About

The Loyola Mountaineers

Vision

We, the Loyola Mountaineers, envision a society of individuals that have a drive to nurture their skills, fully aware of the needs of the country and active participants in the challenge of nation building. We envision a society of individuals who are appreciative of nature and advocates is environmental preservation and rehabilitation, and who, in the spirit of willing service, are competent and responsible servants to their countrymen.

Mission

The Loyola Mountaineers shall form individuals who are aware of the present state of nature and mold them into agents who will appreciate, protect, preserve and conserve the environment through their own respective fields of interest.

Our Sport. We are committed to uphold, promote and further ennoble the good name of mountaineering. We ensure the safety of the sport and the recruitment and development of the best individuals by not compromising our standards and the quality of our training. We carefully regard the effect of our every action to the environment, which we are a part of.

Our Members. We are committed to continuously train our members in the various aspects of mountaineering to fully prepare them for any eventualities that may occur in our engagement with the sport. We provide them enjoyable and productive working environments as access to high quality developments in line with mountaineering. We provide opportunities for each member to become responsibly independent and efficiently interdependent. We expect that the members of the Loyola Mountaineers will be known for their character, commitment, competence, and reverence for the environment.

Our Communities. We are committed to the  enhancement of the communities of which we are part of, through maintaining harmonious and productive relationships and by undertaking projects and activities geared towards environmental awareness. We are ready and willing to link and coordinate with other mountaineering and environmental groups as well as government and private entities and persons who are in like pursuance of our objectives.


Loyola Mountaineers (LM) is the premier student-based mountaineering organization of Ateneo de Manila University. Founded in 1993, it seeks to integrate the passion for outdoor adventure with the appreciation of and concern for the environment. It has been 15 years since its inception, but the challenge of mountaineering has remained for the Loyola Mountaineers a triumph of the human spirit, and an empowering opportunity to make a difference.

Trivia:

  • CARe for Gabaldon (Citizen’s Awareness Reforestation), a community-based project of LM, has won LM the TAYO (Ten Outstanding Youth Organizations) Award for the school year of 2002-2003.
  • Not only do we climb mountains, we also surf, kayak, wall climb, bike, cave.
  • The Loyola Mountaineers are also aquatic people who engage in scuba-diving, surfing, skin-diving, wakeboarding and the like!
  • Most, if not all, LM members are photography enthusiasts; they can form their own camera club!
  • LM has climbed the highest peaks in Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and the highest peak in Southeast Asia- Mt. Kota Kinabalu!
  • The phrase “age gap” is not really taken into heart by LM members…once a mountaineer, always a mountaineer! The young and the younger always have something to talk about.
  • Maximino Pulan Jr., one of the organization’s founders and the current moderator is still an enigma for most of us.
  • Rica Peralejo was once an LM applicant.