Alan Arnette doesn’t get much rest. It seems like the climber is barely back from his Everest 2010 season and he’s already announcing his next mission, and it’s personal.

The 7 Summits Climbs For Alzheimers: Memories Are Everything expedition is Arnette’s attempt to summit each continent’s highest peak, in just one year, all to raise money for Alzheimer’s research. His mother Ida, who passed away in 2009, struggled with the disease, and he first began planning this journey in the months before she died.

Arnette is off to Antarctica first, in just a few weeks, to get his start at the top of Mt Vinson (16,066 feet). He then heads north to Aconcagua in Argentina (22,841 feet), and then jets over to the Himalayas in time for that small spring window to get up to his old stomping grounds, the top of Everest (29,035 feet). He’ll then go for Denali (20,320 feet) in the US, Kilimanjaro (19,340 feet) in Tanzania, and Elbrus (18,481 feet) in Russia. He’s saving the technical climb of Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia (16,023 feet) for last, and he plans to throw in a bonus climb up Kosciuszko (7,310 feet) in Australia, as some consider this necessary to get to the highest point of every continent.

On his blog, Arnette writes:

I will climb the 7 Summits in 2010 and 2011 and conduct fund raising events before, during and after each expedition. My supporters are the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund and International Mountain Guides plus Outside Online following the journey with updates I send directly from the climbs. You are invited to join on a climb or a trek, help with a fund raising event or make a donation today. Together we can make a world without Alzheimer’s.

One suggestion is to donate a penny for every foot climbed on a particular mountain (up and down). Carstensz Pyramid, the shortest, would cost you $36 for the cause, while Everest, the tallest, would set you back $196. Kilimanjaro would total $140.