DAV Summit Club
| DAV Summit Club GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1969 as DAV mountain and ski school |
| Seat |
Munich , Germany
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| management | Manfred Lorenz, Hagen Sommer |
| Number of employees | 25th |
| Branch | tourism |
| Website | www.dav-summit-club.de |
The DAV Summit Club GmbH is a German mountaineering school and a tour operator based in Munich. The company is a commercial subsidiary of the German Alpine Club e. V.
As a mountaineering school of the German Alpine Club and special tour operator, the DAV Summit Club offers training courses in all alpine disciplines as well as mountain and cultural trips worldwide. The mountaineering school is one of the largest in the world.
The spectrum includes: expeditions , alpine tours, ski tours, ski crossings, freeriding / deep snow courses, ice climbing, snowshoe tours, avalanche courses, mountain rescue courses, sport climbing, alpine climbing, via ferrata, alpine crossings, trekking trips, cultural tours, island hikes, bike trips (mountain biking, mountain biking, Racing bike), family trips and photo trips .
history
The DAV Summit Club GmbH developed from the mountain travel service of the German Alpine Club founded in 1957 . On September 21, 1957, at the general assembly of the German Alpine Club in the town hall of Füssen / Allgäu, the delegates from 229 sections approved the motion of Hans Thoma, advisor for training and mountain guides in the DAV administrative committee, "with a large majority".
From 1958 the DAV-Fahrtendienst organized under the leadership of Hans Thoma training courses, touring weeks, selected hikes in remote, particularly beautiful mountain areas and high mountain crossings. Right from the start, management was basically “authorized, specially selected and trained mountain guides for the travel service events”, including Otto Eidenschink and Anderl Heckmair , known as the first to climb the Eiger north face.
In 1969 the DAV appointed the state-certified mountain and ski guide Günter Sturm, the representative of a new generation, to head the travel service, which was also renamed the DAV Mountain and Ski School. The DAV mountain and ski school was to receive the alpine association's own alpine competence, which was seen as threatened when 120 state-certified mountain guides founded an independent professional association, the Association of German Mountain and Ski Guides (VDBS).
Increasing sales and profits required new structures, as the entrepreneurial activity endangered the charitable status of the German Alpine Club. In 1977, an independent corporation was founded, the DAV Berg- und Skischule GmbH .
Seven years later, in 1984, the name was changed to DAV Summit Club GmbH - Mountaineering School of the German Alpine Club .
The Sturm era was shaped by the idea of forming a marketable company, i.e. a development department for modern mountaineering, whose measures and products can be measured against commercial success. From 1969 on, Günter Sturm developed the idea of the "repeatable foreign mountain trip". One of the main prerequisites was the establishment of a global network of local trekking agencies - a partnership-based concept that is still used today and has been adopted by mountain tour operators that have been established later. From the beginning, the DAV Summit Club pursued the goal of "training to become a self-employed mountaineer" and organized expeditions for top alpinists from the very beginning.
With around 12,000 participants per year, DAV Summit Club GmbH is one of the largest mountain travel companies in German-speaking countries. The German Alpine Club is still the sole owner and thus 100% shareholder of the DAV Summit Club GmbH.
executive Director
The following people were or are managing directors of DAV Summit Club GmbH:
- 1969–2003: Günter Sturm
- 2004–2007: Günther Härter
- 2007 : Interim managing director Michael Roepke
- 2008–2011: Ralph Bernhard
- 2011–2014: Ingo Nicolay
- 2014–2015: Manfred Lorenz, Olaf Tabor
- 2015– : Manfred Lorenz, Hagen Sommer
Expedition successes and extreme trekkings
- 1969: First commercial expedition to Aconcagua , 6959 m , under the direction of Hermann Wolf
- 1971: First expedition to Nepal to Parchamo , 6273 m , Rolwaling Himal
- 1975: For the first time in the program: Denali , 6190 m , highest peak in North America
- 1976: First commercial seven-thousand-meter expedition to Trishul , 7120 m , under the direction of Erich Reismüller
- 1981: The DAV Summit Club is the first to offer trekking tours in Tibet
- 1982: First commercial eight-thousander expedition to Shishapangma , 8013 m
- 1990: Successful expedition to Cho Oyu , 8201 m , under the leadership of expedition leaders Günther Härter and Sigi Hupfauer
- 1992: First crossing of the Takla Makan Desert in China on foot , under the direction of Reinhold Messner and Bruno Baumann
- 2007: German first ascent of Koskulak Tagh , 7064 m , under the direction of Matthias Robl
Environmental commitment and social responsibility
Social aid projects
- Smoke-free kitchen stoves in Nepal : Active support of the non-profit project “Die Ofenmacher eV” www.ofenmacher.org
- Help for self-help in Pakistan : Active support of the association "Himalaya Karakorum Hilfe eV" www.himalaya-karakorum-hilfe.com
- Information on other projects at www.dav-summit-club.de/home/dav-summit-club/unserer-umwelt-zuliebe.html
Environment commitment
- “PRINT & FOREST” project : Climate-neutral production of the DAV Summit Club catalog: Mountain travel worldwide 2013. www.printandforest.de
- Climate- conscious travel : The climate protection organization "atmosfair" invests the voluntarily paid atmosfair contribution of the DAV Summit Club long-distance travel customers in renewable energies www.atmosfair.de
- "DreckSack" : Conceived as a garbage and storage bag in 1990, the "DreckSack" has meanwhile become an ambassador for a careful approach to nature. Over 21,000 dirt bags have made the world a little cleaner so far - a visible symbol of environmentally conscious action that benefits the project of the mountain forest offensive. www.facebook.com/Umweltdrecksack