Jim Moss writes in about the March book selection: Let’s do The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory by Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman From Amazon Reviews: In 1924, a 37-year-old English schoolmaster and war veteran named George Mallory bid farewell to his beloved wife and children and went … Read more…
February 8: Fifty Classic Climbs by Steve Roper and Alan Steck. A reminder that book club will be discussing a book that has its’ own Wikipedia entry, a Flickr photo pool and a Facebook group about people who are attempting to climb all of them – Mark and Janelle Smiley. John Meek … Read more…
There’s an interesting thread going on over on the AAC’s Facebook page right now. The question asked was this: “Joe Simpson, author of Touching the Void, developed an interest in climbing after reading The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer. What book motivated you to start climbing? (Don’t forget that members-anywhere … Read more…
We are always looking for new books to read and new members so bring great ideas, great discussions and a friend to the December meeting. The meeting will be December 14, 2010 around 6:30 p.m . See you then. Future Front Range Book club books are going to be: December … Read more…
November’s book is Bernadette McDonald’s Brotherhood of the Rope, a biography of Charles Houston. Jake Norton put a great link to a video on his blog The Mountain World. Dougald MacDonald
Jim Moss, AAC’s Library Committee Chair and Book Club fearless leader writes in: It is amazing but no matter what happens when the AAC Book Club gets together, there is a discussion about a book….. This past meeting, we were a little shy on people and still had two different … Read more…
Originally uploaded by American Alpine Club Photo Library As some of you might have heard, the AAC’s book club has plans for global domination. In response to your requests for more local activities, we are hoping to launch book clubs in each AAC Section that wants one, possibly by winter! … Read more…
Thanks to Bob Ader, August’s American Alpine Club Book Club will feature a visit from Dee Molenaar! We’ll be discussing Dee’s book, The Challenge of Rainier, as well as his 2009 Mountain Rescue publication, Mountains Don’t Care, But We Do: an early history of mountain rescue in the Pacific Northwest. … Read more…
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’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…
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…
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…
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…
Last month the book club read Steve House’s book, Beyond the Mountain. Steve generously offered to spend some time on the phone and ended up talking with book club members for over an hour. There was an abundance of beer and some homemade but gourmet brownies. Friendliness and good feelings … Read more…
Steve House’s book Beyond The Mountain is getting a lot of attention and great reviews. Here’s one from the Daily Camera. And one from Denver Mountaineering Examiner Jilly Salva. You can hear Steve’s interview from the Friends of Banff Park Radio Alpine Authors series here. He’ll be speaking at Neptune’s … Read more…
Forever on the Mountain: The truth behind one of mountaineering’s most controversial and mysterious disasters. Book club member, travel writer and Mountaineering Museum gift shop manager Martha Perantoni sends in the following description: “Tabor’s exhaustive look at the doomed 1967 expedition to scale Alaska’s Mt. McKinley is an often gripping … Read more…
January 12: Halfway to Heaven by Mark Obmascik February 9:Forever on the Mountain by James M. Tabor March 9: Beyond the Mountain by Steve House April 13: K2, the Savage Mountain by Charlie Houston and Bob Bates You can check these books out from the library if you are an … Read more…
For December’s meeting of the book club we are going to be reading Annapurna by Maurice Herzog. This is the story of the first ascent of an 8000 meter peak in 1953 – a very gripping account of the battle to summit, and descend and survive. We are also … Read more…
Stephen Venables At Book Club Originally uploaded by American Alpine Club Photo Library Aaron Miller, one of the members of the AAC’s Book Club Fight Club, went out on a limb and invited Stephen Venables to come sit in on book club, and he was gracious enough to accept! We … Read more…
Jim Moss, host of the AAC’s book club writes in: “We had an extremely interesting discussion at our September book club meeting where we discussed Mountains of the Mind by Macfarlane. The discussion touched life, death, religion, goals and how mountains affected and in some cases directed mankind. I was … Read more…
Adam M and I were thinking about how to bring even more people to book club. We thought Book Club Fight Club might do it. What do you think? Here are the rules, stolen from the movie: 1st RULE: You do not talk about Book Club FIGHT CLUB. 2nd RULE: … Read more…
We’ll be discussing The Price of Conquest by Lino Lacedelli, Giovanni Cenacchi, and Mark Worthington. This book covers the events of the first ascent of K2 by an Italian team in 1954. This ascent was remarkable in how it was accomplished and the litigation and acrimony that has followed the … Read more…
The book club had another great meeting discussing Jennifer Lowe-Anker‘s Forget Me Not. The meeting was capped with a telephone conference call with Jennifer. She is an amazing person who opened her heart and her family in Forget Me Not and was equally open on the telephone call. Forget Me … Read more…
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…
We will not be meeting in June as previously scheduled because so many folks are traveling including the organizers. We look forward to seeing you in July!! NEW DATES: July 14th Forget Me Not: A Memoir by Jennifer Lowe-Anker and Jon Krakauer August 11th K2: The Price of Conquest by … Read more…