people with the structures of alpinism Youth who are active in the Italian sections.
In this project, young people are the primary focus of the collaboration between national committees that have as one of its missions, the education and culture of the mountain.
The expedition group is made up of boys aged 15 to 17 years, accompanied by CAI Youth Mountaineering Leaders. Central Commission TAM Operators and a doctor of the Central Medical are inside the group. The Central Scientific Committee collaborates in the expedition preparation concerning the scientific aspects and in 2014 will conduct research in more specific scope of the project.
So four CAI National Commissions will work together, each in his own mission statement.
The Commissions are (please note that in general Central means National):
- CCM - Central Medical Commission (ref. Adriano Rinaldi - President)
- CCAG – Central Youth Commission /SCAG – Central Youth Leader School (ref. Walter Brambilla - CCAG President / Gian Carlo Berchi - SCAG Director)
- CCTAM - Central Mountain Environment Protection Commission (ref. Miranda Bacchiani - President)
- CSC - Central Scientific Committee (ref. Mattia Sella - President)
The goal the summit of Mount Ararat (5165 m above sea level - Anatolia - Eastern Turkey), this is the name of the mountain where, according to an old and charming legend, is said to have landed Noah and his ark after the flood. This is therefore the place where humanity would live his second genesis.
A choice that implies a reference to a culture of peace and tolerance: the word Ararat itself contained a contrast against the background of one of the most terrible tragedies of the twentieth century. Ararat in Armenian means "place created by God," while in Turkish, the same word has a meaning opposite: "the mountain of pain."
The name of the place is not random and in this case the contrast language hides the contrast between the two ethnic groups: Turks and Armenians. For Armenians, Christians, Ararat was the holy mountain, but the mountain is no longer their, now belongs to Muslim Turkey.
In this adventure we want to propose mountaineering that highlights the educational values, human and cultural rights, human and cultural, taking into account the technical component aimed at safety in climbing up the mountain.
The learning activities have been and are still being conducted with the support of experts in the CSC and CCTAM, allowing the students to learn more about the area that will see us as guests.
The various activities will have teamwork as leitmotiv. The best result achieved will always be seeking a shared success rather than a single performance.
A later stage of the project will take place in 2014, the year in which they will be carried out by CSC representatives relevant scientific research in turkish territory.
The young participants were selected as representative of Youth Alpine teams in Italy and so they come all from a specific educational path. To prepare the whole group in an appropriate manner and share the right team spirit has been designed a dedicated introductory. This way takes their different CAI teaching methods, alternating moments in outdoor classroom exercises where best to implement the active method of '"learning by doing".
The mountains have seen and still see the group in action are the Dolomites, the Monte Rosa and the Ortler-Cevedale groups.
We give everyone a date for the end of summer when, coming back from the expedition, we will tell the outcome and meaning of the experience to appreciate and share it.
CAI Ararat 2013 - Project summary
Below is a summary of the project that the Italian Alpine Club has planned for the year 2013 on the occasion of the celebration of 150 years since its foundation, as at the date of preparation of this document.
Step 1 - Preparation - Youth team Project (managed by SCAG): high altitude approach (June 2012 - June 2013).
Activity
Step 2 - Shipments (July 2013, 15 days)
Activity
Step 3 - Communication (September 2013 - December 2013)
Activity
Below is a summary of the project that the Italian Alpine Club has planned for the year 2013 on the occasion of the celebration of 150 years since its foundation, as at the date of preparation of this document.
Step 1 - Preparation - Youth team Project (managed by SCAG): high altitude approach (June 2012 - June 2013).
Activity
- Identification and preparation of the group members who have appropriate eligibility requirements for the expedition and constitute the widest possible representation of the national territory.
- The young participants must have completed an adequate educational and experiential in CAI Youth groups.
- Technical preparation, carrying out high altitude climbs in the Alps
- Cultural background in the area that will host the shipment through workshops conducted in collaboration with the CSC.
- Preparation than the eco-sustainability of the expedition in collaboration with experts from the CCTAM.
- To know the people who will share an important experience, increase confidence in their peers, enhance the level of cooperation, foster communication. Team building.
- To know in advance the landscape and culture of Turkey.
Step 2 - Shipments (July 2013, 15 days)
Activity
- Ascent of Mount Ararat (5165 m above sea level, Anatolia, Eastern Turkey) - mountaineering expedition.
- Cultural tours.
- Reaching the top of valuing the human aspects and the value of the group.
- Environmental observations supported by specialized scholars.
- Knowledge of the culture of Turkey.
Step 3 - Communication (September 2013 - December 2013)
Activity
- Video / photo documentation production for the communication events.
- Presentations and experience of the project on a national scale through public meetings conveyed with the help of local CAI sections.
- Communicate the meaning of the experience of the group with particular stress on mountaineering, human and cultural.