More Slides from the Kapada Collection

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Originally uploaded by American Alpine Club Library
Thanks to volunteer Pat Wallace, nearly 200 more slides have been added to the Lt. Nawang Kapadia Himalayan Slide Collection. This group includes images from the 1974 1st ascent of Devtoli, reached by a route through the inner Nanda Devi Sanctuary, as well as expeditions through the Panch [...]

A Project Like No Other

We have a new photo set on our Flickr page to show you how things are progressing with the Clinch Central Asia Library. Included are some photos of the library as it currently exists in California. Last week we went to CA to pack the first 5,000 books into 160 boxes. Only about 25,000 books to [...]

The Blog Has Moved!

We wanted to improve the services of our blog, so we started over with wordpress.com.  We hope you enjoy our new look!

Clinch Library Update

Construction of the Clinch Library will be finished in about two weeks. Mike (pictured above) spent several days painting the 40′x24′ room. Mike was a huge help when we were moving everything out of the space to prepare for construction. There would have been some broken backs if it weren’t for him.

Earlier this week, [...]

Upcoming Event

Where and When:

Thursday, October 23 at 7:00PM

Foss Auditorium

American Mountaineering Center

710 Tenth Street

Golden, CO 80401

Please join us to celebrate the release of the new edition of The San Juan Mountaineers’ Climbers Guide to Southwestern Colorado. Originally published in 1933 by Dwight Lavender, Carleton Long, and Art Griffiths, this book is considered to be one of [...]