Scheduled on Jun 1, 2010 What: Flakes, Jugs & Splitters: The Geology of Rock Climbing, slide show and book signing by geologist, writer, and climber Sarah Garlick Time: 7:30 PM Where: The American Mountaineering Museum, Golden Colorado When: Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 Admission: FREE! More info: http://www.rockclimbinggeology.com Join geologist and … Read more…
The American Alpine Club is pleased to announce the AAC members selected as delegates to visit and climb in Iran in the spring of 2011 as part of the AAC’s exchange with the Alpine Club of Iran. Over 125 AAC candidates applied, and selecting just ten delegates proved a serious … Read more…
The Zack Martin Breaking Barriers grant committee has announced the 2010 recipient of this major AAC grant: Jonathan Mingle from Vermont will travel to Zanskar, India, next winter with dual humanitarian and ski mountaineering objectives. Mingle and his partners will trek into the mountains on the frozen Zanskar River and … Read more…
Barnes and Noble stores nationwide are giving the AAC Library and Museum a percentage of your sale on ANY book or dvd! Use this code at check out: 10135614 Here’s the beta: ONLINE May 20-28th: On the payment page for your online purchases, you will see a prompt ”Is this a Bookfair … Read more…
The video below, posted by Boulder’s Daily Camera, shows a quick glimpse of the “Three Trees” event held yesterday in Boulder, CO. The families of Jonny Copp, Micah Dash and Wade Johnson planted three trees– an American elm, a white oak, and a red oak, in memory of our friends … Read more…
June’s book club selection is David Roberts’ Escape from Lucania. Book Club Leader Vern Bass writes in: An Expedition to climb Mt. Lucania in the Saint Elias mountain range – at the time the highest unclimbed North American peak by two friends from the Harvard Mountaineering Club – Brad Washburn … Read more…
The AAC has announced its spring round of Mountain Fellowships for young climbers: nine grants totaling $5,300, for expeditions from Canada to Patagonia. The recipients: • Jacob Anderson (24) and Bruce Mullen (24), $500 each to attempt a traverse of the Torres del Paine. • Josh Garrison (25), $700 from … Read more…
We strive to be relevant to the needs of the climbing community and to individual climbers. We frequently get and read comments from members and non-members alike on various blogs, forums, events, and emails. Your ideas and your input help make us better and help us understand the ways we … Read more…
We strive to be relevant to the needs of the climbing community and to individual climbers. We frequently get and read comments from members and non-members alike on various blogs, forums, events, and emails. Your ideas and your input help make us better and help us understand the ways we … Read more…
Four AAC members recently passed the AMGA’s tough Ski Mountaineering Guide Exam in Alaska. For Angela Hawse of Ridgway, Colorado, and Caroline George of Salt Lake City, the exam was the final step in their quest to become fully certified IFMGA/UIAGM mountain guides—only the sixth and seventh American women to … Read more…
Nikwax and the AAC have announced the 2010 recipients of the Nikwax Alpine Bellwether Grant, along with an increase in funding for the grant program. The Nikwax Alpine Bellwether Grants, launched in 2009, support the study of climate change in alpine environments by active climber-scientists. In 2010, the grant pool … Read more…
Twenty years ago today, the American Everest-Lhotse expedition team, led by AAC Past President Glenn Porzak, stood on the summit of Mt. Everest. Shut down by weather in both 1981 and 1989, this was Glenn’s third and successful attempt. He and team members gathered last night at AAC HQ in … Read more…
Every year AAC members get together at Mountainfilm in Telluride over Memorial Day Weekend. If you’ve never been, make this the year to change that. “Story telling at its finest, and in ways that make a difference” is how Dave Maren at AAC HQ describes Mountainfilm. Come for the inspiring … Read more…
Some of you have mentioned that this month’s book, Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, by Herman Buhl, is a little hard to find. If you are an AAC member you can check it out from the library – just give us a call! We also have one copy for sale for $25. … Read more…
Brittany Griffith reports back on last weekend’s Craggin’ Classic: Another Craggin’ Classic and another excuse/opportunity to climb with complete strangers (emphasis on the “strange”) that you would never ever climb with because they are outside your comfortable circle of climbing buddies. Thank God for Craggin’ Classics, I say. That’s absolutely … Read more…
Seven teams planning expeditions from Alaska to Pakistan have been chosen to receive the inaugural Copp-Dash Inspire Awards. The new climbing grant program was established in memory of American climbers Jonny Copp and Micah Dash, who were killed in an avalanche in China in May 2009 along with filmmaker Wade … Read more…