Honorary Members
Honorary Membership is the highest award the AAC has to offer. It is given to those individuals who have had a lasting and highly significant impact on the advancement of the climbing craft. The AAC is proud to recognize the following individuals:
- Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely (Deceased)
- George H. Mallory (Deceased)
- Otis McAllister (Deceased)
- George Melville (Deceased)
- Terris Moore (Deceased)
- Arnold L. Mumm (Deceased)
- Phyllis Beatrice Munday (Deceased)
- Noel E. Odell (Deceased)
- Rear Admiral Robert P. Peary (Deceased)
- Bernard Pierre (Deceased)
- Gaston Rebuffat (Deceased)
- Thomas Riggs (Deceased)
- Arisone Yuko Maki (Deceased)
- Albert Henry MacCarthy (Deceased)
- Jules J. Guilarmod (Deceased)
- Henry S. Hall (Deceased)
- Arthur P. Harper (Deceased)
- Kenneth Atwood Henderson (Deceased)
- Sir Edmund Hillary (Deceased)
- William Pendleton House (Deceased)
- Henry John Cecil Hunt (Deceased)
- William H. Jackson (Deceased)
- Andrew John Kauffman (Deceased)
- William Sargent Ladd (Deceased)
- Richard M. Leonard (Deceased)
- Andre Roch (Deceased)
- Theodore Roosevelt (Deceased)
- Harold William Tilman (Deceased)
- Miriam Eliot OBrien Underhill (Deceased)
- Robert Lindley Murray Underhill (Deceased)
- Charles Doolittle Walcott (Deceased)
- Bradford Washburn (Deceased)
- Edward Whymper (Deceased)
- Fritz Herman Ernst Wiessner (Deceased)
- George Hubert Wilkins (Deceased)
- Walter Abbot Wood (Deceased)
- Fanny Bullock Workman (Deceased)
- William Hunter Workman (Deceased)
- James Monroe Thorington (Deceased)
- Lionel Terray (Deceased)
- Galen A. Rowell (Deceased)
- John Salathe (Deceased)
- Peter Kittlesby Schoening (Deceased)
- Vittorio Sella (Deceased)
- Sir Ernest H. Shackleton (Deceased)
- Eric E. Shipton (Deceased)
- Oliver Perry Smith (Deceased)
- Jans Christian Smuts (Deceased)
- Sydney Spencer (Deceased)
- Henry Lewis Stimson (Deceased)
- Edward Lisle Strutt (Deceased)
- Geoffrey Winthrop Young (Deceased)
- Baron Francisque Gabet (Deceased)
- Fred Beckey
- George H. Lowe, III
- Ian Macnaught-Davis
- James P. McCarthy
- Reinhold Messner
- Maynard M. Miller
- Dee Molenaar
- William Lowell Putnam
- Royal Shannon Robbins
- Nazir Sabir
- Douglas D. Scott
- Allen Steck
- Harish Kapadia
- Charles Snead Houston, M.D. (Deceased)
- Glen W. Boles
- Christian J. S. Bonington
- Oleg Borisenok
- Yvon Chouinard
- Nicholas B. Clinch
- Robert Craig
- Kurt Diemberger
- Norman Gunter Dyhrenfurth
- Elizabeth Hawley
- Tomatsu Nakamura
- Maurice Herzog (Deceased)
- Lynn M. Hill
- Thomas F. Hornbein, M.D.
- James W. Whittaker
- Shi Zhan-Chun
- Sir William M. Conway (Deceased)
- William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (Deceased)
- Ome C. Daiber (Deceased)
- Robert Charles Evans (Deceased)
- Glenn Exum (Deceased)
- Francis P. Farquhar (Deceased)
- John P. Farrar (Deceased)
- Benjamin Greely Ferris (Deceased)
- Edward Feuz (Deceased)
- William Osgood Field (Deceased)
- Douglas W. Freshfield (Deceased)
- John N. Collie (Deceased)
- Arthur P. Coleman (Deceased)
- Robert Hicks Bates (Deceased)
- Vitaly Mikhailovich Abalakov (Deceased)
- Duke Abruzzi (Deceased)
- David Ross Brower (Deceased)
- Belmore Browne (Deceased)
- Charles G. Bruce (Deceased)
- James Bryce (Deceased)
- John Buchan (Deceased)
- Hubert Adams Carter (Deceased)
- Riccardo Cassin (Deceased)
- Norman Asa Clyde (Deceased)
- Jeffery George Lowe
- Fritiof M. Fryxell (Deceased)
- Joe Brown
- Walter Bonatti (Deceased)
- Tom Frost
- Louis French Reichardt
- Audrey Salkeld
- John Oliver Wheeler
- John Edward (Jed) Williamson
- Arnold Wexler (Deceased)
- Richard Manning Leonard (Deceased)