![Mitsu Iwasaki will assume duties as the new Chief Executive Officer of the American Alpine Club on August 3. [Photo] Courtesy of the American Alpine Club](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/new-aac-ceo-mitsu-iwasaki-930x620.jpg)
The American Alpine Club announced yesterday that Mitsu Iwasaki will take over as its Chief Executive Officer on August 3. Iwasaki is replacing CEO Phil
… Read More »Mitsu Iwasaki begins duties as the American Alpine Club’s new CEO on August 3
![Matteo Bernasconi in his element. [Photo] Courtesy of Matteo Della Bordella](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/matteo-bernasconi-1-930x620.jpg)
As travel restrictions for the COVID-19 pandemic continue, climbers around the world connected remotely through Facebook on May 17 to raise their glasses in a
… Read More »Italian alpinist Matteo Bernasconi killed in avalanche while ski-mountaineering
![A screenshot of the Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Fest video. [Photo] Derek Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/online-film-fests-screenshot-930x620.jpg)
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread throughout the United States and the world, stay-in-place orders have forced a change of plans for all kinds of public
… Read More »Film festivals are offering free online viewings; here’s what we’re watching
![Nolan Smythe photos from the GoFundMe webpage. [Photos] Savannah Cummins](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/nolan-smythe-930x620.jpeg)
Nolan Smythe of Moab, Utah, was killed on March 6 while climbing Logical Progression (VI 5.13, 2,800′) on El Gigante in Mexico’s Basaseachic Falls National
… Read More »Nolan Smythe killed in rockfall while climbing Logical Progression on Mexico’s El Gigante
![Geof Childs is receiving the H. Adams Carter Literary Award at the American Alpine Club's annual benefit dinner on March 14. The in-person gathering was canceled because of concerns about the Coronavirus pandemic, and the event will be livestreamed online instead. [Photo] Geof Childs collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/geof-childs-aac-award.jpg)
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic–which recently reached Colorado–has prompted the American Alpine Club (to make changes to it’s annual benefit dinner (ABD), which is the club’s
… Read More »Coronavirus concerns prompt American Alpine Club to conduct benefit dinner remotely
![Climbing in Bears Ears National Monument, Ute (Nuu-agha-tuvu-pu) and Pueblo Territories. [Photo] courtesy of Ben Crawford/Access Fund](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/bears-ears-cat-wall-930x620.jpg)
This year–2020–is anticipated to be the year for the long-awaited court ruling as to whether President Donald Trump’s reduction of Bears Ears National Monument in
… Read More »BLM management plan threatens Bears Ears National Monument while lawsuits continue
![The famous Blue Bear outside the Colorado Convention Center, pictured on the first official day of the Winter Outdoor Retailer + Snow Show, Wednesday, January 29, 2020. [Photo] Derek Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/winter-outdoor-retailer-preview-1-930x620.jpg)
As Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz prepares to attend Denver’s third Winter Outdoor Retailer + Snow Show, he reflects on the rise of conversations about
… Read More »Another Outdoor Retailer, another opportunity to call for political and social changes
![Kyle Dempster in his elements. [Photo] Kyle Dempster collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kyle-dempster-solo-award-img1874-930x620.jpg)
Two grant application periods opened this week–the Kyle Dempster Solo Award and the American Alpine Club Live Your Dream Grant. The AAC application period is
We are sad to report that a series of avalanches has devastated villages in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir. Steve Swenson, a climber and author
The American Alpine Club Annual Benefit Dinner weekend will be in Denver on Friday and Saturday, March 13-14. Tickets are now available on the AAC
… Read More »American Alpine Club Annual Benefit Dinner features “climbers uniting for the planet”
![Derek Franz on Magnetar (5.13d), Rifle Mountain Park, Colorado. The Edelrid Bulletproof quickdraw is the first one clipped to the rope above the ground, near the lower right corner of the frame. The carabiner that the Bulletproof draw replaced was severely grooved. [Photo] Karissa Frye](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xedelrid-bulletproof-quickdraw-1-2-930x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.5cf6trqAS7.jpg)
Alpinist Digital Editor tested the Edelrid Bulletproof quickdraw at Rifle Mountain Park, a world-famous sport crag where the volume of traffic frequently destroys carabiners. The
… Read More »Edelrid Bulletproof quickdraw: The burliness of steel with the lightness of aluminum
![Mandi Franz follows the Vector Traverse on Escape Artist (III 5.10-, 7 pitches) in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado. [Photo] Derek Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a68-tcl-the-less-you-talk-1-930x620.jpg)
In this Climbing Life story from Alpinist 68, our digital editor Derek Franz articulates the value of staying quiet while climbing with his wife. “I’ve
