Formed in the second half of the 1960’s the International Association of Military Mountain Schools (IAMMS) gathers together schools from different nations, 15 of them being full members, the remaining having either an observers status or a guest status. Among the 15 full member 12 are European, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, the latter retaining by statute the responsibility of the secretariat.