List of alpine clubs

 ( Climbing And Mountaineering Organizations ) 

Alpine clubs are typically large that revolve around climbing, hiking, and other outdoor activities. Many alpine clubs also take on aspects typically reserved for local sport associations, providing education and training courses, services for outdoorsmen, and de facto regulation of local mountaineering resources and behavior of mountaineers. Most clubs organize social events, schedule outings, and stage climbing competitions, operate Mountain hut and paths, and are active in protecting the alpine environment.

The first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club. It was once described as:

"a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains" ( Nuttall Encyclopaedia, 1907).

With around 1,500,000 members the German Alpine Club is usually reckoned as the largest alpine club in the world.

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List of Alpine clubs

Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Hiking Club of Catalonia	CEC	Catalonia (Spain)	1876
Alpine Club of Pakistan	ACP	Pakistan	1974
2013
1959 Clube Alpino Paulista
1893
1900 Akademischer Alpiner Verein Innsbruck
1892
1946 (1869-1923: part of OeAV, banned after 1923)
1857/58
1906
1905
1879
1894
1885
1881
1909
1902
2001
1924
1876
2011
1978
1950
1941
1883
1913
Carpathian Association of Hungary ( Magyarországi Kárpát Egyesület)https://karpategyesulet.hu/ https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarorsz%C3%A1gi_K%C3%A1rp%C3%A1t-egyes%C3%BClet	MKE	Kingdom of Hungary	1873
1911
1874
1863
1934
1931
1912
1890 Крымско-Кавказский горный клуб
1874
1922
1886
Excelsior Alpine Club	Excelsior	Hungary	1966
1869
1909
1957
Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club	KPSC	Australia	1861
1909
1922
Fédération des Clubs Alpins Académiques de Suisse Association of Academic Alpine Clubs of Switzerland Academic Alpine Club of Basle AACBS 1918 Akademischer Alpenclub Basel Academic Alpine Club of Berne AACB 1905 Akademischer Alpenclub Bern Academic Alpine Club of Zürich AACZ 1896 Akademischer Alpine Club Zürich Club Alpin Académique Genève CAAG 1927 Club Alpin Académique de Genève	1983
1942
1965
1955
1919
1989
1977
1905
1907 to 1975 Merged with AC
1946 (1909 DuÖAV branch)
1895
1902/1998
1891
1907
1878
1862
1869
1908
1893
1945
1974
Rendez-vous Hautes Montagnes	RHM	Europe	1968
1863
1960
1918 to 1979 Merged with SAC
1937
1983
1875
1935
1885
1936 (predecessor 1928) Türkiye Dağcılık Federasyonu – Tarihçe. 2014.
1919
1939
1894
Damavand mountaineering and ski club	DMSC	Iran	1953
The Mountaineers		United States	1906
Washington Alpine Club	WAC	United States	1916
1919 CEB's history.
1930 A mountain range and a set of cultural practices as scale of research in environmental history.

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External links

• Article for Men's Vogue