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2010 Mugs
Stump Award Opens for Applications October 1, 2009
18th annual alpine climbing award opens grant cycle to small climbing teams with fast and light alpine objectives.
From October 1, 2009 through December 15, 2009, the 2010 Mugs Stump Award will be accepting grant applications from small climbing teams with fast and light alpine objectives. Established in 1993 to honor the late alpinist Mugs Stump, the Mugs Stump Award annually awards grants to a select number of individuals and teams whose proposed climbs present an outstanding challenge—a first ascent, significant repeat, or first alpine-style ascent—with special emphasis placed on climbers leaving no trace of their passage. Sponsored by Alpinist Magazine, Black Diamond Equipment, Ltd., Mountain Gear, Patagonia, Inc., and W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., the Mugs Stump Award once again encourages men, women and teams from North America to submit their applications for a part of this year’s $25,000 in grant funding.
Mugs Stump was one of North America's most prolific and imaginative climbers until his death in a crevasse fall in Alaska in May 1992. Best-known for his first ascent of the Emperor Face on Mount Robson in the Canadian Rockies and his triptych of brilliant Alaskan climbs—the East Face of the Moose's Tooth and the Moonflower Buttress on Mount Hunter, and a one-day solo of Denali's Cassin Ridge—Mugs was the complete climber, adept at all forms of the game. The Mugs Stump Award has helped committed climbers fulfill their dreams of fast, lightweight ascents in the world's high places. If you share Mugs' vision of climbing as a celebration of boldness, purity, and simplicity, and have the determination to bring your dream to life, you are encouraged to apply.
Past recipients reflect both well-known and relatively unheard of alpinists, with objectives that include major ascents in Alaska, Patagonia, the Himalaya, the Rocky Mountains, Greenland and more, details of which can be found HERE.
Further information and applications are available at www.mugsstumpaward.com. Climbs taking place between February 1, 2010 and March 1, 2011 are eligible. We encourage you to submit electronic applications via email or mail 12 copies of your application to Kristo Torgersen, Patagonia, 259 W. Santa Clara St., Ventura, CA 93001.
Awards will be announced by January 31, 2010.
Contact: Michael Kennedy, (970) 309-4651, mkennedy@sopris.net
P.O. Box 1383, Carbondale CO 81623
www.mugsstumpaward.com
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About the Mugs Stump Award
 All
of the alpine objectives awarded embody the spirit of
the late Mugs Stump. Mugs Stump was best known for his
first ascent of the Emperor Face on Mount Robson in the
Canadian Rockies and a triptych of brilliant Alaskan
climbs—the
East Face of the Moose's Tooth, the Moonflower Buttress
on Mount Hunter, and a one-day solo of Denali's Cassin
Ridge. He sought out striking and highly technical objectives,
preferably first ascents, in some of the most remote
mountains of the world. Mugs saw climbing as a celebration
of boldness, purity, and simplicity.
Applications
are reviewed for how they further the legacy of Mugs Stump
with climbs proposed in the spirit of adventure and exploration,
and that emphasize light, fast, leave-no-trace climbing.
Award applicants are evaluated on the strength of their
objective, the strength of their team, and on an objective
that raises the bar defining what is possible in alpinism
today. For more information on the award, past recipients
and their trip reports visit www.mugsstumpaward.com.
Applications are due by December 1 and trips
must be taken between March, of the year awarded, and
the following February. Winners will be announced by January
31st of each year.
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