AAC Honorary Membership

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:

AAC Honorary Member Fred Beckey with Former President Mark Kroese

Honorary member Reinhold Messner

Vitaly Mikhailovich Abalakov
Rick Accomazzo
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of Abruzzi
Buddha Basnyat
Robert H. Bates
Fred W. Beckey
Arlene Blum
Glen W. Boles
Walter Bonatti
Christian J. S. Bonington
Oleg Borisenok
David R. Brower
Joe Brown
Belmore Browne
Charles G. Bruce
James Bryce
John Buchan
Tommy Caldwell
H. Adams Carter
Riccardo Cassin
Yvon Chouinard
Nicholas B. Clinch
Norman A. Clyde
Arthur P. Coleman
John N. Collie
Jan & Herb Conn
William M. Conway
William A. B. Coolidge
Robert W. Craig
Ome C. Daiber
Kurt Diemberger
Jim Donini
Norman G. Dyhrenfurth
Robert C. Evans
Glenn Exum
Francis P. Farquhar
John P. Farrar
Benjamin G. Ferris
Edward Feuz
William O. Field
Douglas W. Freshfield
Tom Frost
Fritiof M. Fryxell
Francisque Gabet
John Gill
Adolphus W. Greely
Jules J. Guilarmod
Henry S. Hall, Jr.
John Harlin, III
Arthur P. Harper
Elizabeth Hawley
Kenneth A. Henderson
Maurice Herzog
Lynn M. Hill
Edmund P. Hillary
Thomas F. Hornbein, M.D.
William P. House
Charles S. Houston, M.D.
H. John C. Hunt
William H. Jackson
Kevin Jorgeson
Harish Kapadia
Andrew J. Kauffman
Layton Kor
William S. Ladd
Richard M. Leonard
Leopold III of Belgium
Jeffery Lowe
George H. Lowe, III
Albert H. MacCarthy
Ian Macnaught-Davis
Arisone Yuko Maki
George H. Mallory
Otis McAllister
James P. McCarthy
George Melville
Armando Menocal
Reinhold Messner
Maynard M. Miller
Dee Molenaar
Terris Moore
Arnold L. Mumm
Phyllis B. Munday
Tomatsu Nakamura
Noel E. Odell
Alison Osius
Robert P. Peary
Bernard Pierre
Glenn Porzak
William L. Putnam
Gaston Rebuffat
Louis F. Reichardt
Mark Richey

 

Thomas Riggs
Royal S. Robbins
Andre Roch
Theodore Roosevelt
Steve Roper
John Roskelley
Galen A. Rowell
Nazir Sabir
John Salathe
Audrey Salkeld
Peter K. Schoening
Douglas D. Scott
Vittorio Sella
Sir Ernest H. Shackleton FRGS
Eric E. Shipton
Oliver P. Smith
Jans Christian Smuts
Sydney Spencer
Allen Steck
Henry Lewis Stimson
Tony Streather
Edward L. Strutt
Lionel Terray
J. Monroe Thorington
Harold William Tilman
Miriam E. O’Brien Underhill
Jorge Urioste
Joanne Urioste
Randy Vogel
Charles D. Walcott
H. Bradford Washburn
Arnold Wexler
John O. Wheeler
James W. Whittaker
Edward Whymper
Fritz H. E. Wiessner
George H. Wilkins
John Edward (Jed) Williamson
Walter A. Wood
Fanny Bullock Workman
William Hunter Workman
Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Shi Zhan-Chun