The Iowa Mountaineers, Inc. is no longer a University of Iowa Mountaineering Club; the Iowa Mountaineers is no longer affiliated with the University of Iowa; and the Iowa Mountaineers is no longer a not-for-profit incorporated mountaineering club. The Iowa Mountaineers, Inc. went In-Active in 1996. This was done in memory of S. John Ebert, the founder, who died at age 89.
The back regions are now too crowded and the need for a
mountaineering club is no longer necessary. There are plenty of places to get
proper mountain training and to be guided safely up the mountain of your choice
in any
mountain area in the world. Jim Ebert, the son of the Founder's, who from the
early age of three has traveled with his parents on every Iowa Mountaineer
mountaineering camp held throughout North America continues on
with the family tradition of guiding special trekking and mountaineering trips
to six European Alpine countries to hike and climb the best the European Alps
has to offer; to the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca to trek in seldom visited
Quebradas and to climb the most spectacular Peruvian peaks; to climb East
Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya and to explore the spectacular
African safari game parks; to climb and hike in the New Zealand's Southern Alps;
to climb and hike in the Canadian Rockies, to hike and climb in the spectacular
mountain regions throughout North America and hike in the awesome Grand Canyon
of Arizona. Jim is presently offering seven National Top Rope Instructor
Certification Courses each summer.