They're warming up. Nearly a decade after mountains were placed on the international agenda at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and after the World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 called for special attention to mountain women, African, Asian, European, Latin American, and North American women descended on Kathmandu last week to finalise a plan of action to develop a mountain women's agenda. Their plan: holding a global meeting in Kathmandu in May 2002, the International Year of the Mountain, bringing together 300 participants-"mountain entrepreneurs", NGOs, researchers, parliamentarians, funding agencies and women from the world's major mountain ranges.