The book club will resume on Tuesday, July 14th, at 6pm. Read more about Jennifer Lowe-Anker’s Forget Me Not, along with her artwork, on her website. Learn more about The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation. Book Club is held in the American Mountaineering Center on the 2nd Tuesday of every month … Read more…
Tali Hussein’s footwear looked like some old tire scraps that he had fastened to his feet with twine. I looked at his 60lb “backpack” that was also twine-wrapped to his tiny frame. Then I noticed the appalling footwear of several other porters hiking nearby…
“Aw sheet, I ain’t been on a bicycle for damn near 20 years. I don’t remember it being this much fun!”—Morris (pronounced Morse) AAC member from Atlanta and multi-time attendee of Teton Climbers’ Week. This was just one of the vivid quotes from this year’s Teton Climbers’ Week. The weather … Read more…
The AAC is looking for a member to serve as section chair for the Oregon area. Know of anyone who'd be interested? Are you? Let us know. # AAC Museum featured in the Denver Post today – Bradford Washburn photographic exhibit going on now http://tinyurl.com/mebktq # Members near LA: Check … Read more…
If you haven’t seen it, be sure to spend some time with Stewart Weaver’s and Maurice Isserman’s Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, recently published by Yale University Press. Increasingly hailed as the magnum opus of the history of … Read more…
Join Clayton Laramie, local American Alpine Club member, for a presentation on his recent expedition to Cochamo, Chile. Clayton and friend Francisco Parada set off to establish a new route at El Monstruo but circumstances led them to the Cirque of La Paloma, on Pared de las Profetas. This is … Read more…
Check out the article in yesterday’s Denver Post about our new From the Favorites exhibit. Big thanks to Preservation Librarian Beth Heller and CMC Marketing Strategist Chris Case for carrying out the curatorial work, Museum Operations Manager Sarah Wood for logistical support, and a HUGE thank you to the donors … Read more…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7JYS7My6nU] June 27, 2009 Doors open at 6:00, show begins at 6:30 American Mountaineering Center 710 10th Street Golden, CO 80401 Cost $15 Join the Colorado Environmental Film Festival for a Night on Water featuring the nationally acclaimed film FLOW , Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label … Read more…
What’s left to do in Alaska after 28 climbing trips in 24 separate years? For AAC treasurer Jack Tackle, along with longtime member Jay Smith (himself a veteran of many Alaska Range new routes), what’s left was four new routes in two and a half weeks. Tackle said this blitzkrieg … Read more…
Dear fellow climbers,
We have access to parts of the world few of our fellow citizens ever see, and we have a particular set of skills not many share. We’re asking you to bring those two things to bear next Oct. 24 in a one-day project that we hope will have some measurable impact on changing the world.
Check it out: new Boulder Canyon guidebook coming out next month http://tinyurl.com/mhlcdl # new pics and videos of the GTCR climbers' week posted on the AAC facebook page http://tinyurl.com/l99mzr # Check out C.A.M.P. USA's warehouse sale this weekend (June 20-22) near Boulder, CO http://www.camp-usa.com/ #
Check it out: a long-needed guidebook for the Boulder Canyon area will be released next month by Wolverine Publishing. The new book is full of great photos, route descriptions, and climber profiles and looks to be a huge improvement over the past books. We’re pumped about it; what do you … Read more…
Bushes, bird excrement, snake paranoia, exfoliating faces, incipient seams—all to get to one perfect crack climb. Peter Doucette, Kate Rutherford, and I have just returned from a month-long climbing expedition in Namibia. At the end—on our very last possible climbing day—we completed a first ascent of Southern Crossing, a V … Read more…
It wasn’t too long ago that Jonny and Micah showed up with Peter Mortimer to film in our library, as part of the NatGeo First Ascent episode on their then-upcoming trip, which was partially funded by a Spitzer grant. Our librarians regard the camera the way Superman regards kryponite, so … Read more…
Hi. This is our new blog; “our” meaning yours too…assuming you’re a climber (or at least like to follow the exploits of, or converse with, climbers). Our blog is called Inclined because we like what it means: A slanted or angled plane not parallel to the ground–“The inclined nature of … Read more…
A selection of Bradford Washburn’s photographic prints from his collection of personal favorites will open at the American Mountaineering Museum on June 8th. The show is scheduled to run through October 26th, 2009. There will be two rounds of 18-20 prints hung in the museum. The first round (June to … Read more…
June 3rd, 2009 @ 7:00PM (Museum Reception @ 5:30) The Mountaineering Museum presents: Author and Geologist Jack Reed on his book Rocks Above The Clouds Rocks Above the Clouds by Jack Reed and Gene Ellis is the first geology primer written specifically for hikers, scramblers and climbers. It is an … Read more…