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The first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club.It was once described as: "a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains" (Nuttall Encyclopaedia, 1907).
An Alpine Club is a country's senior mountaineering club. This is the subcategory page for Alpine Clubs Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories ...
AVE No.: the numbering of the group based on the Alpine Club classification (AVE). Numbers suffixed with lower case letters are groups that were further subdivided in 1984. These groups were part of a single unit before 1984. Name: name of the mountain group. Where names comprise two groups and where there are 2 articles in Wikipedia, both are ...
In addition to a large number of Alpine club huts of the Alpine clubs, there are also many in private ownership. The list includes some, but by far not all huts in the seven Alpine countries of Germany , France , Italy , Liechtenstein , Austria , Switzerland and Slovenia .
American Alpine Club Library, also located in the AMC. The AAC is a 501(c)(3) organization supported by gifts and grants from individuals, corporations and foundations, member dues, and income from lodging, publications and restricted endowments.
For numbering see the list of mountain groups in the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps. The Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (German: Alpenvereinseinteilung der Ostalpen, AVE) is a common division of the Eastern Alps into 75 mountain ranges, based on the Moriggl Classification (ME) first published in 1924 by the German and Austrian Alpine Club.
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The Club maintains an online "Himalayan Index" of articles about Himalayan mountaineering activities recorded in journals, magazines and books in its library. [4]Its members' activities are recounted annually in the club's publication the Alpine Journal, the world's oldest mountaineering journal, and interim newsletters are produced during the year.