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…
Today, The American Alpine Club announces that the application deadline for the prestigious Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Award has been moved up one month. The new deadline is December 1, 2011. The Lyman Spitzer program promotes state-of-the-art, cutting-edge climbing through financial support of small, lightweight climbing teams attempting bold first … Read more…
The American Alpine Club is pleased to announce that The American Alpine Journal—the world’s journal of record for notable climbs—is once again available to the public. In July the Club announced that the Journal in printed form would be available only to AAC Members. More than 100 climbers commented on … 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…
The American Alpine Club’s BMC Winter Meet Selection Committee selected its delegates for the upcoming Winter Meet and it must be said that it was difficult. The last meet—the BMC’s Summer Meet in Wales—was an easy choice, as only a couple of people applied (by the way, thanks Jay Hack, … Read more…
This year, The American Alpine Club is proud to partner with The North Face for their Speaker Series. The majority of featured speakers are proud AAC Members and all proceeds from the October 19, Jackson, WY event featuring Mark Synnott will be donated to the Grand Teton Climbers’ Ranch! This year, supporting the Climbers’ … Read more…
[Update. November 1, 2011: Team member Chad Butrick recently sent the AAC a link to his blog which features a great trip report from this expedtion up the Grand. Check it out!] A team from Veterans Expeditions, with support by Jackson Hole Mountain Guides, summited the Grand Teton on September … Read more…
The American Alpine Club is excited to be an official IFSC World Cup Partner for the first International Federation of Sport Climbing Competition held in the United States in 22 years. [Read our interview with Jeff Lowe, who organized the first World Cup event in the States.] Come out and support your … Read more…
A couple of years ago we surveyed climbers—Members and non-members alike—to see what was important to them about The American Alpine Club, the climbing community, and climbing in general. We’ve developed a new survey over the last several weeks and we’d like you to take it and share it … Read more…
Last week we posted some snippets from Steve Swenson’s blog posts on the first ascent of Saser Kangri II. The team consisted of Swenson (the current AAC President), past club President Mark Richey, and renowned alpine climber Freddie Wilkinson. Mark recently provided the AAC a full write-up, complete with pictures! … Read more…
— Update 10/18/2011: Congratulations to Scot and Bayard, our selected to delegates to the BMC Meet! — Every year, the British Mountaineering Council hosts an International Meet, a weeklong gathering of climbers from around the world. The AAC will send two lucky members to this year’s Winter Meet, located in Scotland’s Cairngorms. … Read more…
The American Alpine Club is pleased to announce the launch of its newest informational tool: The AAC Guidebook Finder. Sponsored by Patagonia, an AAC Industry Partner, the Guidebook Finder provides a Google Maps-powered interface to make finding one of the thousands of guidebooks in the AAC Library intuitive, easy, and … Read more…
Allen Higgenbotham traveled to Nepal to remove waste from Ama Dablam Basecamp. Below is his report on that expedition. He received a Scott Fisher Conservation Grant from the AAC for this trip. Learn more on our Grants page. Arriving in Katmandu for your first time I had an overwhelming feeling … Read more…
The American Alpine Club (AAC) formally announces today that the hard-copy version of the 2011 American Alpine Journal (AAJ)—and future print editions of the AAJ—will be available only to AAC members. This change from past policy was adopted by the AAC Board of Directors in February 2011. Full details of … Read more…
Today marks an important milestone in the AAC’s implementation of their Strategic Five-year Plan [read more about the plan here: http://www.americanalpineclub.org/p/5-year-plan ]. The Club is pleased to welcome John Bragg as the new Community Programs Director and Sarah Garlick as the new Northeast Regional Coordinator. Later this summer, the pair … Read more…
From mid April to mid May I had the opportunity to spend a month in Nepal. Three weeks of my trip was spent trekking the Annapurna Circuit. Of course the scenery on the trek was amazing but the most memorable part of my journey was the four days and nights … Read more…
[This entry, penned by Southern Appalachian Section Chair David Thoenen, was originally posted in September 2010, shortly after the conclusion of the Iran Climber Exchange. We've reposted it today as an introduction to the reciprocal part of the Iran Exchange. Several American Alpine Club Members are headed to Iran next ... Read more…
On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 17, American Alpine Club (AAC) Executive Director Phil Powers was injured in a climbing accident. Please visit americanalpineclub.orgfor the most current updates.Phil continues to make slow and steady progress and the need for daily updates has passed. We will update this site when major … 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…
On the eve of a hugely successful Annual Benefit Dinner in Seattle, the AAC Board adopted a bold new strategic plan. You can read the details of the plan here. But Ithink you might like to hear me explain it in person by taking a moment to watch this short … Read more…
As reported previously on Inclined, the American Alpine Club, the Access Fund, and the AmericanMountain Guides Association (AMGA) have been working with Denali and Mt. Rainier National Parks on their proposed mountaineering fee increases. The Club considers the small increases at Rainier to be a win for our and other organizations’ advocacy … Read more…
Mt. Rainier National Park has announced that as of today, March 15, 2011, climbing permit fees will increase $13, to $43. Additionally, a new Annual Youth Permit for climbers under 25 (who make up approximately 5-10% of the annual 11,000 permitted climbers on the mountain) will be available at the … Read more…
The Club has created a new space on our website, designed both to showcase the photography of some of our members and to provide an outline of material AAC membership benefits quickly and clearly. The photographs, from prominent photographers such as Andrew Burr and John Scurlock, are all available as … Read more…
—AAC Adopts New Plan & Raises over $200,000 at Annual Dinner— The American Alpine Club raises a glass of champagne to you in thanks and celebration! We’d like to clink bubbly flutes with you this week for a number of reasons: First, as of Friday, February 25, the AAC is … Read more…