Alpine Club 2021 Calendar
The Alpine Club’s calendar for 2021 focusses on the theme of glaciers and features beautiful images from the Club’s collection of paintings.
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Catherine Destivelle
The Alpine Club congratulates our Honorary Member Catherine Destivelle on being being awarded the 12th Walter Bonatti - Piolets d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award.
Details of the press release can be found at: http://www.pioletsdor.net/presse/2020/2020_PO_CP2-ENG.pdf
Alpine ClubCast 17 – 28th July at 19:30
UK climbing adventures
As our final ClubCast before the summer break, we are focusing on UK climbing adventures, so as to offer some inspiration for the coming weeks when the usual travel further afield may not be possible.
Richard Ive talks about climbing the ‘three’ great Scottish sea stacks in a 4-day push, Noel Williams talks about the traverse of the Skye Cuillin and Mick Fowler will focus on Skeleton Ridge on the Isle of Wight, but talk about other chalk climbs.
The talks will be followed, as usual, by a Q&A and then by a mountaineering quiz.
Alpine ClubCast 16 – 21st July at 19:30
An Evening with the American Alpine Club: Link Sar First Ascent
The Alpine ClubCasts head across the Atlantic for an evening with the AAC. Graham Zimmerman, Mark Richey, and Steve Swenson (guest of honour at the Alpine Club dinner in 2017) join us to talk about their brilliant first ascent of Link Sar (7,041m) in the Eastern Karakoram in Pakistan, one of the last great Himalayan problems.
Link Sar is situated in the Charakusa Valley and sits between the better known K6 and K7. After Jon Griffith and Andy Houseman’s first ascent of the North West Face of Link Sar West in 2015, a route they named 'Fever Pitch’, and an attempt by Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi on the North East face, the main peak was finally climbed by Steve Swenson, Graham Zimmerman, Chris Wright and Mark Richey in August 2019. Steve Swenson, for whom this was the third attempt at the summit, wrote on Instagram after his 2017 attempt: 'It's a complex and dangerous mountain, and we didn't reach the top. But we made a significant effort to find a safe route that avoids the objective hazards. We plan to return so we can finish what we started.' Join us on Tuesday to hear how they finally did just that.
As usual we will finish with a Q&A