Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Award

The Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Award is given by the Sierra Club

Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...

, and is named after club leader, historian and mountaineer Francis P. Farquhar

Francis P. Farquhar

Francis Peloubet Farquhar graduated from Harvard and came to San Francisco to set up in practice as a Certified Public Accountant...

. According to the Sierra Club, this award "honors an individual's contribution to mountaineering and enhancement of the Club's prestige in this field". It was first given in 1970.

Award winners

1970 Norman Clyde
Norman Clyde
Norman Clyde was a mountaineer, mountain guide, freelance writer, nature photographer, and self trained naturalist. He is well-known for achieving over 130 first ascents, many in California's Sierra Nevada and Montana's Glacier National Park...

and Allen Steck
Allen Steck
Allen Steck is an American mountaineer and rock climber, and a native of Oakland, California.-Mountaineering:Steck started climbing with his brother George. In 1940 when Allen was 16, the two completed the first ascent of the northwest ridge of Mount Maclure . He served in the U.S. Navy during...
1971 Richard Leonard
Richard M. Leonard
Richard Manning Leonard was an American rock climber, environmentalist and attorney. He served as president of the Sierra Club and the Save the Redwoods League, and was active in the Wilderness Society and the American Alpine Club...
1972 Jules Eichorn
Jules Eichorn
Jules Eichorn was a California mountaineer, environmentalist and music teacher.- Early years :Jules Marquard Eichorn was born in San Francisco on February 7, 1912 to Hilmar and Frieda Eichorn, who were immigrants from Germany...
1973 Glen Dawson
Glen Dawson
Glen Dawson is a California rock climber, mountaineer, antiquarian bookseller, publisher and environmentalist.- Early life :...
1974 Nicholas Clinch and Marjorie Farquhar
1977 Galen Rowell
Galen Rowell
Galen Avery Rowell was a noted wilderness photographer and climber. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972.-Early life and education:...
1978 John and Ruth Mendenhall
1979 William E. Siri
William Siri
William E. Siri was an American biophysicist, mountaineer and environmentalist. He was born in Philadelphia, PA and attended school in Audubon, NJ.-Education and scientific career:...
1981 Sam Fink
1982 Arlene Blum
Arlene Blum
Arlene Blum is an American mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. She is best known for leading an all-woman ascent of Annapurna , a climb that was also the first successful American ascent...
1983 Steve Roper
Steve Roper
Steve Roper is a noted climber and historian of the Sierra Nevada in the United States. He along with Allen Steck are the founding editors of the Sierra Club journal Ascent.Roper is the winner of the Sierra Club's Francis P...
1985 Richard Hechtel
1987 Lotte Kramer
1988 Gordon Benner
1994 Randy Danta and Doug Mantle
2001 Andrew J. Smatko
2003 Barbara Lilley
2005 Gerry Roach
2010 Greg Vernon

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