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Layton Kor – an American climbing legend – needs help with his medical bills. Chip in here to help out. While you’re at it, you can split your donation and support other groups like The Access Fund…
Many people never have the honor of knowing how important they are to others. When Layton Kor, age 70 and seriously ill with kidney disease, agreed to a slide show at Neptune Mountaineering, in Boulder, the presentation sold out in nine minutes. The show was moved to Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado, and filled 1,200 seats.
“One word: iconic,” said Jim Donini—recent president of the American Alpine Club, which partnered with Neptune for the October show—in his introduction. Following a wild standing ovation, a visibly overwhelmed Kor gave the audience his all.
Now it’s time for us to give our all. Climbing community – start a regular monthly donation here and it will get to Layton via PayPal. You can give small amounts, anonymously, and to others at the same time. Try it out! I use it and love it!
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Layton Kor’s fundraiser, from last fall through now. Without the generous contributions from all the companies who sponsored the fundraiser with gear prizes, this idea would not have gotten off the ground. So many people pitched in to get us through the logistical and technical difficulties of [...]
Back in early January, I spent a week hanging out with Layton at his home out in the Arizona desert. On the weekend Albert Newman and Scott Baxter came out from Flagstaff for a visit. Neither had met Layton before, but like all of us, he’s always been their hero and an inspiration. One day [...]
Layton Kor has always been the most fascinating, inspirational climber I know of. As I learned to climb around the southwest, and then Yosemite and Europe, stories of his incredible pioneering climbs and spirit always arose. No one who climbed with Layton Kor ever forgot it, and the stories they told were stunning, funny and [...]
Thank you once again, to everyone who donated in January to support Layton Kor with his medical burden and his dialysis. Thank you also, to everyone who has donated since the fundraiser began!! Don’t forget, we are starting right now with February’s gear raffle, another awesome fat stack of gear which we will raffle off [...]
Happy New Year! Thanks to all of you for donating to help Layton Kor in November and December. Through the help of Big City Mountaineers, our good friends and new nonprofit partner, we were able to get Layton’s site and fundraiser back up and running in November. The community support from everyone is helping Layton [...]
“My Life in Spire Repair” The Third Ascent of the Leaning Tower, with Layton Kor by Don Lauria Layton Kor was probably the largest bundle of energy to ever climb a rock. Everyone is probably aware of his height – I wonder how many know how tightly wound he was. This guy was intense. Don’t [...]
After a huge and messy November fiasco with PayPal, who incidently is not OurPal!, the great Layton Kor Medical Fundraising effort is back in the business of helping Layton with his medical expenses. A big thanks to our wonderful friends at Big City Mountaineers for stepping up and partnering with us to help Layton out. [...]
Thank you so much to everyone who has helped with this fundraiser so far, to support Layton Kor with his medical expenses. We are rolling now with the monthly gear giveaways, which will happen on the first of every month, as long as we have all this gear to give away! Today I printed out [...]
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