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…
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 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…
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…
I recently had the chance to spend the day with guidebook author and climbing pioneer Armando Menocal. As a founding member of the Access Fund and climbing guide, Armando has climbed all over the world and has been deeply involved in the climbing community for decades. He stopped by the … Read more…
AH McCarthy leading on Mt. Naiset, 1920s Originally uploaded by American Alpine Club Photo Library We’ve got about 4,000 Lantern Slides from the 1890s to the 1950s and volunteer Adam McFarren has been scanning them. He’s up to about 400, so it should take him another few years, which is … Read more…
Last week the AAC launched our new website. You have no doubt visited it numerous times by now to ogle it, I’m sure. One of my favorite aspects is the fact that the library catalog is now synced with the AAC member database. This means that your login and … Read more…
Today, in 1838, Scottish-American Conservationist—and Past AAC President—John Muir was born. As Muir’s biographer Steven J. Holmes puts it, Muir was “one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity.” Muir was integral in the preservation of one of our most storied and iconic National Parks, Yosemite. He founded … Read more…
So, we had NaNoWriMo in November, and now it’s National Poetry Month, with lots of different ways to participate. Mountain Poems. Climbing Poems. Odes to Fear and the joy of being up high. I found a grand total of 47 books about poetry by searching our library catalog. Have any of you … Read more…
“The Ascent of Mount St. Elias (Alaska)”, by HRH Prince Luigi Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi. Narrated by Filippo de Filippi. Illustrated by Vittorio Sella and translated by Signora Linda Villari with the Author’s Supervision. Westminster, Archibald Constable and Co., 1900. Butler and Tanner, The Selwood Printing … Read more…
This entry is a guest blog from AAC Library Volunteer, Katie Worley: My name is Katie Worley, and I am currently working as a Student Project Archivist in the American Alpine Club’s Henry S. Hall Jr. Library. I moved to Denver from Nashville in 2009 to attend The University of … 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…
For your book-mail and research planning: the library will be closed November 25-27 and December 24-Jan 3.
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…
Jean Mollicone : First American Woman to summit Mt Vinson, Antarctica September 21st 6:30PM AAC Library and American Mountaineering Museum To commemorate the 20th anniversary of her Vinson climb, Jean will recount some of the highlights of the 1990 expedition led by Mugs Stump and funded by a grant from the AAC. She … 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…
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!
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…
“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…
