A Passion for the Mountains - The Alpine Club of Canada

2003 Grant Funded Projects
The
Alpine Club of Canada awarded
$12,500 in grants to ten worthy
mountain related projects this year.
Environment Fund
Melting Mountains Awareness Program
($1,400) – Ian Bruce, Vancouver Section
member, is the director of this undertaking
and has produced and will distribute a
brochure titled Melting Mountains.
Cliff Face Vegetation Communities
Project ($1,400) – Headed by Kathryn
Kuntz, Cliff Ecology Research Group at the
University of Guelph in Ontario, the project
will research and document the impacts of
sport climbing on vegetation on cliff faces
in the Niagara Escarpment area.
Jen Higgins Memorial Fund
Vampire Spires All-Female Expedition
($4,300) – Jasmine Caton, Lindsay Herlinger
and Amelia Patterson, will attempt new routes
and fi rst all-women ascents in the Vampire
Spires, a group of granite towers near the
Cirque of the Unclimbables in NWT.
Helly Hansen Mountain Adventure Award
Mt. Bute 2003 Expedition ($500) – Jia
Condon and Rich Prohaska, both Whistler
Section members, will attempt a fi rst ascent
of the 1525 m NW face of Mt. Bute in
mixed winter conditions.
Devil’s Thumb NW Face ($500) - Guy
Edwards, John McKim Millar and Kai
Hirvonen (non-members) for their attempt
on this demanding 6500ft objective of
located on the Skikine Icecap on the
BC/Alaska border in clean alpine style.
Tragically, Guy and John went missing on
the expedition and are presumed dead. A
memorium will appear in the 2003 issue of
the Canadian Alpine Journal.
Midwest Ice: A Video Guide to the
Thunder Bay Ice Climbs $500 – Jevon
Hagens, a Thunder Bay Section member,
will produce a video guide to the ice climbs
in the Thunder Bay region as a useful
resource for traveling climbers. A copy of
the video will be provided to the Alpine
Club of Canada’s library.
Hollyburn Ridge Oral History
Collection ($200) – Iloa Musfeldt
Knight and Tony Knight, members of the
Vancouver Section and The Hollyburn
Heritage Society, will continue to collect
oral histories from pioneer hikers, skiers and
cabin owners from the 1920s to 1960s who
are still living in Hollyburn Ridge.
Axel Heiberg Haute Ski Traverse
($1000) – Gregory Horne, Louise Jarry,
Steve Blake, Greg Statter and Grant
Dixon visit the Arctic for an unsupported
north to south six-week ski traverse of the
mountainous polar island.
Women’s Waddington Traverse ($2,200)
– Katy Holm, Vancouver Island Section
heads this expedition with Cecilia Mortenson
and Karen McNeill. They will attempt the
second ascent of this nine-peak traverse that
is considered the prize of the Coast Range.
Mountaineering Expedition to
Nyainquentangla East Range, Tibet ($500)
– Graham Rowbotham leads an exploratory
expedition with Adam Thomas, Phil Amos
and Bryan Godfrey. They will explore and
make fi rst ascents of the east range including
its highest peak Nenang (6870 m).
Annual application deadlines are
January 31. For further information
and application forms visit
www.AlpineClubofCanada.ca/funds
Alpine Club of Canada ● Gazette ● Summer 2003 23