American Alpine Club

🚨THE 2024 FALL GRANTS ARE NOW OPEN 🚨 Proceed with caution the @americanalpine wants to fund your expedition ⚠️ 💥Cutting Edge Grant: funds individuals planning expeditions to remote areas featuring unexplored mountain ranges, unclimbed peaks, difficult new routes, first free ascents, or similar world-class pursuits. 💥MFFG: funds climbers under 25 years to go into remote areas and seek out difficult climbs–unexplored mountain ranges, unclimbed peaks, and difficult new routes are encouraged. 💥McNeill-Nott: Funds women who are pursuing an exploratory objective. 💥Jones Backcountry: Funds amateur splitboarding expeditions. 💥Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Grant: Funds expeditions that focus, primarily, on humanitarian efforts and, secondly, on an objective involving alpinism, mountaineering, rock/ice climbing and bouldering. Click the link to apply now: https://lnkd.in/gBEuiEJa 📷: 1. Lindsey Hamm 2. Matt Cornell 3. & 5. Seth Timpano 4. Balin Miller

Mark Westman has been climbing in the Alaska Range for nearly three decades and was a Denali Mountaineering Ranger for ten years. He has attempted Mt. Russell, on the southwest edge of Denali National Park, three times by three different routes over 27 years. The third time was the charm, as he and Sam Hennessey raced to the summit in a single day in late April. It was only the ninth ascent of the 11,670-foot peak, and Westman believes the line they followed may be the most reliable way to reach this elusive summit. Read about the climb and the September edition of The Line. -----> https://lnkd.in/ggucWYfW 📸 1: The line of the Hennessey-Westman Route on the east face and south ridge of Mt. Russell. Photo by Mark Westman. 📸 2: Mark Westman on the Infinite Spur of Sultana (Mt. Foraker) in 2001. Photo by Joe Puryear. The Line is the newsletter of the American Alpine Journal. Join the email list at the bottom of the article!

The AAC policy team visited Capitol Hill this September and teamed up with Tommy Caldwell and joined our partners Outdoor Alliance to advocate for protecting public lands, improving outdoor recreation and funding the outdoors! All of us at the AAC find great joy and meaning in climbing, and we are committed to a thriving outdoor community sustained by healthy mountains and climbing landscapes for generations to come. 📸: AAC Director of Policy and Gov't Affairs Byron Harvison

The American Alpine Club's Grand Teton Climbers’ Ranch is participating, for the 16th year, in the Old Bill’s Fun Run. This is a fundraising and matching grants program run by the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. This generous program allows all donations to the Climbers’ Ranch to earn a 50% match from the Foundation. For example, if you donate $100, the Foundation also donates $50. Ultimately, the Climbers’ Ranch receives $150! Give today to maximize your impact: https://bit.ly/4dxrarJ *** Part of the magic of the Grand Teton Climbers’ Ranch (GTCR) is the juxtaposition of what is humble and rustic, with what is magnificent and grand. The Ranch is nothing elaborate, but each historic detail has been carefully preserved, so that each of our guests can use this beautiful, simple place as a launching off point to engage in the great adventures that inspire us. The volunteers who come back year after year to freshen up and improve the GTCR during “Work Week” have taken this humility to heart, and with great generosity share their skills and mentorship, so that new volunteers can become part of the traditions and community that the Ranch fosters. Whether it’s passing on carpentry skills, or a day of snow school in the mountains, humility, learning, and mentorship are at the heart of the GTCR culture. This year’s group of volunteers was our largest yet, generating an incredible amount of excitement and momentum. Such a rich community culture is only possible because of the ability to gather together in this iconic place. This culture is why so many people are deeply inspired to come back, and give back, year after year—the view of the Grand never gets old, but it truly feels like home because of the GTCR family. This year, thanks to our generous donors from last year, we were able to maintain and improve many aspects of the Climbers’ Ranch! Our most sincere gratitude goes out to you, our community—for all of your donations, both time and money. Year over year, the Climbers’ Ranch proves to be a special place, not just because it’s nestled at the bottom of the Grand, but because of the family of adventurers that call this place a home, even if only for a few days. And you are part of that family. The AAC is only able to maintain and improve the historic structures of the Climbers’ Ranch and our other lodging facilities around the country through the support of community members like yourself. Support critical, time sensitive maintenance and valuable improvements to these precious lodging facilities. Donate today: https://bit.ly/4dxrarJ

