Georgia” David Michael, Henry Skagway Pinkham in front of Mt. St. Elias Originally uploaded by American Alpine Club Photo Library The AAC has a paintings collection, and, for the past year, we’ve been working on gathering information about some of them. When Dee Molenaar was in Golden for the 2008 … Read more…
A_2005.044.001_Cassin_Ridge_Album034 Originally uploaded by American Alpine Club Photo Library There is a thread on supertopo today about the passing of Ricardo Cassin. In 2005, Bradford Washburn gave the AAC a photo album given to him by Ricardo Cassin in thanks for Washburn’s assistance “in the solution of the many problems … Read more…
BE a part of the Mountaineering Museum’s Bradford Washburn Photographs: From the Favorites exhibit! On August 18th the Mountaineering Museum and American Alpine Club Library will be displaying the second round of Bradford Washburn photographic prints and YOU get the special opportunity to pick which prints go into the exhibit! … Read more…
In 1997, the American Alpine Club Library received a generous donation from John M. Boyle: The John M. Boyle Himalayan Library. This collection contains more than 2500 books in 36 different languages/dialects (approximately half of these autographed by expedition members), 400 expedition reports, and 100 videos/films and 35 boxes of … Read more…
In the near future, the AAC library is scheduled to receive a collection of rare and unusual climbing guidebooks from Armando Menocal, a longtime climber and advocate of climbing. We asked Armando to give us some background about the collection, why he started it, and the significance of the collection. … Read more…
One of our incredible volunteers, Tom Halicki, has been helping us get the first 5,000 books of the Central Asia Library on the shelves, and to advise on grant-writing. His love of books is also evident in this essay he wrote about a discovery he made in the rare book … Read more…
Bradford Washburn photographs on permanent loan to the AAC Originally uploaded by American Alpine Club Library We couldn’t afford manufactured compact art storage, so we designed and built it ourselves…I like to call it the Miracle of the Storage Room. Check out this flickr set to see the transformation from … Read more…
Astronaut John Grunsfeld’s Hubble Mission launches on May 11th, and he is taking one of the cameras from the American Alpine Club’s collection – Bradford Washburn’s Zeiss Camera. You can read more about the camera here, or listen to a recent NPR interview with John.
An AAC member recently asked us if we wanted an old postcard that Willi Unsoeld had originally sent him in 1976. It turns out that the postcard is an important historical addition to the library’s archives because the story behind it is a tragic one and one that is well-documented in John Roskelley’s book, … Read more…
We have a new photo set on our Flickr page to show you how things are progressing with the Clinch Central Asia Library. Included are some photos of the library as it currently exists in California. Last week we went to CA to pack the first 5,000 books into 160 boxes. … Read more…
Gabriel Loppe, Glacier of the Gorner and the Matterhorn at SunsetOriginally uploaded by American Alpine Club Library Part of the renovation project has involved creating new inventories of the AAC Collections. This week, we unpacked about 20 paintings that haven’t been seen since they were moved from New York in … Read more…
Twenty-five images from the collection of Allen Carpé have been posted to Flickr. See this for more info.
Earlier this year, we launched a project to record the oral histories of prominent AAC members. With the help of Cyns Nelson, owner of Voices Preserved, we were able to record eight oral histories during the Annual Dinner in February. Among the recordings we collected were those of Jed Williamson, … Read more…
Our colleagues from the Calcutta section of The Himalayan Club do a wonderful job keeping us informed of mountaineering news in their part of the world. We’ve received a press release from the HC announcing that the first Indian civilian ascent of Mt. Nilkanth (6595m) has been achieved. Another highlight … Read more…