![Sam Hennesse. [Photo] Seth Timpano](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/aac-cutting-edge-grants-1.jpg)
Sam Hennessey, Chantel Astorga and Chris Wright are all receiving American Alpine Club Cutting Edge Grants this year. Hennessey plans to attempt the north face… Read More »American Alpine Club announces three Cutting Edge Grant recipients
![[Illustration] Andreas Schmidt](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a55-full-value-1-930x620.jpg)
In this 2016 Full Value story from Alpinist 55, Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz peers into the dark side of the dirtbag dream.
![Kyle Dempster in his elements. [Photo] Andrew Burr](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kyle-dempster-packrafting-file-photo-1-930x620.jpeg)
The application period is now open for the second annual Kyle Dempster Solo Adventure Award. Applications are due by March 15 for trips taking place… Read More »Application period opens for 2019 Kyle Dempster Solo Adventure Award
![Katie Ives. [Photo] David Swift](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/katie-ives-portrait-698x620.jpg)
Alpinist Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives has been selected as a judge for the 2019 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. The other two judges are Roger… Read More »Alpinist Editor-in-Chief selected as a judge for the Boardman Tasker Award
The American Alpine Club recently announced the award recipients who will be honored at the club’s annual benefit dinner on March 9 in San Francisco,… Read More »American Alpine Club announces 2019 award recipients
![Whitney Clark (pictured), Josie McKee and Caro North received a 2018 Grit and Rock Award to attempt a first ascent on Arjuna (6230m) in India's Kishtwar Province. [Photo] Josie McKee](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/whitney-clark-on-arjuna-north-930x620.jpg)
The Grit and Rock First Ascent Expedition Award for female alpinists is now accepting applications until January 15, 2019. The program launched in October 2016… Read More »Grit and Rock grant applications due by January 15
![Keita Kurakami (left) and Connor Herson after their respective free ascents of the Nose (VI 5.14a, 2,900') of El Capitan. [Photos] Keita Kurakami collection/Jim Herson](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kurakami-herson-nose-ascents-1-930x620.jpg)
Two historic free ascents happened within the last several days on the Nose (VI 5.14a, 2,900′) of El Capitan: Keita Kurakami free climbed the route… Read More »Keita Kurakami frees El Capitan’s Nose as a rope-solo and 15-year-old Connor Herson becomes the youngest to free the iconic wall
![Derek Franz gets his bearings using the SPOT X 2-Way Satellite Messenger in Colorado's Flat Tops Wilderness in late October 2018. [Photo] Mandi Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/spot-x-1-2-930x620.jpg)
Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz took the SPOT X 2-Way Satellite Messenger into the mountains and desert to test its capabilities. He appreciated the device’s… Read More »SPOT X 2-Way Satellite Messenger: A worthy tool for explorers and risk-takers
![Madaleine Sorkin climbs by headlamp on Scenic Cruise in the Black Canyon on October 29. [Photo] Henna Taylor](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/black-canyon-grief-fund-linkup-1-1-930x620.jpg)
Madaleine Sorkin and Mary Harlan raised awareness for the Climbing Grief Fund by climbing two routes in the Black Canyon in a day on October… Read More »Update: Scientists study loose flake in Black Canyon while Sorkin and Harlan climb for the Grief Fund
![Alan Rousseau, pictured here on the first ascent of Rungofarka's north ridge, India, in 2017, was a 2018 recipient of the American Alpine Club's Cutting Edge Grant. Applications for the 2019 Cutting Edge Grant are due by November 30. [Photo] Tino Villanueva](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rungofarka-6-930x620.jpg)
The American Alpine Club is now accepting applications for its Cutting Edge Grant, the Jones Backcountry Adventure Grant and the Jones Live Like Liz Award–due… Read More »American Alpine Club accepting applications for climbing and adventure grants
![Smith at the belay on Cyber Pasty Memorial (WI5+ M7+), Icefields Parkway, Alberta. [Photo] John Price](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/alp59-contraindications-7-930x620.jpg)
For the second year in a row, an Alpinist story has been selected for the Best Mountaineering Article Award in the Banff Mountain Book Competition.… Read More »Alpinist story receives Best Mountaineering Article Award at Banff Book Competition
![The northeast face of Cerro Kishtwar (6173m) with All Izz Well (VI WI5 M6, 1500m) marked in red with the team's first bivy site. [Photo] Genki Narumi, Yusuke Sato and Hiroki Yamamoto collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cerro-kishtwar-all-izz-well-1-930x620.jpg)
Going light and fast during a short weather window, Japanese climbers Genki Narumi, Yusuke Sato and Hiroki Yamamoto squeaked in a new route on the… Read More »Japanese climbers complete a new route on Cerro Kishtwar’s northeast face
