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Army values fitness and outdoor skills. Sport and outdoor adventurous training is part of the package you get when you join up. Adventurous training is part of normal army business, and can involve rockclimbing, abseiling, canyoning, whitewater rafting, sea kayaking, Nordic skiing or caving.
The Army Alpine Association is a voluntary club within Army that promotes ice, rock and snow adventure. If you want to learn how to survive and operate above the snow line, then the AAA is the club to join once you join up.
What is the Army Alpine Association?
The Army Alpine Association (AAA) promotes rock, snow and ice adventure for members of the ADF. By providing equipment, training and advice the AAA facilitates the aspirations of its members to seek adventure in an alpine environment.
The AAA is one of Australia's most enduring, successful and experienced alpine clubs. AAA expeditions have journeyed to every continent on the planet, and climbed the highest peaks on all of them (including Mt Everest), with the sole exception of the Antarctic.
The AAA is one of the Army's Adventurous Training associations, which are managed by Headquarters Training Command - Army as part of the National Army Sporting Associations (NASA).
The aim of the AAA is to encourage and promote leadership, confidence, initiative and teamwork, through alpine adventurous training for members of the ADF.
The AAA has approximately 250 members from all three services, comprising all ranks and both full time and part time members. It is led by a President and committee of management.
Activities conducted by the Association range from introduction to rockclimbing at a local crag, to major expeditions to the greater ranges of the world. A continuum of activities in Australia and overseas is designed to build the skills, experience and attitude of members to undertake expeditions to high mountains. This continuum begins with local rockclimbing, moves to Australian and New Zealand alpine exposure, then graduates to overseas alpinism. Additional interests within the Association are bouldering and rockclimbing, big wall aid climbing, caving and canyoning.
The AAA is the ADF's principal repository of alpine and high-altitude mountaineering expertise, and can provide advice to any service member, or organisation, on alpine-related skills.The AAA also provides instructional staff for ADF adventure training activities involving alpine-related skills.
AAA brief.Activities
Rockclimbing at Point Perpendicular, Beecroft Peninsular, nr Nowra, NSW
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| AAA member Josef T. climbing at Pt Perpendicular |
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Basic Alpine Skills course near Blue Lake in the Snowy Mountains
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| AAA members snowshoing in the Snowy Mountains, Jul 02 |
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Alpine Climbing in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
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| AAA members midway through a 'Grand Traverse' of Mt Cook, New Zealand |
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