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2003-2004 Cross-Culture Climbing Exchange
Grant |
The
Anatoli Boukreev Memorial Fund is proud to announce
the following grant awards.
2003 Steve House,
has been chosen to receive a grant to compete in a
speed climbing event in Kazakhstan
2003 - Valetova Elena
Evgenyevna: A young women from Almaty, Kazakhstan has
been chosen to receive a grant to climb in the US in
2003. Schooled in Economics and Management she works
as a Chief Accountant, plays classical piano and rides
horses competitively. Member of the Central Sports
Club of the Army, Valetova has numerous ascents in the
Tien Shan Mountains
Melis Coady, Aubrey
Knapp, Keri Meagher and Molly Loomis have been chosen
to receive a grant to attend a Russian Climbing Camp
near Almaty and then climb Khan Tengri. This group of
American Women are all NOLS instructors and Alaska
guides. Under a grant from the American Alpine Club
they recently completed a ski expedition to Kamchatka,
in Far East Russia. Briefly this is the American
Group:
Melis Coady Speaks
Russian, B.A. Central Asian Studies, NOLS instructor,
member of the Talkeetna Volunteer Fire Department,
ascents in Alaska include Denali and Foraker as well
as numerous ascents in the Chugach, Wind River and
Cascade Ranges.
Aubrey Knapp B.A.
from Berkeley, EMS Medic at the Girdwood, Alaska Fire
Department, NOLS Instructor, Ski instructor University
of Alaska.
Keri Meagher B.S.
University of Colorado, Kinesiology. NOLS Instructor,
Instructor at Alaska Pacific University, numerous
ascents in Selkirk, Alaska and Chugach Ranges.
Molly Loomis B.A.
Political Science, also studied in both France and
Argentina, fluent in Spanish and French. NOLS
instructor with climbs Alaska and rock/mixed climbs in
numerous areas in the U.S..
Please help us make
this tremendous exchange opportunity a reality.
You may
give by sending your contributions to:
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Anatoli Boukreev Memorial Fund
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Box 737
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a donation using your credit card or your checking
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MORE ABOUT OUR WORK
Anatoli Boukreev
shared his love of the high mountains with a passion
that transcended national divisions. He combined his
early training in the former Soviet Union with his
extensive Himalayan experience to achieve new levels
of physical and psychological endurance. Between 1988
and 1997, Anatoli made 18 ascents to8000 meters,
including eleven of the fourteen 8000 meter peaks
without oxygen- four within a ninety day
period-establishing difficult technical routes as well
as speed records. Friendship with his fellow
mountaineers from around the world was as important to
Anatoli as testing his abilities in the mountains.
Even after his death in an avalanche on Annapurna on
December 25, 1997, his example as a mountaineer and a
person has remained an inspiration to people around
the world.
Anatoli was
grateful for his training in the mountaineering
tradition of the former Soviet Union. His dream was to
see its emphasis on teamwork, structured competitive
training, and disciplined acclimatization survive and
be integrated with the individualistic style and
environmental ethic of the west. In his memory, the
Anatoli Boukreev Memorial Fund strives to celebrate
his spirit by providing financial and logistical
support for cross-cultural climbing exchanges
involving young mountaineers from Anatoli's region,
the Tien Shan and Pamir mountains, and from other
ranges of the world.
The
Anatoli Boukreev Memorial Fund has supported two
young Kazakh mountaineers on an expedition to the
United States and supported an American climber's
expedition to the International Mountaineering Camp in
the Tien Shan where he and two partners from
Kazakhstan climbed the spectacular and technical Khan
Tengri (7010 meters). We supported a joint Kazakh-US
expedition to Shishapangma (8008 meters) which reached
the summit and made the first snowboard descent of an
8000 meter peak, and donated climbing equipment to the
climbing clubs of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
With
this strong beginning and with your ongoing support
and interest, we will continue to provide financial
and organizational assistance for future exchanges,
expeditions, and high altitude training camps, to
celebrate and strengthen the bond of friendship shared
by mountaineers around the world.
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