Book Club Reminder: July 14th – Forget Me Not, Jennifer Lowe-Anker, Jon Krakauer

The book club will resume on Tuesday, July 14th, at 6pm. Read more about Jennifer Lowe-Anker’s Forget Me Not, along with her artwork, on her website.
Learn more about The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation.
Book Club is held in the American Mountaineering Center on the 2nd Tuesday of every month but June.  Check in at the Library [...]

Fallen Giants

If you haven’t seen it, be sure to spend some time with Stewart Weaver’s and Maurice Isserman’s Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, recently published by Yale University Press. Increasingly hailed as the magnum opus of the history of Himalayan exploration, Fallen Giants has [...]

sPeaker Series: Clayton Laramie talks about Cochamo, Chile, July 1st, 7pm

Join Clayton Laramie, local American Alpine Club member, for a presentation on his recent expedition to Cochamo, Chile.
Clayton and friend Francisco Parada set off to establish a new route at El Monstruo but circumstances led them to the Cirque of La Paloma, on Pared de las Profetas. This is the first route to complete the [...]

Washburn Exhibit in the News

Check out the article in yesterday’s Denver Post about our new From the Favorites exhibit. Big thanks to Preservation Librarian Beth Heller and CMC Marketing Strategist Chris Case for carrying out the curatorial work, Museum Operations Manager Sarah Wood for logistical support, and a HUGE thank you to the donors who made the exhibit possible.
Twenty-one [...]

Colorado Environmental Film Festival Fundraiser- June 27th, 6pm

June 27, 2009
Doors open at 6:00, show begins at 6:30
American Mountaineering Center
710 10th Street
Golden, CO 80401
Cost $15
Join the Colorado Environmental Film Festival for a Night on Water featuring [...]

AAC Tribute to Jonny, Micah & Wade

Bradford Washburn Photographs – Opening June 8th at the Mountaineering Museum

A selection of Bradford Washburn’s photographic prints from his collection of personal favorites will open at the American Mountaineering Museum on June 8th. The show is scheduled to run through October 26th, 2009.
There will be two rounds of 18-20 prints hung in the museum. The first round (June to mid-August) will be a selection of [...]

sPeaker Series: Today! Wednesday, June 3, 7pm

June 3rd, 2009 @ 7:00PM (Museum Reception @ 5:30)

The Mountaineering Museum presents:
Author and Geologist Jack Reed on his book Rocks Above The Clouds

Rocks Above the Clouds by Jack Reed and Gene Ellis is the first geology primer written specifically for hikers, scramblers and climbers. It is an exploration of how the nature of mountains [...]