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…
This is a repost from the American Alpine Club Library’s Blog, High Places. We’ve got a great relationship with several guidebook publishers: they’ve agreed to donate books to the Armando Menocal Guidebook Collection so that YOU can check them out! Here’s a list of recently added books from Wolverine Publishing. … Read more…
Attention all AAC members! Now you can purchase the new Revised and Reprinted book Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, by Brad Johnson at a $5 discount off the regular cover price of $36. This book is considered the best guidebook to climbing in Peru’s beautiful Cordillera Blanca mountain range. It … Read more…
Come meet the people involved with Tod Anderson’s new guidebook to the Devil’s Head and Rampart Range climbing areas of Colorado. Great granite, lots of new routes, and so close to Denver I don’t really want to tell you about it! The Rampart Range area of Colorado, located only an … Read more…
In 1939 the Savage Mountain claimed its first victim. Born into vast wealth yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain and, in the opinion of mountaineers, an even more … Read more…
Poudre Canyon Route Climbing by Craig Luebben, Cameron Cross & Bennett Scott Submitted By: Cameron Cross on Feb 2, 2010 Hi All, The Northern Colorado Climbers Coaltion has just released a new guidebook for the Poudre Canyon. The book, Poudre Canyon Route Climbing, features over 375 routes (of all grades) … Read more…
We had a few interesting visitors yesterday, as we sometimes do. The folks from Gibbon Slacklines stopped by to see if they could set up a line in the library. Turns out they couldn’t do it without crushing the sheetrock around the poles, but they DID seem to get pretty … Read more…
Just a reminder that if you are looking for some summer reading without spending money, the library can help, plus it’s a great place to sit and read on your rest day, or when it’s raining. And if you don’t live here – no worries! We’ll mail the book to … Read more…
Check it out: a long-needed guidebook for the Boulder Canyon area will be released next month by Wolverine Publishing. The new book is full of great photos, route descriptions, and climber profiles and looks to be a huge improvement over the past books. We’re pumped about it; what do you … Read more…
The American Alpine Club has approximately 580 climbing magazines and climbing club periodicals from around the world. Some, like the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (1830-1880) and Geographical Journal (1893-2009)are historic, and some, like The Alpinist (2002-2009) are considered classics-to-be. Journals are obtained by donation or in exchange for … Read more…
AAC Staff Check Out North Table Mountain Guidebook Originally uploaded by American Alpine Club Library Staff climbing days mean running up to North Table for the afternoon. This time, we took Jason Haas and Ben Schneider’s new book, North Table Mountain: Rock Climbs at the Golden Cliffs. The library has … Read more…
I just found this fun resource on a book-arts email list. Animated Knots! The link will live in the blog sidebar if you want to find it in the future.
We’ve added about 80 books and dvds to the library catalog. They’re ready for checkout – and ready for your comments and reviews! There are three ways to add a book or dvd review Write one and send us an email about it Put it in the comments section below … Read more…
Local climbers will be excited to learn that a new, updated guide to the Golden Cliffs is now available! Local authors Jason Haas and Ben Schneider of Fixed Pin Publishing just arrived with several copies of this must-have resource for North Table Mountain. Meticulously researched and filled with excellent photos, … 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…
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The last walls are down and we can now see how big the new space will be. Actually, that’s not much debris, considering what was going on in here the last few days: You can see the new walls on the right-hand side of the next photo. That used to … Read more…
Houston, we have a room! It didn’t take long for Tim and his crew to demo old walls and throw up a new one. Even our Preservation Librarian, Beth Heller, had an opportunity to take a spin with the SawzAll: Fortunately, we had the help of Bill (pictured below in … Read more…
Scroll down this article in the Ouray County News to the piece called “On the Shelf.” This is a description of a project that CMCF board member John Lacher and CMC Press Publisher Alan Stark have been working on for about two years. The book described in the article, San … Read more…
OCLC just signed an agreement with Google that will allow the two organizations to exchange data with one another. The result is that OCLC’s WorldCat will now provide links to the digitized books in Google Books. In return, Google Books will provide a “find this book in a library” link, … Read more…
We’ve added a sidebar to this blog called “Books by AAC Members.” Because the staff at the American Alpine Journal cannot review all of the books that authors and publishers send them (they receive dozens during the course of a year), we want to be sure authors who are AAC … 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…
See what’s new for June! AAC, CMC, and Friend members can call or email us to borrow these new titles. Be sure to visit our catalog for a complete listing. Remember, borrowing and shipping are free! BooksEiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father / John HarlinKhangchendzonga: Sacred Summit … Read more…