The UP Mountaineers (UPM), a premier mountaineering group in the country and a member of the Mountaineering Federation of the Philippines Inc. (MFPI), is a dynamic, non-profit student organization whose mission is to establish and strengthen a broad-based community of outdoor leaders who actively promote responsible mountaineering and committed to understanding, appreciating and protecting the environment. After over three decades, UPM has backed up its name with numerous achievements. To name a few, the UPM sparked the interest for triathlons in the Philippines (Matabungkay Tri ’88 and ‘89), had UPM women to be the first women to traverse Mt. Everest in 2007, the first Filipina to finish the Ironman (Australia) in 2002, the first to climb several mountains in the Philippines such as Mt. Guiting-guiting, the establishment of auxiliary groups such as the Search and Rescue Team and the Padyak Project, placing in the toughest ultramarathons and triathlons, and the recognition from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)in 2010 for contributing in the "Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign," and planting more than 7500 trees in Ipo Dam Watershed and other areas in the metro.
