Mark Richey, past AAC president, and his wife, Teresa, are planning a second shipment of tents to Haitians left homeless by this month’s earthquake. The first big load of tents and other equipment will leave the Richeys’ Massachusetts woodworking business, en route to Haiti, this week. The new deadline for … Read more…
Pat Goodman and Dave Sharratt, winners of a 2009 Lyman Spitzer Award from the AAC, experienced a surprising and frustrating permit situation in Sichuan, China, effectively shutting down their expedition. Goodman had climbed in Siguniang National Park in 2005 and had researched the October 2009 trip extensively, but the two … Read more…
Mark Richey, a past president of the AAC, is helping to organize a collection drive for tents and sleeping bags to send to Haiti to aid the hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of people left homeless by the recent earthquake. “Used tents, as long as they are functional, and sleeping … Read more…
Colorado-based Girls Education International, a three-year-old nonprofit cofounded by AAC members Lizzy Scully and Heidi Wirtz, has announced a new partnership with Bedari, a Pakistan-based women’s rights organization. Through this partnership, Girls Education will provide scholarship funding that will enable girls in Laphi, a town of 3,500, to attend secondary … Read more…
The government of Pakistan has announced that its bargain rates on mountaineering fees will be maintained for the 2010 climbing season. Under the discount plan, which has been in place for the past several years in an effort to lure climbers to the troubled country, there is no fee for … Read more…
According to news reports, the Indian defense ministry has agreed to open as many as 104 mountains in Ladakh to climbers. The final decision must come from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Recently, officials relaxed the Protected Areas Permit Regime to allow foreigners to visit the village of Turtuk in … Read more…
The AAC’s Sierra Nevada Section hosted its annual Fall Highball on the East Side over the weekend of November 7-8, and it was a rockin’ good time. A collaboration between the AAC, Friends of the Inyo, the Access Fund, the Eastern Sierra Cimbers’ Coalition, and local land managers from Inyo … Read more…
Will Denali National Park and Preserve increase the special-use fee that climbers pay to attempt Mt. McKinley or Mt. Foraker? That’s the rumor, although no fee increase has been formally proposed. To stave off a potential increase, the AAC has been working closely with the Access Fund, the American Mountain … 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.