Add Activity Type: Mountaineering

[kyrgyz]

Hi Strava Team,
I'm enjoying Strava since years (mainly Ultra Trail Running and Mountaineering) and I like this platform very much - thank you for providing it! This is however my first post in the Community Hub.

I'm glad to see many exotic activities Strava has added recently but wondering that some basic ones like Mountaineering are still missing (Garmin offers it, for instance).
I'm talking about classical Mountaineering which is actually a combination of Hiking, Rock Climbing and Ice Climbing, mainly at high altitudes, always targeting a summit, in contrast to the latter ones.
So, ascending any serious summit in the Alps, Andes or Himalaya doesn't fit in any category currently available on Strava.

I'd be glad to see Mountaineering activity type in Strava, please.

Thank you in advance!

[Soren]

Thanks for submitting your idea to add Mountaineering as a Sport Type. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting.

[canadarunner]

+1  - Fully support the the addition of mountaineering.
It's also known as Alpine Touring, High Mountain Touring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_mountain_tour) or e.g. in German Hochtouren/Bergsteigen.

[yngn]

Hi
+1. I'm also supporting this proposition. 
@Soren You wrote it's open to voting. Who can vote? If it is open to used, how does one vote 🙂?

Thanks

[hakbijl]

I second this. Moreover, Strava often does not display/calculate mountains correctly as it uses OpenStreetMap, which does not contain detailed elevation info (https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/3069/elevation-maps). Example: have a look at the Matterhorn 

[Scout]

Hello and thank you to everyone who has taken the time to add your votes and comments to this request. 

We want to let you know that we do not intend to add more activity/sport types to Strava in the foreseeable future, and this feature suggestion will be moved to a status of not currently planned.

We appreciate and understand this is not the answer you were hoping for. We strive to be as transparent as possible and provide updates to our Community when they become available. 

Please remember that we receive a large number of idea submissions, and even some  popular ideas may not make it to the implementation stage. The number of votes an idea gets is one factor among several that’s considered when our product team develops the roadmap.

For more information, review our Guide to Ideas.

Additionally, a status of not currently planned does not mean this feature suggestion goes away. It will remain open to votes and comments, and may be revisited at some point in the future.

Lastly, we sincerely hope you will continue recording and uploading your activities to Strava. Here is a list of the Sport types that we currently support. It’s always an option to set your activity to sport type “workout” and indicate more specifics in the activity name.

Thanks again for your contributions.