Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
Climbing, or alpine, clubs form to promote and preserve the climbing way of life, including rock climbing, ice climbing, alpinism & ski mountaineering. Clubs frequently act as advocates to protect climbing areas, advocate for climbers around the world, preserve climbing’s history and chronicle climbing achievement.
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).
First, keeping climbing areas open and gaining access to currently closed climbing areas. 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 ...
The Red Dragon Society was founded in 1898 upon the transfer of NYU's undergraduate college from Washington Square to University Heights. [3] The Society inducts only rising seniors from the College of Arts and Science prior to their graduation. The Red Dragon is NYU's fourth oldest and perhaps most well known senior society.
Climbing is a major US-based rock climbing magazine first published in 1970. [1] In 2007, it was bought by Skram Media, the publisher of Urban Climber Magazine. [1] The headquarters of the magazine is in Boulder, Colorado. [1] [2] It is published nine times a year. [3] Climbing was purchased by Outside in 2021. [4]
Other magazines of record for climbing include the American Alpine Journal published by the American Alpine Club, the Alpine Journal published by the Alpine Club (of the United Kingdom), the Himalayan Journal, and Iwa To Yuki, a Japanese journal. All of these journals are often used by climbers planning expeditions, especially those who wish to ...
Todd Richard Skinner (October 27, 1958 – October 23, 2006) [1] was an American rock climber and expert in big wall climbing.He made the first free ascents of many routes around the world, including his historic first free ascent with Paul Piana in 1988 of the Salathe Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite; it was one of the first-ever big wall climbs at 5.13b (8a), and led to the birth of "free ...