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[11]: 347 As a member of the American Alpine Club Spitzer established the "Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Climbing Award" which gives $12,000 to several mountain climbing expeditions annually. [ 12 ] Mary Jobe Akeley, who explored the Selkirk Mountains and much of British Columbia between 1907 and 1914, was an early member.
Second, they promote an ethic of responsible climbing and conservation of the climbing environment. The Access Fund was originally the access committee of the American Alpine Club and was created as the climbing community realized the need for an organization to represent climbing and climbers' rights in the US. [3]
The first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club.It was once described as: "a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains" (Nuttall Encyclopaedia, 1907).
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.
The move follows the same step by BJ's larger competitor Costco, which in September raised its basic membership fee to $65 from $60, its first increase since 2017. Sam's Club raised its fees in 2022.
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.
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