Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Grant

Dechristo · February 9, 2007

Applications are being accepted for the Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Grant (ZMBB).

Go to http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/page/51'>http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/page/51 for the link to the "online" abstract submittal form. If you are not familiar with the purpose of the ZMBB grant please take a minute or two and read the grant specifics on the website link (in blue) above. Please forward this mail to anyone interested in applying for the grant.

Thanks JP

American Alpine Club Website

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/

ZMBB Grant Website:

The Grant Fund Specifics The "Breaking Barriers" grant will be awarded to young, promising climbers and mountaineers to support the exploration of the unknown. This grant is different from others because their is a humanitarian aspect. Each recipient must "tackle" a worthy alpine objective but also perform a humanitarian service for the local people. Zack received several grants from the AAC, Anatoli Boukreev and others but he was never satisfied with only physical exploration. He wanted to explore the people, their customs and their hearts in an attempt to "give something back"......to...... "break barriers". This makes the grant unique and a most honorable cause. To date, we have collected around $35,000 and my target is $100,000 to we can offer $5,000 a year in perpetuity

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/knowledge/grants_Zack_%20Martin.asp

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/knowledge/grants_Zack_Martin.asp

Humanitarian Org Website For The Grant

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/knowledge/Hum_Orgs_AAC_Partners.asp

Zack Martin website at:

http://home.att.net/~zack_martin_breaking_barriers

Donations

American Alpine Club

c/o Grant Donations

710 10th St

Suite 100

Golden, Colorado 80401

Include on the check memo --

Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Fund (All donations are tax deductible) .

Thanks JP

John Parsons

wayne · February 10, 2007

What a great idea! GO for it lads! Represent.

Dechristo · March 14, 2007

forwarded email from JP:

The deadline for applying for the Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Grant is in a few days.

If you, or anyone you know would like to apply for this year's grant.....please do so.

Go to the link to the "online" abstract submittal form. If you are not familiar with the purpose of the ZMBB grant please take a minute or two and read the grant specifics on the website link below. Please forward this mail to anyone interested in applying for the grant.

Thanks JP

American Alpine Club Website

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/

AAC Grants Page

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/page/21

ZMBB Grant Page (Purpose, Intent, Abstract)

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/page/51

ZMBB Abstract Page

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/zmbb.php

ZMBB Grant Website:

The Grant Fund Specifics The "Breaking Barriers" grant will be awarded to young, promising climbers and mountaineers to support the exploration of the unknown. This grant is different from others because their is a humanitarian aspect. Each recipient must "tackle" a worthy alpine objective but also perform a humanitarian service for the local people. Zack received several grants from the AAC, Anatoli Boukreev and others but he was never satisfied with only physical exploration. He wanted to explore the people, their customs and their hearts in an attempt to "give something back"......to...... "break barriers". This makes the grant unique and a most honorable cause. To date, we have collected around $35,000 and my target is $100,000 so we can offer $5,000 a year in perpetuity

Zack Martin Website at:

http://home.att.net/~zack_martin_breaking_barriers

Donations

American Alpine Club

c/o Grant Donations

710 10th St

Suite 100

Golden, Colorado 80401

Include on the check memo --

Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Fund (All donations are tax deductible) .

Thanks JP

John Parsons

Dechristo · May 29, 2007

forwarded from John Parsons:

The 2007 Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Grant (ZMBB) has been awarded to

Fabrizio Zangrilli and Billy Pierson. Congratulations guys...!!

The Humanitarian Objective will implement the first phase of Girls

Educational International, the Khane Village Girls School Renovation.

Fabrizio and Billy will purchase , deliver and install materials that will

renovate the school. In addition, they will provide various school

supplies and provide a half year of salary for the local teacher. These

Muslim women will benefit from this effort in many ways including a better

school facility, a better general education, a greater understanding of

world politics, introduction to understanding women's rights, enhanced

health training and religious tolerance training. This is a grass roots

effort that will be continued by Girls Educational International that can

change the hearts and minds of Muslim women in Pakistan.

The Alpine Objective will attempt a new, 2900m, direct route up the south

face of K2 through mixed terrain for 2000', intersect with the Magic Line

and continue to the summit. Alpine style climbing without oxygen will be

the team tactics.....light and fast.

IF YOU HAVE A HEART, ALL DONATIONS TO THE ZMBB GRANT FUND ARE MOST WELCOME

AN APPRECIATED.

Info below discusses the grant, the American Alpine Club and how to make a

tax deductible donation.

American Alpine Club Website

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/

ZMBB Grant Website:

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/page/51

The Grant Fund Specifics The "Breaking Barriers" grant will be awarded to

young, promising climbers and mountaineers to support the exploration of

the unknown. This grant is different from others because their is a

humanitarian aspect. Each recipient must "tackle" a worthy alpine

objective but also perform a humanitarian service for the local people.

Zack received several grants from the AAC, Anatoli Boukreev and others but

he was never satisfied with only physical exploration. He wanted to

explore the people, their customs and their hearts in an attempt to "give

something back"......to...... "break barriers". This makes the grant

unique and a most honorable cause. To date, we have collected around

$35,000 and my target is $100,000 to we can offer $5,000 a year in

perpetuity

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/knowledge/grants_Zack_%20Martin.asp'>http://www.americanalpineclub.org/knowledge/grants_Zack_%20Martin.asp

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/knowledge/grants_Zack_ Martin.asp

Zack Martin Website at:

http://home.att.net/~zack_martin_breaking_barriers

Humanitarian Org Website For The Grant (Under reconstruction)

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/knowledge/Hum_Orgs_AAC_Partners.asp

Donations

American Alpine Club

c/o Grant Donations

710 10th St

Suite 100

Golden, Colorado 80401

Include on the check memo --

Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Fund (All donations are tax deductible) .

