Mission: Mountain Legacy is an unaffiliated non-governmental agency dedicated to the cultural and natural conservation of remote mountainous regions.

Projects:

• Mountain Legacy has developed out of the organizing committee of the Namche Conference ("People, Park, and Mountain Ecotourism"), which is being held at Namche Bazar (Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu, Nepal) in conjunction with the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the climbing of Mt. Everest. Mountain Legacy will organize a continuing series of conferences to be held in remote mountainous destinations around the world.

• The first Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal "for remarkable service in the conservation of culture and nature in remote mountainous regions" will be presented to Michael Schmitz and Helen Cawley at Tengboche Monastery on May 29, 2003. More...

• Mountain Legacy is promoting the organization of a unique mountain research center in Rolwaling Valley, Nepal. More...

• Mountain Legacy will maintain a directory of volunteer opportunities in remote mountainous regions.