AAC(UK) Expedition Fund

by Diana Penny Sherpani, Expedition Fund Champion

The AAC (UK) distributes funding to mountaineering expeditions run by its members if it considers such expeditions to be relevant to the Club's aims and of a worthwhile nature. This funding has been entirely donated by our members for this specific purpose. We are particularly keen to support small independent expeditions run and composed of younger members in the early stages of their mountaineering careers.

100 yard stare in Kyrgyztab
Photo by John Proctor

The fund was already in existence in 1972 when I became Club Secretary but no records from that period have survived. Current records show that, from 2004 to 2017, 37 expeditions have received grants totalling £17,600. Grants are very small, being £150 - £200 per person, so about 100 members have been supported. In earlier years there were only one or two applications but, since 2014, there has been a marked increase and we have had to introduce quite stringent qualification 'rules'. Our members seem to be getting to many far flung and remote mountain areas but, so far as I can remember, nothing to Africa!

Rassa Glacier, Nubra valley, East Karakoram
Photo by Mike Cocker

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