🚨THE 2025 FALL GRANTS ARE NOW OPEN 🚨 The AAC wants to fund your passion for climbing! Keep reading to see what grants are open 👀 Cutting Edge Grant: funds individuals planning expeditions to remote areas featuring unexplored mountain ranges, unclimbed peaks, difficult new routes, first free ascents, or similar world-class pursuits. Presented by Black Diamond MFFG: funds climbers under 25 to go into remote areas and seek out difficult climbs—unexplored mountain ranges, unclimbed peaks, and difficult new routes are encouraged McNeill-Nott: Funds women who are pursuing an exploratory objective. Powered by Mountain Hardwear Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Grant: Funds expeditions that focus, primarily, on humanitarian efforts and, secondly, on an objective involving alpinism, mountaineering, rock/ice climbing and bouldering Fall grants are open until December 31. Click the link to apply now! https://americanalpineclub.org/grants 📷 1: Luca Raso is very tired and stressed out on Jirishanca Chico’s summit mushroom. PC: Eric Kanopkin 📷 2: Heather Smallpage 10 pitches up with the clouds that inspired the route name Lemnos in the Clouds. 📷 3: Berman coming up the South glacier of Batura Sar, with Sangemarmar Sar (6,990m) and Rakaposhi (7,788m) in the background. Credit: Maarten van Haeren 📷 4: van Haeren and Berman gearing up at 6,650m camp, where they would spend 36 hours on the descent in a white-out on the 6-7th climbing day. Credit: Sebastian Pelletti 📷 5: Pelletti hiking out from the Ultar Sar basin on day 10 away from base camp (the climb was 8 days). The exit from the valley is over a high col on the far right of the photo. Credit: Ethan Berman (fb)

New AAC Podcast Episode ⚡ On this episode of the podcast, we chat with Lisa Roderick about her book, A Place Among Giants: 22 Seasons at Denali Basecamp. As basecamp manager at Denali (also known as Mt McKinley), Lisa was everywhere and doing everything—going out of her way to help climbers even when it wasn’t in her job description. Her job ended up panning out to include: coordinating planes dropping off and picking up climbers and tourists; reporting weather over the radio to nearby pilots maneuvering the Alaska Range; reporting weather to climbers up on Denali without service; and occasionally supporting Denali National Park Rangers in search and rescue efforts. Really only accessible by small plane, the Kahiltna Glacier is its own unique, isolated world—full of inspiration, history-making climbs, risk, worry, fascinating climbing personalities, days sunning on the glacier, and moody weather. Dive into the episode to learn more about Lisa’s decades of experience in one of the most volatile and vibrant climbing hubs on the planet. Listen on Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Soundcloud or at the link! --> https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Kt0kXmYdT7YUaSJx9zjH2?si=Ey104XDFRKGMbm22NR3JRQ The AAC Podcast is presented by Patagonia and supported by OnX Backcountry, Adidas Five Ten, and SCARPA. 📷: 2021 AAC Mountaineering Fellowship Fund Grant recipient Tanner Josey and his team crossing the Kahiltna Glacier. (fb)