Academic Alpine Club Bern
| Academic Alpine Club Bern (AACB) |
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| legal form | Association (Switzerland) |
| founding | 1905 |
| Seat | Bern |
| Chair | Roman di Francesco |
| Members | 130 (as of 2020) |
| Website | aacb.ch |
The Academic Alpine Club Bern ( AACB ) is an academic mountain association in Bern .
Activities and history
In 1910 the AACB had 35 members. He took over the Bietschhornhütte and the members had visited a total of 380 peaks and passes in the Swiss Alps and in the Caucasus , including 93 ski tours.
On November 26, 1924, the Swiss Academic Ski Club (SAS) was founded by AACB members Willy Richardet, Walter Amstutz and Hermann Gurtner.
Originally the club consisted exclusively of academics, but non-academics have also been accepted for many years. Women have been able to become members since 1984.
The club promotes alpinism and mountain sports and cultivates friendship. He conducts mountain, ski and climbing tours and courses, participates in the construction and maintenance of club huts, concludes discount agreements with other Alpine organizations (reciprocal legal relationship) and organizes social gatherings (lecture evenings, parties).
Huts
The AACB has three huts.
Belonging and reciprocity
The AACB belongs to the Fédération des Club Alpin Académiques de Suisse (FCAAS), 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.
Expeditions
- East Greenland 1952
- During the Swiss Himalayan Expedition initiated by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research in 1956, Mount Everest was climbed for the second and third time and the Lhotse for the first time. Members of the AACB played a key role in the expedition. Albert Eggler was the expedition leader. Hansruedi von Gunten , together with Dölf Reist, managed the third ascent of Mount Everest.
- Danish Dr. Lye Koch expedition 1957, 1958
- Ruwenzori 1958
- Svalbard 1960
Known members
- Walter Amstutz (1902–1997)
- Wolfgang Diehl (1908–1990), honorary member
- Albert Eggler (1913–1998)
- Christian Albert Hitz (1883–1954)
- Hans Kuhn (1884–1980), founding member
- Bernardo Moser, President
- Fritz Rüfenacht, President
- Walther Rytz (1882–1966), founding member
- Paul Rudolf Eduard Simon (1885–1943)
- Hansruedi von Gunten (* 1928), honorary member
- Hans-Fritz von Tscharner (1905–1984)
- Monique Walter, President 1993–1998
- Edouard Wyss-Dunant (1897–1983), honorary member
See also
Publications
- Club guide through the Engelhorns . Written by the Academic Alpine Club Bern, published by GA Bäschlin., Bern 1914.
- 100 years of AACB: Academic Alpine Club Bern 1905–2005 . Academic Alpine Club Bern, Bern 2005.
- AACB: Archive of the contributions in the annual reports from 1905 to 2016
