Irish Mountaineering Club

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irish Mountaineering Club (IMC)
sport Mountaineering , climbing
Founded 1948
president Áine O'Reilly
Members over 300
Association headquarters Dublin , Ireland
Homepage irishmountaineeringclub.org

The Irish Mountaineering Club (IMC; German  Irish Mountaineering Association , Irish Cumann Sléibhteoireachta na hÉireann ) is an alpine association that deals with all areas of mountaineering , climbing and bouldering in Ireland . There are currently over 300 members.

history

The IMC hut

Bill Perrott and a few other mountaineers founded a mountaineering club in Dalkey Quarry in 1942 for the area of ​​the Irish county of South Dublin . They set up some climbing routes in the county area. This group, now known as The Old IMC , disbanded in 1944.

In 1948, Perrott founded the IMC together with Joss Lynam and other mountaineers - this time with the aim of accepting members across the entire island of Ireland and having sections in the larger cities of Ireland. The first president was the renowned naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger.

Over the next few years the IMC developed into the leading mountaineering club in Ireland. Sections were set up in Dublin and Belfast . Another section was set up for Irish emigrants who were now abroad. In 1957, with the help of a grant from the Guinness Brewery, the IMC acquired a farmhouse in Glendasan, near Glendalough, and converted it into a mountain cabin in the Wicklow Mountains under the care of the Dublin Section. This hut with 21 beds is now also available to non-members for an increased fee.

From 1960 further mountaineering clubs were founded in Ireland. The importance of the IMC decreased accordingly. In 1971 the Federation of Mountaineering Clubs in Ireland (FMCI, German  Association of Mountaineering Clubs of Ireland , today's name: Mountaineering Ireland (MCI), German  Mountaineering Association of Ireland ) was founded. As a result, the IMC abandoned its ambition to be the leading mountaineering association on the entire island of Ireland.

Another hut in the Morne Mountains , which was looked after by the Belfast Section, burned down in 1989, leaving several seriously injured. In 1991 the Belfast section was dissolved.

The association now operates almost exclusively in the Dublin region.

activities

The IMC organizes numerous outdoor and indoor events throughout the year. During the winter months, lectures are organized that are also open to non-members and deal with various aspects of mountaineering and climbing at home and abroad.

Every week in the summer there is a climbing meeting in Dalkey Quarry, a disused quarry. In addition, they meet in climbing halls for climbing. Since 1966, a climbing course for beginners has started every April.

The IMC also organizes trips for its members to mountaineering and climbing at home and abroad and supports expeditions to the Himalayas . The Kangla Tarbo 1 and the Ramabang were first climbed by IMC members.

Famous members

  • JC Coleman - geographer, archaeologist, speleologist , climber, and writer
  • Harold Drasdo - climber, writer and educator
  • Joss Lynam - mountaineer and writer
  • Sé O Hanlon - cyclist
  • Robert Lloyd Praeger - naturalist, writer and librarian
  • Frank Winder - Professor of Biochemistry and Natural Scientist

literature

  • IMC50: The Golden Jubilee of the Irish Mountaineering Club 1948-1998 , edited by J. Lynam and P. O'Neill (IMC, 1998, English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Alpine Journal . tape  85 . Alpine Club, 1980, here p. 164 (English, limited preview in the Google book search): “In 1971 the Federation of Mountaineering Clubs of Ireland was formed, and in 1979 it had around 30 member clubs…” History. (No longer available online.) Moutaineering Ireland, archived from the original on February 12, 2012 ; accessed on January 3, 2020 (English). History. Irish Mountaineering Club (IMC), accessed January 3, 2020 .