LAST DAY TO GET THE JUNE SHIRT Oh and these awesome benefits: ✅ AAC Grant Access ✅ Discounts: Gear, Gym, Guide Services ✅ Rescue Coverage ✅ Medical Coverage ✅ AAC Publications (American Alpine Journal and Accidents in North American Climbing) ✅ AAC Lodging Facility Discounts ✅ Support for policy work Get the shirt and the benefits. ---> https://lnkd.in/gR-3jMBt

Each book in the American Alpine Club Library is a portal to another world 📕 On July 15, 1865, English alpinist Adolphus Warburton Moore found himself Brenva Face of Mont Blanc. This climb would set the stage for many novels that inspired more climbs and endless stories of Mont Blanc. Read The Climb that Inspired the Novel that Inspired the Climbs: The Many Stories of the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc written by Katie Ives. ---> https://lnkd.in/gzTWVUC8

🚨AAC Submits Comment on Proposed Bears Ears Climbing Management Plan The public comment period for the Bears Ears National Monument Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement closed yesterday, June 11. The AAC submitted a comment which supports tribal co-management of the Monument, makes recommendations on zoning/area designations, asks questions regarding proposed permitting and closure criteria, and other topics of interest to the climbing community. Read the comment and learn more about the draft management plan in the article linked here ---> https://lnkd.in/gaHTRuTR 📸 Jeremiah Watt @miahwatt

"When Meg climbs on the Diamond these days, she can’t seem to shake a glimpse of red in her periphery–the color of Tom’s red Patagonia R1 as he climbed with her. Meg Yingling is an American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) rock guide, a lover of the high places, deeply embedded in our community—and intimately aware of the grief that haunts our sport. When she lost her friend, Tom Wright, to a climbing accident in the summer of 2020, her relationship to climbing radically changed—it mellowed and thickened and burst all at once. But thanks to the Climbing Grief Fund Grant (CGF), she was able to get the resources she needed to start processing her grief, her new relationship to climbing, and actively sit with the messiness of it all…” You can read about Meg's experience in the Guidebook XI article ---> https://lnkd.in/gFfXjtVT 📸 Jessica Glassberg / Louder Than 11

✨ Yosemite vibes ✨ The second annual United in Yosemite is right around the corner and we could not be more excited to see you all! "I am still processing the whole event. It was such a special place to be within a community that is so different from the climbing community we are used to in our respective local crags/gyms. It was so comfortable being around BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people the entire week and reminded me that I was not alone!" - Giselle Tungol, 2023 Participant This weekend is so much more than a climbing festival. Get a glimpse into the magic of last year's gathering and get hyped for the upcoming event! Only two weeks away! https://lnkd.in/gUxiQ3QX 📸 Miya Tsudome

United We Climb? Or United We VIBE?—The June T-Shirt Is Here ✨ Pack your boombox and rigid-stem cams, it's time to vibe out. This June, we're offering this bodacious limited edition t-shirt when you join the Club, renew your membership, or donate $30 or more. If you’re obsessed with the climbing vibe, this 80’s inspired t-shirt is for you! 🚨 Use promo code VIBE24 during the month of June only!🚨 Link in bio ---> https://lnkd.in/gR-3jMBt Each membership and donation is critical to the AAC’s work: advocating for climbing access and natural landscapes, offering essential knowledge to the climbing community through our accident analysis and documentation of cutting edge climbing, and supporting our members with our rescue benefit, discounts, grants and more.