Mountaineering Committee
The AMC Boston Chapter Mountaineering Committee meets regularly throughout the year, typically on the first or second Wednesday evening of each month.
Committee meetings are an important part of planning for instructional programs, addressing access issues, and overseeing other chapter activities. All Boston climbing community members are welcome to attend committee meetings. If you would like to attend a meeting and/or receive copies of meeting minutes please contact secretary@amcboston.com for connection information and/or to be placed on the distribution list.
If you are interested in joining the committee, please contact chair@amcbostonclimbers.com, we have two open positions below.
2024 Mountaineering Committee Members
| Chairperson: Frannie Bui |
| Frannie graduated from the AMC Boston Rock Program (2017) and AMC Boston Ice Program (2018). She is an enthusiastic volunteer of rallying students to haul the bucket. She is a recent addition to the Mountaineering Committee. She is a consulting coastal engineer by trade, but daydreams of places she has climbed where her two worlds of ocean and rock intersect -- favorites include Acadia National Park, Maine and Charleston, New Zealand. Besides climbing, her favorite activities in life are pun-making, cloud-spotting, and wave-watching. She can be contacted via chair@amcbostonclimbers.com. |
| Vice Chairperson: OPEN |
| Treasurer: Matt Day |
| Matt is a passionate New England climber and experienced non-profit organization accountant. He has volunteered with the AMC Boston Chapter Mountaineering Committee for several years as an instructor and activity leader. Matt can be contacted via treasurer@amcbostonclimbers.com. |
| Secretary: OPEN |
| Director, Community Educational Activities: Steve Keppel |
| Steve is responsible for coordinating additional training and development opportunities for the AMC Boston Climbing Community, including courses such as Wilderness First Aid and Advanced Rope Skills. He can be contacted via trainings@amcbostonclimbers.com. |
| Co-Director, SendHers Program: Hannah Chidekel |
| Hannah loves to spend her time climbing ice and rock, hiking, and mountaineering. When she’s not outside, she works in public health, dotes on her sourdough starter, and makes watercolor sketches. She grew up exploring the world through canoeing and camping with her family in southeastern Pennsylvania. Climbing made an early impression on her— she was a rock climber for Halloween in 5th grade! Hannah found SendHers through the 2022 Ice Crag Day and has been so grateful for the connection she has found here. She can be contacted via sendhers@amcbostonclimbers.com |
| Co-Director, SendHers Program: Rosy Cohane-Mann |
| Rosy is an outdoor and science educator, avid baker, practicing yogi, and happy rock and ice climber. She is super into sustainability and loves plants and trees of all kinds. She started engaging in the outdoors through hiking and backpacking as a kid and grew up in the Berkshire mountains of MA. She attended her first SendHers event in February 2020 for the Ice Crag Day before Covid and loves being part of this community and affinity space. She can be contacted via sendhers@amcbostonclimbers.com |
| Director, BIPOC Program: Maya Jade |
| Maya (she/they) is an outdoor enthusiast who loves all things nature. Maya Jade started climbing in August 2022 with affinity climbing groups such as Brown Girls Climb, Asian Climbing Collective, and QUICK. She completed the Rock Program in May 2023, the AMC Weekend Leadership Training Fall 2023, and has since been organizing gym nights, crag days, and climbing related events to increase access and knowledge across all climbers, esp women/ non-binary and BIPOC climbers. Maya Jade enjoys climbing because she enjoys spending quality time with friends, meeting new people with similar passion for the outdoors, and challenging herself to push the body and the mind beyond self-constructed limits. She can be contacted via bipoc@amcbostonclimbers.com |
| Director, Rock Program: Xiaoyu Chen |
| A Rock Program graduate, instructor and AMC Boston Rock Program committee member, Xi has assumed the Director role for the 2024 program. She can be contacted via rock@amcbostonclimbers.com |
| Co-Director, Ice Program: Katie Bartel |
| Katie first learned about the AMC through winter hiking in 2011 and subsequently became a trip leader and member of the Hiking/Backpacking Committee. In 2018/19, she discovered climbing. She went mountaineering in Uganda, dabbled in rock, and had one very memorable day on ice, but her climbing journey didn’t really kick off until she took the Rock Program (2019) and Ice Program (2020) and found this awesome community. Being a winter person at heart (she grew up in WI), she fell in love with ice climbing, started leading that season, and hasn't looked back since, traveling all over in search of ice. After COVID, she joined the committee, then became an instructor, and now, as Director, she's passionate about keeping the ice program’s legacy going by introducing people to this sport and this community. One fun fact: last winter she accepted a challenge to do 42 laps in the Flume – which will definitely not become an annual tradition! She can be contacted via ice@amcbostonclimbers.com |
| Co-Director, Ice Program: Ariana Wermer-Colan |
| Ariana took the Rock Program in 2014 as her first introduction to outdoor climbing, having had relatively little experience even indoor climbing. She fell in love with the activity quickly, but due to a move, she wasn’t really able to start using those skills until she found myself at an outdoor education job in North Carolina situated right at Table Rock, a multi pitch trad environment. Her climbing journey really kicked off there, and upon returning to the Northeast, she took the Ice Program in 2019 to reconnect with the AMC. She's enjoyed being a volunteer/instructor with the Rock Program, SendHers events, and the Ice Program, and more recently a member of the Ice Program Committee. She's best known in the ice world for her pants layering system. I encourage you to try to beat my record! In addition to my love of climbing, an ideal weekend includes some form of dessert, and some sort of game. She can be contacted via ice@amcbostonclimbers.com |
| Member at Large: Scott Kilcoyne |
| Member at Large: Diego Concha |
| Webmaster: Jordan Brauer |
| Jordan graduated from the AMC Boston Rock Program in 2018. He spend some time away from New England between 2021 and 2025 in Chicago, but has returned to climb and bike (and maybe paddle) around New England again. He is an electrical engineer by training, and has worked in on a number of embedded devices. He can be contacted via webmaster@amcbostonclimbers.com |
| Director Of Communication and Outreach: Seda Salar |
| Seda has been rock climbing on and off since her freshman year in her hometown, Istanbul. After moving to Nuremberg in 2017, being so close to and impressed by Frankenjura, she started climbing regularly, attended national and international climbing trips with German Alpine Club, and also learned about mixed and ice climbing which completely rocked her world. As many other vagabond neuroscientists, she was dragged to the US by her project in 2022, discovered AMC via the Ice Program'23 and became an AMC member before even finding an apartment in Boston! Being passionate about creating inclusive spaces for all, she has been volunteering with both climbing (drytooling nights, yeah!) and hiking/backpacking committees, and feeling so grateful to live close to the Whites. She enjoys creating music lists for carpools & cabin weekends and cooking for her friends while desperately waiting for the winter season to come. She can be contacted via secretary@amcbostonclimbers.com |
| Open Mountaineering Committee Roles / Focus Areas: |
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To learn more about any of these roles, please see our Volunteers page, or send an email to volunteer@amcbostonclimbers.com today!
To learn more about becoming an Activity Leader, please see our Volunteers page, or send an email to volunteer@amcbostonclimbers.com today!