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New Donor Incentives and Final Guide List Announced for Upcoming Pakistani Women's Climbing Camp
6/11/07 - The American Alpine Club pledged this week to match up to $2,500 in donations toward the Pakistani Women's Climbing Camp, as a show of support for the project and to encourage further donations. 5/29/07 - Dieckhoff has been in Boulder since 1979, and just about everyone knows him, but at present he is battling lymphoma, with dwindling funds and no health insurance (ongoing difficulties with a congenital hip defect and eventual hip replacement priced him out of being able to afford a policy). 5/22/07 - North Face athlete Heidi Wirtz and Trango athlete and AMGA guide Majka Burhardt support ovarian cancer through volunteer works with the HERA Foundation. 5/22/07 - Ovarian cancer survivor and rock climber Eden Ellman gets her employer and friends at the Boulder Rock Club involved with the Front Range’s first HERA Foundation Climb4Life event, a fun, climbing focused event that raises money and awareness for ovarian cancer. 5/22/07 - Local companies CAMP-USA and Great Trango Holdings develop products to raise awareness for the HERA Foundation, a Carbondale-based nonprofit that raises money and awareness for ovarian cancer research. 5/16/07 - The Pakistani Women's Climbing Camp, is a joint project of Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) and The American Alpine Club (AAC). A team of AAC representatives comprised of guides, a photographer and cinematographer – all of them women – will travel to Pakistan in July to facilitate a mountaineering course for up to 100 Pakistani women. 5/04/07 - Josh and Brett Lowell were awarded a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Camera Work for a piece on Chris Sharma's first ascent of Es Pontas, in Mallorca, Spain—the world's hardest deep water solo. 4/25/07 - Kismet Rock Foundation, a local nonprofit organization serving New England youth, invites community and friends to two upcoming events. 4/18/07 - On March 11, 2007, Isaac “Ike” Palatt, 21, took a 110-ft ground fall from the anchors of Soul Train, 5.12a, breaking both heels, four vertebrae, his left elbow, a rib, and bruising a lung. 4/17/07 - Sender Films and Big UP Productions are pleased to announce the 2007 Reel Rock Film Tour (www.reelrocktour.com), an annual event that showcases the best new films about the sport of climbing and brings together communities of climbers, outdoor enthusiasts and film aficionados for high-energy evenings of entertainment. 4/16/07 - Local companies CAMP-USA and Great Trango Holdings develop products to raise awareness for the HERA Foundation, a Carbondale-based nonprofit that raises money and awareness for ovarian cancer research, and volunteer at Front Range’s first summer Climb4Life event. 4/16/07 - For those who have always wanted to learn to rock climb, REI and the Boulder Rock Club are offering a series of learn to climb clinics. The clinics are free and are part of the HERA Ovarian Cancer Climb4Life event, which will be held for the first time on the Front Range this summer. 4/12/07 - The event, known as "50-50-1" will include climbing teams in all 50 states in the US, scaling the highest peak in each state on the same day. Each team will raise money in their area, which will in turn help to fund important research to find a cure for cancer, provide patient support services, and give a child with cancer the opportunity to attend Camp Sunshine. 4/03/07 - Montana humanitarian and mountaineer, Greg Mortenson, has received the prestigious Kiriyama Prize for his New York Times bestseller 'Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission To Promote Peace…One School At A Time'. 3/15/07 - Chris Hunnicutt, a 32-year-old Salt Lake City climber, lost his life on Tuesday, January 30th while climbing Stairway to Heaven (WI5) in Provo Canyon. A Outward Bound memorial fund has been created in Chris' name to enable other teenagers to experience the trips where Chris solidified his love of the outdoors. 3/07/07 - The AAC today released the online version of its world renowned American Alpine Journal. Published since 1929, the American Alpine Journal (the Journal) is the premier annual record of significant mountaineering and long rock-climbing ascents worldwide. 2/23/07 - In November of 2006, after a decade of climbing together throughout the world, North Face climber Heidi Wirtz and writer/climber Lizzy Scully decided to found Girls Education International, a nonprofit that supports the education of young women. 2/20/07 - Five College Outdoor Festival Amherst, Massachusetts March 2 and 3, 2007 Hampshire and Amherst College Campus. 2/13/07 - Osprey Packs, Inc., an independent pack company located in the high desert and mountains of Southwestern Colorado, proudly announces a pack recycling program with Albuquerque based not-for-profit, The Mountain Fund. 1/19/07 - “The Alpine Conservation Partnership is the biggest thing the AAC has ever done in the conservation arena,” said AAC member and Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard. 1/05/07 - The new Gallatin National Forest travel plan severely threatens access to the world-class ice climbing in Hyalite Canyon near Bozeman, Montana. Any climbers interested in this area can help by taking the short, secure survey posted on www.hyalitecanyon.com. 12/13/06 - Golden, Colorado - The American Alpine Club, Mohonk Preserve and Palisades Park Commission today announced plans to build a much-needed campground at the gateway to the Shawangunk Ridge ... 11/10/06 - In the last couple of years, climbers in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado have taken to developing the various crags that surround the area, though the history of rock climbing here goes back at least 40 years, and longer on the high peaks. 9/01/06 - Big Up Productions and Sender Films have teamed up with Windstopper to produce the first major international climbing film event of its kind. 8/31/06 - Yosemite National Park is announcing public scoping in preparation of the Tuolumne Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan/Tuolumne Meadows Plan and Environmental Impact Statement. |
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