Start Date
18-6-2025 5:00 PM
End Date
18-6-2025 6:30 PM
Abstract
IBILKI, is a cultural association and mountain club from the Basque Country, works across different groups including people with disabilities, immigrant communities, refugees and exiles, homeless individuals, and the empowerment of racialized immigrants women through intercultural and multigenerational hiking & mountaineering projects. They create a bond between all these groups through volunteering, guidance and accompaniment, but most importantly through shared experiences. Mountains are not the end goal but rather a meeting point where everyone has something to contribute. In the club, everyone guides and accompanies others, including people with disabilities who may guide those with different or less severe disabilities.Even persons with intellectual, physical, and sensory disabilities are part of the Board of Directors. Mountaineering is often associated with elite groups of high economic status, but IBILKI benefits people living in poverty or extreme poverty, mainly homeless people, as the costs are covered by collaborating associations as well as the club’s own funds. The project also engages in international cooperation with local disability associations in developing countries (Guatemala, Armenia, Morocco, Honduras, Argentina and others), sharing experiences in a non-colonialist, reciprocal way— teaching and learning guiding and accompaniment techniques while jointly organizing expeditions to mountains in those regions.
Recommended Citation
Rodríguez Morales, Christian Lauro, "Radical Inclusion" (2025). International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity and International Symposium on Physical Activity and Visual Impairment and Deafblindness. 62.
https://sword.mtu.ie/isapa/2025/day3/62
Radical Inclusion
IBILKI, is a cultural association and mountain club from the Basque Country, works across different groups including people with disabilities, immigrant communities, refugees and exiles, homeless individuals, and the empowerment of racialized immigrants women through intercultural and multigenerational hiking & mountaineering projects. They create a bond between all these groups through volunteering, guidance and accompaniment, but most importantly through shared experiences. Mountains are not the end goal but rather a meeting point where everyone has something to contribute. In the club, everyone guides and accompanies others, including people with disabilities who may guide those with different or less severe disabilities.Even persons with intellectual, physical, and sensory disabilities are part of the Board of Directors. Mountaineering is often associated with elite groups of high economic status, but IBILKI benefits people living in poverty or extreme poverty, mainly homeless people, as the costs are covered by collaborating associations as well as the club’s own funds. The project also engages in international cooperation with local disability associations in developing countries (Guatemala, Armenia, Morocco, Honduras, Argentina and others), sharing experiences in a non-colonialist, reciprocal way— teaching and learning guiding and accompaniment techniques while jointly organizing expeditions to mountains in those regions.