Alpine Club

Alpine Club (AC)
sport	Rockclimbing
Founded	December 22, 1857
Members	1499 (as of 2019)
Association headquarters	London , UK
Official languages)	English
Homepage	Alpine-Club.org.uk

The Alpine Club ( AC ) is a club based in London and is the oldest mountaineering association in the world. It is a gentlemen's club dedicated to expedition mountaineering. The membership organization for British mountaineers is the British Mountaineering Council .

The Alpine Club was founded by British mountaineers on December 22, 1857 . During the golden age of alpinism he played a key role in the development of alpinism . The club's first president was John Ball , the first to climb Monte Pelmo .

For a long time the club maintained the usual standards of a gentleman's club and membership was conditional. A candidate had to be able to show that they had climbed a certain number of mountains. In addition, membership was reserved for men; this led to the founding of the Ladies' Alpine Club in 1907 . Only in 1974 did the Alpine Club admit women as members and merged with the Ladies' Alpine Club.

The head office has been in a former Victorian department store on Charlotte Road in London since 1991 .

The Alpine Club is a member of the multilateral agreement on reciprocal rights to huts . He has been a UIAA member since 2003 .

The club currently has around 1500 full members from over 30 countries, most of whom are British.

President

A chronological overview of all presidents of the section since it was founded.

Term of office president 1857-1860 John Ball 1860-1863 Edward Shirley Kennedy 1863-1865 Alfred Wills 1865-1868 Leslie Stephen 1868-1871 Charles Edward Mathews 1871-1874 William Longman 1875-1877 Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff 1881-1883 Thomas George Bonney 1884-1886 Florence Crauford Grove 1886-1890 Clinton Thomas Dent 1890-1893 Horace Walker 1893-1896 Douglas Freshfield 1896-1899 Charles Pilkington 1899-1902 James Bryce 1902-1904 Martin Conway 1904-1906 George Forrest Browne 1908-1911 Hermann Wooley 1911-1914 WE Davison 1914-1917 -

Term of office president 1917-1919 John Percy Farrar 1920-1923 John Norman Collie 1923-1926 Charles Granville Bruce 1926-1929 Sir George Henry Morse 1929-1932 Claude Wilson 1932-1934 Sir John Withers MP 1935-1938 Edward Lisle Strutt 1938-1940 Claud Schuster 1941-1943 Geoffrey Winthrop Young 1944-1947 Leo Amery 1947-1949 Tom George Longstaff 1950-1953 Claude Aurelius Elliott 1953-1956 Edwin Savory Herbert 1956-1959 John Hunt 1959-1962 George Ingle Finch 1962-1965 Howard Somervell 1965-1968 Eric Shipton 1968-1971 Charles Evans 1971-1974 ADM Cox

Term of office president 1974-1977 Jack Longland 1977-1980 Peter Lloyd 1980-1983 JH Emlyn-Jones 1983-1986 RRE Chorley 1986 AK Rawlinson 1986-1987 Nea Evans 1987-1990 George band 1990-1993 HRA Streather 1993-1996 Mike Westmacott 1996-1999 Chris Bonington 1999-2001 Doug Scott 2002-2004 Alan Blackshaw 2005-2007 Stephen Venables 2008-2010 Paul Braithwaite 2010-2013 Mick Fowler 2014-2016 Lindsay Griffin 2017-2019 John Porter Since 2019 -

Note: Alpine Club is also the English name for Alpine Club or Mountaineering Club. The name became a generic name .

Mountain guide monument

The mountain guide monument in St. Niklaus Dorf honors u. a. Alpinists of the Alpine Club as guests of the St. Niklaus mountain guides .

See also

• Alpine club

literature

• George Band : 150 Years of the Alpine Club. Collins, London 2006. ISBN 978-0-00-720364-2

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Catalog of Books in the Library of the Alpine Club , 1899 (PDF; 9.5 MB) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TheUIAA.org: Member Associations 2018-2019 - UIAA
2. ↑ Alpine-Club.org: About the Alpine Club
3. ^ The Alpine Club - an exclusive club , in NZZ from December 5, 2014