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American Alpine Club Library, also located in the AMC. The AAC is a 501(c)(3) organization supported by gifts and grants from individuals, corporations and foundations, member dues, and income from lodging, publications and restricted endowments.
The journal was established in 1929. [3] In 1957 and 1958, the editor was Francis P. Farquhar.From 1960 to 1995, the editor was H. Adams Carter, who brought the journal to international pre-eminence.
The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, commonly known by its French name Union internationale des associations d'alpinisme (UIAA; French for 'International Union of Alpine Clubs'), was founded in August 1932 in Chamonix, France when 20 mountaineering associations met for an alpine congress.
USA Climbing is the national governing body of the sport of competition climbing in the United States. [1] As a 501(c)3 non-profit, they promote Sport Climbing which comprises three competition disciplines: bouldering, lead climbing, and speed climbing, in elite, youth and collegiate formats.
James "Jim" Donini (born July 23, 1943) is an American rock climber and alpinist, noted for a long history of cutting-edge climbs in Alaska and Patagonia. [1] He was president of the American Alpine Club from 2006 to 2009, [2] and a 1999 recipient of the AAC's Robert and Miriam Underhill Award.
In 1993, the CMC partnered with the American Alpine Club to found the American Mountaineering Center in Golden, Colorado. [5] The building houses the largest mountaineering library in the world, as well as a state-of-the-art museum, which opened in February, 2008, and is named for famed mountaineer Henry Bradford Washburn Jr.
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Arlene Blum (born March 1, 1945 [1]) is an American mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. She is best known for leading the first successful American ascent of Annapurna (I), a climb that was also an all-woman ascent.