Library Closed July 2 & 3
The library will be closed July 2nd and 3rd for the Fourth of July weekend and will reopen with regular hours on Tuesday, July 6th. Stop by for last minute vacation planning!
Archive for June, 2010
AAC Member Summiting for Nepalese Orphans
Back in 2001, AAC member Dr. RJ Fleming saw a need in Nepal. Running a guide service out of Europe and Asia, RJ and his business partner, Ang Kami, saw many guiding companies addressing the environmental issues in Nepal, but did not know of any addressing the needs of the … Read more…
July 13 Book Club: Tom Patey’s One Man’s Mountains
July’s book club will discuss Tom Patey’s collection of essays, One Man’s Mountains, published in 1971, a year after his death. The book includes song verses as well, such as “The Manchester Delinquent’s Song”,and “Onward Christian Bonington”. Read the whole book on
June 29th: Mountaineering in the Middle Kingdom with Bruce Normand
The American Alpine Club Library and Neptune Mountaineering presents Mountaineering in the Middle Kingdom with Bruce Normand Tuesday June 29th 6:30PM 710 10th St, Golden, CO AAC Library – Foss Auditorium Most of the world’s biggest mountain ranges, and the vast majority of its unclimbed mountains over 6000m fall within … Read more…
Steve House Thanks Global Rescue
Recently, Steve House submitted a letter of thanks to Global Rescue after his fall off of Mt. Temple this past Spring. With GR’s permission, we wanted to reprint it for you here. The Global Rescue service is one of the important benefits our pooled dues help support, and it brings … Read more…
Climbers: Weigh in on Yosemite’s Future
Below is an important message from Linda McMillan, committee chair for the AAC’s Yosemite Committee as well as a representative for the AAC on the UIAA’s Protection Commission. AAC Members, In February, we helped submit comments during the scoping period for Yosemite’s Merced Wild and Scenic River Plan. There will … Read more…
6000 Miles, 100 Interviews, 50 Places…To Make a Film
We’d love to point you over to a film project in the works by Oakley Anderson-Moore, “The Last Wild Mountain: Portrait of the American Climber.” Oakley and her team have spent the last three years traveling around the country interviewing climbers– young, old, big name and everyday– to gather the … Read more…
Tracking Glacial Ice Through the Extreme Ice Survey
Have you heard about the Extreme Ice Survey? It’s worth your time to check out some of the groundbreaking work that our very own AAC members are spearheading. The Extreme Ice Survey is a study using ground-based, real-time photography to document glacial ice on a wide scale. “EIS uses time-lapse … Read more…
Global Rescue: Evacuation Stories From the Vault
One of the most important services your pooled dues help fund is the Global Rescue service available to every member of the AAC. Immediately upon joining, members are enrolled in a Trailhead Rescue membership that provides $5,000 of coverage for any evacuation/rescue costs. Since the AAC formed a relationship with … Read more…
Two Climbers Needed (Soon!) for Italian Climbers’ Meet
The AAC can nominate two US climbers to take part in the First International “Trad” Climbing Meeting, organized by the Club Alpino Accademico Italiano (CAAI, a national section of Club Alpino Italiano). The deadline is June 14, so we need you to act quickly to represent the AAC in Italy. … Read more…
From the Archives: Clayton Laramie’s Cochamo Chile Notebook
In July 2009, Clayton Laramie gave a presentation at the Mountaineering Museum’s sPeaker Series about his expedition to Cochamo, Chile. Clayton and friends 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, the first … Read more…
Conrad Anker on George Mallory: The Wildest Dream
Coming to a theater near you this August, THE WILDEST DREAM: CONQUEST OF EVEREST is a documentary by National Geographic that tells the story of Conrad Anker’s dramatic discovery of the body of George Mallory in 1999. Accompany Conrad (AAC board member) as he recreates the 1924 ascent of Mallory … Read more…
From the Archives: 1959 First Ascent of Mt. McKinley’s West Rib
“This method of approaching McKinley directly from the south is so continually steep and difficult, and so exposed to the full force of the southwesterly storms that none but the most uniformly experienced and powerful team of climbers should even think of attempting it. But I mention it here in … Read more…
Tragic Climbing Accident in Turkey
The AAC is about climbers coming together and supporting one another, and for Salavat Rakhmetov, champion Russian climber, the community has never been more needed. Last week in Turkey, Salavat was leading a pitch when a rock dislodged and came down directly on his 5-year old daughter, Zalia. She is … Read more…