from V12 Outdoor - Climbing news
With the growing popularity of winter climbing in recent years concerns have been expressed about the potential impact upon rare alpine plants found on the Snowdonia winter cliffs.
The North Wales White Guide aims to address these issues and raise awareness amongst climbers of the presence of rare plants and how to minimise any potential impact [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
Earlier today, National Geographic announced the launch of its new Global Exploration Fund. The initiative is designed to research funding for conservation and exploration efforts in regional centers around the planet. The first of those regional programs will be in Stockholm, Sweden, where an advisory board consisting of a group of explorers and scientists will review projects to receive possible funding. The new Stockholm office will be led by Executive DirectorStefan Nerpin, who, along with his team,
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from INCLINED
Have you ever wanted to somehow combine your love of climbing and your desire to protect the environment—and actually get paid for it, rather than living in a van and leeching off your quickly diminishing savings? Well, you’re in luck! The American Alpine Club has just announced a new position operating out of the main office in Golden, CO—the Conservation Advocacy Director.  The Conservation and Advocacy Director will guide a national policy while responding to, prioritizing, and supporting the ...
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from UKClimbing.com News
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It is with great sadness that the announces the death of Alan Blackshaw on Thursday 4th August 2011 at Inverness hospital.
Alan was President of the BMC (1973 - 1976), a BMC Patron (since 1978), and a specialist advisor to the BMC Access, Conservation and Environment Group.
He was perhaps best known for the book Mountaineering from Hillwalking to Alpine Climbing (1966) published by Penguin books that many people simply called Blackshaw's Mountaineering. ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
I n a press release last week the American Alpine Club announced that hard copies of the American Alpine Journal will henceforth be only available to American Alpine Club members. "Our members come first," says AAC Information Marketing Director Erik Lambert. "Member dues directly support AAC programs: publications, community events, conservation, advocacy for climbers, grants, and more. Non-member sales of the AAJ required significant up-front investment and little return." Lambert also told Alpinist that
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from The Alpinist - newswire
The Access Fund recently released the first list of recipients for the 2011 Climbing Preservation Grant. Over $18,000 was given to seven different climbing and land management groups across the country. The grants are awarded twice a year to worthy individuals and grassroots organizations whose goals and mission reflect those of the Access Fund and the nearly 2.3 million climbers it represents. Unaweep Canyon near Grand Junction, CO has seen a lot of positive change since local climbers and the Access Fund
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from The Adventure Blog
As global climate change continues to change our planet in ways that we are still struggling to understand, one of the things that has become clear is that our conservation and usage of water is going to play a big role in our long term survival. Weather patterns are clearly changing, and as they do, once reliable sources of water are now struggling to keep up with the demands that we put on them. It seems that man has an unquenchable thirst for water and not just for drinking. We use it to irrigate our
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from INCLINED
The American Alpine Club (AAC) is proud to announce this year’s Award recipients. Every year, during the Annual Benefit Dinner, the AAC awards outstanding achievements in conservation, climbing, and service to the climbing community. This year, five climbing greats, ages spanning from 20 to almost 90, will receive awards: Fred Beckey, Bob Craig, Tom Frost, [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
Americans Kate Harris and Melissa Yule have just set off on an epic cycling adventure. The two young women are currently in Turkey where they put the final touches on their plans to ride their bikes the length of the ancient Silk Road last week, finally hitting the road on Friday. While that, in and of itself, is quite the adventurous pursuit, the ladies have bigger plans in mind as well, as they hope to use their ride to promote the importance of conservation in a series of Trans-Boundary Protection Areas
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from The BMC News
The BMC analyses the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition programme for Government and what this might mean for the outdoors.
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