New Zealand Alpine Club

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New Zealand Alpine Club (NZAC)
sport Rockclimbing
Founded 1891
societies 12 sections
Members 4010 (as of 2019)
Association headquarters Christchurch , New Zealand
Official languages) New Zealand English
Homepage alpineclub.org.nz

The New Zealand Alpine Club ( NZAC ) ( German  New Zealand Alpine Club ) was founded in 1891, and is one of the oldest alpine clubs in the world.

The NZAC is the national climbing organization in New Zealand and a member of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme , of which it is a founding member. Edmund Hillary has been an honorary member of the UIAA since 1992. It has over 4,000 members spread across twelve sections (eleven in New Zealand and one in Australia ), plus members in other countries. He runs a national office based in Christchurch .

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The club actively promotes climbing in New Zealand and overseas. He publishes travel guides to the mountains of New Zealand and selected mountaineering areas, and makes this information available online.

He publishes a quarterly magazine, The Climber (also online) and the annual New Zealand Alpine Journal . The NZAC has 17 huts and shelters that are available to club members and other climbers. Most of the sections hold beginner courses for climbers. The club also offers advanced and advanced courses. The NZAC sponsors the annual national summer bouldering series at four locations as well as other local and national competitive climbing events.

Mountaineering fame in New Zealand was boosted by the rise of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the British Mount Everest Expedition in 1953 .

Hillary is one of the most famous and revered New Zealanders and has been a lifelong member of the NZAC. Other NZAC members have made first ascents in many mountain regions , including the Himalayas, Antarctica and the Andes.

New Zealand is a very mountainous country, and mountaineering has long been popular in New Zealand. The opportunities for mountaineering are mainly concentrated in the New Zealand Alps , which run the length of the South Island, but also other areas such as the Kaikouras , Arrowsmiths and the Volcanic Plateau , Mount Taranaki and Mounts Ruapehu , Ngauruhoe and Tongariro .

Rock climbing attracts many New Zealanders, and the varied topography and rock types provide climbing opportunities in some cities such as Auckland , Christchurch and Dunedin , and within an hour's drive of most New Zealand cities. Ice climbing , bouldering , sport climbing, and traditional climbing are all well established.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TheUIAA.org: Member Associations 2018-2019 - UIAA
  2. ^ Hillary, Edmund, High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
  3. ↑ Colin Monteath, Hall and Ball: Kiwi mountaineers , Hedgehog House
  4. ^ Philip Temple, The world at their feet , Whitcombe and Tombs
  5. ^ Graeme Dingle, Dingle: Discovering the sense in adventure , Craig Potton Publishing
  6. ^ Norman Hardie, On my own two feet , Canterbury University Press