Academic Alpine Club Zurich

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Academic Alpine Club Zurich
(AACZ)
Logo of the Academic Alpine Club Zurich
legal form Volunteer Association
founding 1896
Seat Zurich
Chair Gregor Dürrenberger
Active President: Robert Gauss
Employees 117 (as of 2012)
Website aacz.ch

The Academic Alpine Club Zurich ( AACZ ) is an academic mountain association in Zurich .

Activities and history

Climbing, high-altitude, ski and trekking tours as well as expeditions are undertaken. An informal, sociable club life is maintained on traditional events such as the weekly trunk, the semester start and end of the semester, the foundation festival, the Christmas pub and the venison schnitzel.

The association was founded in 1896 by students from Zurich universities. Most of them were already members of other alpine associations, but had the desire to go into the mountains with like-minded student colleagues - and not, as was almost exclusively the case at the time, professional mountain guides on a rope. The "Association of Mountaineers at the Alma Mater Turicensis" initially had the double character of an Alpine club and a student union: This included customs such as the "Clubcantus" or the " Christmas bar ", but also the distinction between " active members " and " old members " . In this tradition, the club also had color cards produced.

In this phase of the pioneering days of mountaineering in the Swiss Alps, the members of the AACZ achieved numerous first ascents and first ascents, especially in the Glarus and Uri Alps . On January 5, 1896, Wilhelm Paulcke and Victor de Beauclair climbed the Oberalpstock for the first time on skis, a Swiss three-thousand-meter peak . Ueli Campbell made the first ski total exceeded the Mont Blanc (1930) as well as those of Monte Rosa (1931), including 15 four-thousand- summit.

The number of members is rather small (117 members, as of 2012). Students, doctoral candidates and postdocs can join the club as active members and, as old members, often remain loyal to the club for a lifetime and support it. There is no fixed tour program. The hundred-year-old tradition of self-responsible "guideless mountaineering" has been preserved. The AACZ is traditionally a very international club and a member of the Fédération des Club Alpin Académiques de Suisse (FCAAS).

Huts

The association owns the Mischabelhütte (built in 1901/02) above Saas Fee in the canton of Valais and the Windgällenhütte (built in 1908) in the Maderanertal in the canton of Uri . Both huts are open to the public and are manned. They form the starting point for high-altitude tours in the Mischabel region and for climbing tours and hikes in the Uri Alps . The AACZ also owns a self-catering hut in Fondei between Davos and Arosa , which is only accessible to members. The AACZ belongs to the Fédération des Club Alpin Académiques de Suisse (CAA), which in turn is represented in the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA). With this connection , he is on an equal footing with members of other Alpine associations and his members enjoy the right to reduced taxes. In return, he grants members of the other alpine clubs reduced overnight rates in his huts.

Publications

Several climbing guides have been written by members, such as B. the club guide Bündner Alpen 7: Rätikon or the alpine hiking guide Nordbünden, both by Paul Meinherz. The first club guide for the Uri Alps was published by the AACZ in 1905. This area was worked on by the AACZ until 1989.

The Swiss poet Hans Morgenthaler processed some of the mountain experiences in the AACZ in his books.

Expeditions

Known members

See also

literature

  • Dhaulagiri Expedition 1953: Mountains of the World. The book of researchers and mountaineers. Published by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research. Volume 9. Zurich, Gutenberg Book Guild, 1954
  • East Greenland Expedition 1964: Academic Alpine Club Zurich: East Greenland Expedition AACZ. July - August - September 1964. Zurich 1964
  • 100 years of the Academic Alpine Club Zurich 1896–1996: A commemorative publication written by Ruedi Kaiser. Zurich 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Morgenthaler: Your Mountains: Atmospheric images from a mountaineer diary . Akad. Alpen-Club, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-9521149-0-1 , p. 129 f . ( online ).
  2. ↑ http://couleurkarte.org/datenbank/Schweiz/Akad.%20Alpenclub-Zuerich.htm
  3. ↑ Marco Volken: Central Switzerland: Between Rigi and Gotthard - 50 ski tours (2009);
    Swiss Alpine Club SAC: The Alps 01/2017, p. 20
  4. ↑ Swiss Academic Ski Club: 37th year book "Der Schneehase" , p. 201 (2007)
  5. ↑ Swiss Glacier Commission: Glaciers in constant change, page 44 (1993)
  6. ↑ Erik Hoff: BJERGBESTIGNING I GRØNLAND (PDF; 884 kB) First ascents
  7. ↑ Biography Frédéric & Dorly Marmillod: Chapter 4: 1948–1959 To the Top of the Hemisphere ( Memento of December 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (first ascents)
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Marc Turrell: carnet of the Andes. Frédéric and Dorly Marmillod. 1938-1958. Editions Slatkine, Génève, 2015
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )