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  2. American Alpine Club - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Nicholas Clinch - Wikipedia

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    He led the 10-man 1966–67 American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Vinson, the summit of Antarctica, and other high mountains in the Sentinel Range. [1] He was president of the American Alpine Club from 1968 to 1970. [5] He also made the first ascent of Tibet's Ulugh Muztagh, in 1985. [6]

  4. Mark Richey - Wikipedia

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    Mark Richey (born 1958) is an American rock climber and alpinist with a history of significant first ascents around the world, and for which he won the Piolets d'Or, the highest award in mountaineering, in 2012 and in 2020. [1] Richey was also made president of the American Alpine Club from 2003 to 2006. [2]

  5. The Access Fund - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. List of alpine clubs - Wikipedia

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    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).

  7. Jim Donini - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. H. Adams Carter - Wikipedia

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    Carter served as an officer of the American Alpine Club from 1954 to 1958 and as editor of the American Alpine Journal from 1960 to 1995. Under his tenure as editor the Journal became one of the pre-eminent worldwide journals of record for mountaineering.

  9. Colorado Mountain Club - Wikipedia

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    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.