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Telling the stories of our members is important to us because it helps the community understand who makes up that community. Member Joe Poulton, with AAC Friend Abbey Smith, produced this stunningly-cool three part series about his experiences in Yosemite—photographing geology in ways that help YOSAR study rockfall, help climate scientists … Read more…
Telling the stories of our members is important to us because it helps the community understand who makes up that community. Member Joe Poulton, with AAC Friend Abbey Smith, produced this stunningly-cool three part series about his experiences in Yosemite—photographing geology in ways that help YOSAR study rockfall, help climate scientists … Read more…
The AAC continues to advocate on behalf of our members: Executive Director, Phil Powers and Conservation & Advocacy Director, Leigh Goldberg met with the Superintendent of Yosemite National Park last week. Expanding camping, parking and transportation options throughout the Valley, including expanding and improving amenities at Camp 4, continues to be … Read more…
The American Alpine Club has over 9,000 members worldwide and each of those members approaches climbing and time in the outdoors differently. For some it’s a career, for some a diversion, for others, an obsession. The Club’s membership spans boulderers, sport-climbers, hikers, skiers, trad-rats, scientists, big-wall aficionados, adventurers, ice-climbers, peak-baggers, … Read more…
Member and climber scientist John All wrote to us about an upcoming Peruvian expedition. The AAC is supporting a humanitarian expedition to Peru this summer that combines mountain conservation with science objectives to help protect the peaks that we all love. A small team of sixteen researchers, university students, and … Read more…
Longtime AAC Member and multiple Research Grant awardee Jon Kedrowski spoke with us about alpine research in the American West, what climbing goals mean to him, and his most recent project—bivying on the summit of each of Colorado’s 14,000′ peaks over the span of 95 days. Patience is truly a … Read more…
What began as a friendly favor to help fund a small medical clinic in rural Nepal has changed the lives of thousands residing in impoverished mountain villages all over the world. When Scott MacLennan realized $1 per person per year can staff a basic clinic in Nepal’s Rasuwa District, he … Read more…
In June and July 2011, the Deep South Section of The American Alpine Club spearheaded an environmental mountaineering expedition to Peru’s highest mountain range. The Cordillera Blanca contains the highest concentration of mountains higher than 6,000 meters (19,685 ft.) in the Western Hemisphere, as well as the highest mountains in the Tropics. Section … Read more…
In June and July 2011, the Deep South Section of The American Alpine Club spearheaded an environmental mountaineering expedition to Peru’s highest mountain range. The Cordillera Blanca contains the highest concentration of mountains higher than 6,000 meters (19,685 ft.) in the Western Hemisphere, as well as the highest mountains in the Tropics. Section … Read more…
Have you ever wanted to somehow combine your love of climbing and your desire to protect the environment—and actually get paid for it, rather than living in a van and leeching off your quickly diminishing savings? Well, you’re in luck! The American Alpine Club has just announced three new position … Read more…
Have you ever wanted to somehow combine your love of climbing and your desire to protect the environment—and actually get paid for it, rather than living in a van and leeching off your quickly diminishing savings? Well, you’re in luck! The American Alpine Club has just announced a new position … Read more…
Golden, CO—The American Alpine Club (AAC) is proud to announce the recipients of the first annual Cornerstone Crag Conservation Grant. This year, $25,000 will go toward multiple local projects: human waste management systems, road and parking improvements, trail work, signage, camping improvements, and more. New for 2011, the Cornerstone Conservation … Read more…
Greg Sievers—AAC Central Rockies Section Chair from 1997 to 2007—was awarded the 2010 Conservation Award by the Access Fund and CLIF Bar. This award honors Sievers’ long-standing leadership in organizing the Annual Lumpy Trails Day, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary. This year, Lumpy Trails Day produced 60 volunteers, 413 … Read more…
Johnny Waldman, a writer based in Boulder, CO, has been visiting the Climbers’ Ranch for over a decade. He even interned there one summer. Waldman put together this video in the hopes of sharing his experiences during Work Weeks past and inspiring volunteers for the quickly approaching 2011 Work Week. Because … Read more…
The National Geographic Society-Waitt Grant Program recently highlighted AAC Member Alton Byers’ Glacial Lake Assessment project in Eastern Nepal’s remote Hongu Valley—within the Makalu-Barun National Park and Buffer Zone. The recently completed project is just the first phase of a multi-year campaign to assess and mitigate the dangers of glacial … Read more…
Cordillera Blanca 2011 Environmental Expedition (CBEE 2011) June 26, 2011 through the week of July 24, 2011. In June and July 2011, the Deep South Section of The American Alpine Club is spearheading an environmental mountaineering expedition to Peru’s highest mountain range. The Cordillera Blanca contains the highest concentration of mountains … Read more…
Love the Grand Teton Climbers’ Ranch for its extended stays and inexpensive rates at a world-class climbing destination? Then you’ll also love this: The American Alpine Club just closed on a deal that secures 40 acres of land for a similar climbers’ campground at the New River Gorge in West … Read more…
At the end of October I drove from Boulder to Red Rocks for a climbing trip, and to represent the American Alpine Club at the second National Climbing Management Summit, hosted by the Access Fund. About 60 land managers from the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and United … Read more…
On September 7, 2010, the American Alpine Club, Access Fund, and American Mountain Guides Association sent the following letter to Jon Jarvis, Director of the National Park Service: September 7, 2010 Jon Jarvis Director, National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 RE: … Read more…
A message from Kika Bradford, executive director of Access PanAm: Our numbers are strengthened by local climbers in almost all countries in the Americas with mountains and stone. The surge of climbing in the North is spreading southward, and most U.S. climbers will eventually make it to the world class … Read more…
The America’s Great Outdoors Initiative was established by Presidential Memorandum, and represents a huge push to reconnect the American people to the outdoors alongside community-level undertakings to restore and conserve outdoor areas. As climbers who use these outdoor spaces, it’s important that we get involved in and pay attention to … Read more…
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…
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…
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…
David Brower was an AAC member and vice president. An active alpinist and a member of the 10th Mountain Division, he had over 70 first ascents. Today Brower is best known as an activist and conservationist who pushed the envelope with the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and other organizations … Read more…