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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:

• Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely (Deceased)
• George H. Mallory (Deceased)
• Otis McAllister (Deceased)
• George Melville (Deceased)
• Terris Moore (Deceased)
• Arnold L. Mumm (Deceased)
• Phyllis Beatrice Munday (Deceased)
• Noel E. Odell (Deceased)
• Rear Admiral Robert P. Peary (Deceased)
• Bernard Pierre (Deceased)
• Gaston Rebuffat (Deceased)
• Thomas Riggs (Deceased)
• Arisone Yuko Maki (Deceased)
• Albert Henry MacCarthy (Deceased)
• Jules J. Guilarmod (Deceased)
• Henry S. Hall (Deceased)
• Arthur P. Harper (Deceased)
• Kenneth Atwood Henderson (Deceased)
• Sir Edmund Hillary (Deceased)
• William Pendleton House (Deceased)
• Henry John Cecil Hunt (Deceased)
• William H. Jackson (Deceased)
• Andrew John Kauffman (Deceased)
• William Sargent Ladd (Deceased)
• Richard M. Leonard (Deceased)
• Andre Roch (Deceased)
• Theodore Roosevelt (Deceased)
• Harold William Tilman (Deceased)
• Miriam Eliot OBrien Underhill (Deceased)
• Robert Lindley Murray Underhill (Deceased)
• Charles Doolittle Walcott (Deceased)
• Bradford Washburn (Deceased)
• Edward Whymper (Deceased)
• Fritz Herman Ernst Wiessner (Deceased)
• George Hubert Wilkins (Deceased)
• Walter Abbot Wood (Deceased)
• Fanny Bullock Workman (Deceased)
• William Hunter Workman (Deceased)
• James Monroe Thorington (Deceased)
• Lionel Terray (Deceased)
• Galen A. Rowell (Deceased)
• John Salathe (Deceased)
• Peter Kittlesby Schoening (Deceased)
• Vittorio Sella (Deceased)
• Sir Ernest H. Shackleton (Deceased)
• Eric E. Shipton (Deceased)
• Oliver Perry Smith (Deceased)
• Jans Christian Smuts (Deceased)
• Sydney Spencer (Deceased)
• Henry Lewis Stimson (Deceased)
• Edward Lisle Strutt (Deceased)
• Geoffrey Winthrop Young (Deceased)
• Baron Francisque Gabet (Deceased)
• Fred Beckey
• George H. Lowe, III
• Ian Macnaught-Davis
• James P. McCarthy
• Reinhold Messner
• Maynard M. Miller
• Dee Molenaar
• William Lowell Putnam
• Royal Shannon Robbins
• Nazir Sabir
• Douglas D. Scott
• Allen Steck
• Harish Kapadia
• Charles Snead Houston, M.D. (Deceased)
• Glen W. Boles
• Christian J. S. Bonington
• Oleg Borisenok
• Yvon Chouinard
• Nicholas B. Clinch
• Robert Craig 
• Kurt Diemberger
• Norman Gunter Dyhrenfurth
• Elizabeth Hawley
• Tomatsu Nakamura
• Maurice Herzog
• Lynn M. Hill
• Thomas F. Hornbein, M.D.
• James W. Whittaker
• Shi Zhan-Chun
• Sir William M. Conway (Deceased)
• William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (Deceased)
• Ome C. Daiber (Deceased)
• Robert Charles Evans (Deceased)
• Glenn Exum (Deceased)
• Francis P. Farquhar (Deceased)
• John P. Farrar (Deceased)
• Benjamin Greely Ferris (Deceased)
• Edward Feuz (Deceased)
• William Osgood Field (Deceased)
• Douglas W. Freshfield (Deceased)
• John N. Collie (Deceased)
• Arthur P. Coleman (Deceased)
• Robert Hicks Bates (Deceased)
• Vitaly Mikhailovich Abalakov (Deceased)
• Duke Abruzzi (Deceased)
• David Ross Brower (Deceased)
• Belmore Browne (Deceased)
• Charles G. Bruce (Deceased)
• James Bryce (Deceased)
• John Buchan (Deceased)
• Hubert Adams Carter (Deceased)
• Riccardo Cassin (Deceased)
• Norman Asa Clyde (Deceased)
• Jeffery George Lowe
• Fritiof M. Fryxell (Deceased)
• Joe Brown
• Walter Bonatti (Deceased)
• Tom Frost
• Louis French Reichardt
• Audrey Salkeld
• John Oliver Wheeler
• John Edward (Jed) Williamson
• Arnold Wexler (Deceased)
• Richard Manning Leonard (Deceased)