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  2. Appalachian Mountain Club - Wikipedia

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    Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is the oldest outdoor group in the United States. [5] Created in 1876 to explore and preserve the White Mountains in New Hampshire, it has expanded throughout the northeastern U.S., with 12 chapters stretching from Maine to Washington, D.C.

  3. American Alpine Club - Wikipedia

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    The AAC is historically and contemporarily associated with a number of other American and international organizations. It was a founding member of the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (Union International des Associations d’Alpinism, UIAA) in 1932 and the Arctic Institute of North America in 1948.

  4. 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).

  5. The Mountaineers (club) - Wikipedia

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    Members of The Mountaineers during the club's first climb of Mount Rainier in 1909.. The Mountaineers is an alpine club in the US state of Washington.Founded in 1906, it is organized as an outdoor recreation, education, and conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and is based in Seattle, Washington.

  6. 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.

  7. Garrett Madison - Wikipedia

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    Garrett Madison (born November 3, 1978) is an American mountaineer, guide and expedition leader. [1] Madison began guiding professionally in 1999 on Mount Rainier and has climbed Mount Everest 14 times. [2]

  8. Alison Levine (mountain climber) - Wikipedia

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    The book shares anecdotes from Levine's expeditions and from other "extreme environments." On the Edge earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly [9] and is a New York Times [10] and Wall Street Journal bestseller. [11] It was named Best Business Book of the year in the Management/Leadership Category by 800-CEO-READ. [12]

  9. National Outdoor Leadership School - Wikipedia

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    Breece, Nicholas, and Ericson formed the nucleus of the early board of trustees. Petzoldt was also an early Outward Bound Chief Instructor, and he wanted to establish a school which promoted concentrating on refining outdoor leadership skills. [6] The first facility opened in 1965 in Lander, Wyoming at Sinks Canyon.