- Hundreds of first-person reports and photos
- The AAJ goes beyond social media and marketing copy with in-depth reports, carefully edited by a team of experts
- The "Recon" section covers the climbing history and new-route potential of Ushba, the "Matterhorn of the Caucasus" in eastern Europe
Published annually since 1929, the
American Alpine Journal is renowned as the world’s journal of record for long new climbs of all kinds. The
AAJ publishes each year’s most compelling mountaineering stories, told by the climbers themselves and carefully edited by a team of experts. Each year’s edition reveals newly discovered climbing destinations and unclimbed summits, from Alaska to the Karakoram, with hundreds of color photos.
Produced jointly by the Safety Committees of the American Alpine Club and the Alpine Club of Canada, Accidents in North American Mountaineering details what happened and analyzes what went wrong in each situation to give mountaineers the opportunity to learn from others' mistakes.