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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).
The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, commonly known by its French name Union internationale des associations d'alpinisme (UIAA; French for 'International Union of Alpine Clubs'), was founded in August 1932 in Chamonix, France when 20 mountaineering associations met for an alpine congress.
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.
The country club also faced discrimination lawsuits by former employees in December 2022 and February 2023. This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Alpine Country Club NJ lawsuit ...
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 ...
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.
The larger alpine clubs in Europe have a multilateral agreement to treat members of other clubs as their own members at their club's huts (reciprocal rights). These clubs include: the German and Austrian Alpine Clubs, the Club Alpin Français, the Club Alpino Italiano, the Swiss Alpine Club and the Federación Española de Montanismo as well as several smaller clubs.
The German Alpine Club consists of 356 legally independent sections with a total of ca. 1,520,000 members. [1] These are distributed all over Germany, the number and geographical density of the sections increasing markedly from north to south: for example, whilst there is only one section in post code region 17 (Neubrandenburg), there are over 20 sections in Munich.