The Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada (FEDME), loctaed in the Floridablanca 84 in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, is the Spanish

Spain

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 federation of mountain and climbing sports. It was founded under the name Federación Española de Alpinismo (Spanish federation of alpinism) on July 1, 1922, and renamed to Federación de Montañismo later.

Aim of the FEDME is the protection of the Alps

Alps

The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....

, the support of mountain huts, alpine tours, and of GR footpath

GR footpath

The Grande Randonnée , Grote Routepaden or Lange-afstand-wandelpaden , Grande Rota or Gran Recorrido is a network of long-distance footpaths in Europe, mostly in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. In France alone, the trails cover approximately 60,000 km...

es as well as the supervision of mountain and winter sports like fell running

Fell running

Fell running, also known as mountain running and hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty...

, alpinism

Mountaineering

Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

, mountain as well as snowshoe

Snowshoe

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 hiking

Hiking

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, and ski mountaineering

Ski mountaineering

Ski mountaineering is form of ski touring that variously combines the sports of Telemark, Alpine, and backcountry skiing with that of mountaineering...

. The FEDME also supports the Spanish national team of ski mountaineering, called Equipo PNTD Esquí de Montaña.