Thanks JP

Dechristo · August 20, 2007

Zack Martin 2007 Grant Update

Fabrizio Zangrilli, the 2007 ZMBB recipient, was turned back by bad

weather after a 36 hour push to climb a new route on the south face of K2.

He and his team may make another attempt but soon he will be headed to the

Khane Valley in Pakistan for the humanitarian portion of the grant. To

wit, to help build, outfit and partially hire a school teacher for

children of the Khane Valley.

Fabrizio will be working with Girls Educational International

www.girlseducationinternational.blogspot.com GEI has done some prep work

in Khane

talking with the village women. The word is that most women in the village

want the school and that they don't feel like taking the girls away from

the work in the field will be detrimental to the community. Instead they

feel like having the girls go to school will benefit the community.

Additional Information:

Journalist Lizzy Scully and North Face athlete Heidi Wirtz founded GEI, an

international non-profit organization to help educate girls and assist

with the construction, maintenance, and support of girls' schools around

the world.

Dechristo · September 25, 2007

1) Update on the 2007 Zack Martin Grant Award

2) An offer for a great climbing rope that supports the

HERA Ovarian Cancer Fund

3) Status Update From the 2006 Recipient

4) General Zack Martin Info And Donation Logistics

2007 Zack Martin Breaking Barriers (ZMBB) Recipient Update

Brief Synopsis Of Alpine And Humanitarian Objectives

The American Alpine Club Humanitarian Fund---- (ZMBB) is pleased to report

that Fabrizio Zangrilli and his team attempted a new route up the south

face of K2 and initiated the building of a school and funding of a teacher

in the Khane Valley in Pakistan.

Alpine Objective

There were only two summit days over the whole season on K2 and Fabrizio

and team were not staged to attempt a summit on a new route up the south

face of K2. They climbed up to about 8000m but were turned back by

weather. Also Fabrizio and team assisted in a minor rescue on the

mountain. This was the third attempt at the south face for Fabrizio and

Billy Pierson. They will return....to give K2 another chance to 'allow

them to pass'.

Humanitarian Objective

From Fabrizio's trip report:

"The Khane project was really one of the greatest 'adventures' of my

life". Abbas (a village elder) and I had organized a "Village Day" at the

school. I did this for two reasons: one to try and judge the people's

enthusiasm for the school project and also it seemed an efficient way of

meeting the village elders and the school committee. This event avoided

most of the usual village politics of which house to hold meetings in, who

would seem to be the most important elder, etc. Neutral ground seemed the

best solution. Most the village's children - boys and girls - attended as

well as over 50 adults. Khane has a total population of just under 500,

since we were still in the trekking/expedition season I feel the turnout

represented most of the adults (male- women do not attend such events)

that could be present."

Fabrizio worked with Girls Educational International and after agreeing

with village elders the importance of education and the Khane Valley

Project and action plan was developed and initiated for the girls school

and teacher.

For the detailed trip report see

http://www.girlseducationinternational.blogspot.com/ and also check out

http://www.girlsed.org/

HERA Ovarian Cancer Fund

Ovarian cancer has a survival rate of 5% and 1 in 69 women will be

diagnosed with ovarian cancer. HERA is fundraising for this horrible

disease . They 85% of their proceeds to fund research with young

scientists. BUY A ROPE and support this wonderful cause. For every rope

sold $35 to given to HERA. There are also necklaces, T-Shirts and other

goodies for sale. For the rope and goodies go to

http://www.daretodream2008.com/products/ Also see www.daretodream2008.com

and http://www.herafoundation.org/

2006 Zack Martin Breaking Barriers (ZMBB) Recipient Update

Synopsis

Last year's recipient designed, installed and has managed (from a

distance) a composting toilet in Huscaran National Park in Peru. The idea

was to slow pollution of the high park areas and to reduce down stream

pollution. The toilet has been a great success for many reasons and in

particular because the locals have supported the project though not

perfectly all the time. At any rate, much of the refuse is being carried

down valley by the arrerios and used as compost for increase food

production for both people and animals. Of course, removing hundreds

(thousands) of pounds of human waste from the watershed is outstanding.

From Adam French:

"Dear Friends,

Saludos from the Cordillera Blanca. I wanted to send an update from this

year's Peruvian journey before any more time flies by.

The trip began with several weeks of collaborative research with a team

made up of my advisor from UC Santa Cruz, a glaciologist from Ohio State,

a geochemist from McGill, myself, and a graduate student from OSU. I have

been following up on the composting toilet we built in the Ishinca Valley

last summer. This has been both a satisfying and frustrating process. On

the positive side, the toilet is standing tall and has collected around

800-1000 pounds of waste, much of which undoubtedly would have entered the

watershed otherwise.. Perhaps the greatest success is that, throughout the

season, someone (I'm still not certain who) managed to switch the barrels

as they filled.

On the down side, there was not the needed attention to facilitating the

composting process, which means we can't yet judge how well this system

may work at altitude (testing this system for high-mountain use is one of

the central goals of the project)."

My last two weeks here will be filled with providing technical assistance

to Huascaran National Park and planning activities for the Alpine

Conservation Partnership (see

http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/page/139'>http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/page/139 for further

information). I may even get to sneak in a climb here or there, though I'm

not holding my breath.

Best regards,

Adam"

General Zack Martin Breaking Barriers (ZMBB) Info