One of the many things that makes the AAC Library special are the unique archives and personal papers donated by our members. The library is much obliged to Bob and Jenny French for the donation of slides and supporting documents about his pioneering trip and for their hard work in … Read more…
The Mountaineering Museum presents: Mountain 2 Mountain Breaking Barriers on Two Wheels in Afghanistan May 5th 2010 @ 7:00PM (Museum Open @ 5:30) Shannon Galpin has travelled to Afghanistan five times in the past two years on behalf of her fledging non profit, Mountain 2 Mountain. Established to strike at … Read more…
Two friends and I just completed the Haute Route ski tour from Chamonix to Zermatt, via Verbier, and we had good luck using our AAC memberships to get discounts on hut lodging. All three of us carried our member cards, mostly in case we needed to call on Global Rescue … Read more…
As reported on Alpinist.com, Air Zermatt of Switzerland and Fishtail Air of Nepal are coming together this spring to put in place the first standby helicopter rescue service in the Himalaya, with one helicopter ready in the Khumbu area and a second rescue chopper on call in the Dhaulagiri region. … Read more…
Check out video #4 on the Vertical Carnival dispatches from Turkey, profiling TNF athlete, AAC member, and first-to-put-up v16 Daniel Woods. As always, stunning video work by Renan Ozturk. Thanks to the Vertical Carnival team for letting us reproduce it here. FREE RANGE TURKEY_dispatch #4 from camp4 collective on Vimeo.
Dear AAC friends, As conservators of the great outdoors, I imagine many of you have visited the Himalayas, reveled in its vast beauty, and enjoyed the company and hospitality of the Tibetans, Sherpa and Nepalis who live there. Despite its invaluable cultural and natural assets, many people in the Himalayas … Read more…
Dear AAC Member, I was recently working on the first volume of my new autobiography, To Be Brave, when I called the AAC Library and asked about information from Mugelnoos, the long-time newsletter of the Rock Climbing Section of the Sierra Club. I was looking for a few particularly rare … Read more…
The transcript below was originally published in the Times of India, April 14, 2010, page 22. Steve Swenson, 56, is president of the American Alpine Club. He is currently working on a book documenting his 30 years of climbing in Kashmir in the Karakoram mountains of India, Pakistan, and China. … Read more…
The latest dispatch from Jim Moss about the AAC’s Golden, Colorado Book Club. Stay tuned for more information about book clubs in your local section and on Facebook, and in the meantime, join the discussion on our Google Group! May 11: The Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, Herman Buhl To this day, … Read more…
We celebrate climbing every day – from the Alpinist to the local boulderer, from the “accomplished” veterans that inspire us all to the young up-and-coming climbers setting new standards. One of the greatest resources of the AAC (not to toot our own horn) is the access to the history of … Read more…
Kyle Dempster, winner of a Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Award from the AAC, has earned a Piolet d’Or with teammates Jed Brown and Bruce Normand for their first ascent of the north face of Xuelian West in China. The American-Scottish team was one of two recipients of 2010 Piolets d’Or; … Read more…
This month’s book club discussion is about K2: The Savage Mountain. Two of the authors, Charles Houston and Robert Bates, are being inducted into the Hall of Mountaineering Excellence this Saturday, so we’ve got a small exhibit up in the American Mountaineering Center that includes the famous Red Umbrella, which … Read more…
The Mountaineering Museum presents: Phil Powers Life lessons from K2 and other big mountains April 7th 2010 @ 7:00PM (Museum Reception @ 5:30) Powers is author of Wilderness Mountaineering and Climbing: Expedition Planning. His essay, “The Importance of Pace“, was aired on NPR’s “This I Believe” in 2006. Powers has … Read more…
Front Range Section Chair Chris Pruchnic and a group of others made a trek to Ouray in January. He hopes to make it a yearly event for Front Range members. Here’s his story… Ten of us traveled from Denver to Ouray, making a pilgrimage to the city of ice and … Read more…
RIDGWAY , Colo. — Experienced alpine guide Heidi Kloos, 41, died in an avalanche on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. It is believed that Kloos was ascending on skis to a remote ice climb on Mt. Baldy in the Cimarron Mountains east of Ridgway, Colorado, when a slide released from above … Read more…
This fall will mark the 10th anniversary of the Lumpy Trails Day in Rocky Mountain National Park. To celebrate, longtime event organizer and past AAC Central Rockies Section chair Greg Sievers is organizing a reunion of Lumpy climbers from several generations: three days of parties, gear demos, slide shows, and, … Read more…
Here’s a new twist on a partner finder… Alikewise is a dating service based on what books people like to read. I found 10 books with “Climbing” in the title – and no one with profiles that include those books. Get busy, people – time to take over that site, … Read more…
