List of alpine clubs

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Alpine clubs are typically large social clubs 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 alpine huts and paths, and are active in protecting the alpine environment.

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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 [1] the German Alpine Club is usually reckoned as the largest alpine club in the world.

List of Alpine clubs

ClubAbbreviationCountryFounded
Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Hiking Club of Catalonia CECCatalonia (Spain)1876
Alpine Club of Pakistan ACPPakistan1974
Alpine Club Prishtina KAPKosovo2013 [2]
Clube Alpino Paulista CAPBrazil1959 [3]
Academic Alpine Club of Innsbruck AAKIAustria1893 [4]
Academic Alpine Association of Innsbruck AAVIAustria1900 [5]
Academic Alpine Club of Munich AAVMGermany1892
South Tyrol Alpine Club AVSItaly1946 (1869-1923: part of OeAV, banned after 1923)
Alpine Club ACUnited Kingdom1857/58
Alpine Club of Canada ACCCanada1906
Alpine Club of Haller AGHAustria1905
Alpine Club of Krummholz AGKAustria1879
Alpine Club of PeilsteinerAG?Austria1894
Alpine Club of Preintaler AGPAustria1885
Alpine Club of Reißtaler [6] AGRAustria1881
Alpine Association of Berne [7] AVBSwitzerland1909
American Alpine Club AACUnited States1902
Alpine Club at CU CUACUnited States2001
Andean German Club DAV SantiagoChile1924
Appalachian Mountain Club AMCUnited States1876
Armenian Mountaineering and Hiking Federation AMHFArmenia2011
Associazione Sentieri Alpini Calanca ASACSwitzerland1978
Australian Alpine Club AACAustralia1950 [8]
Barts and the London Alpine Club [9] BLACUnited Kingdom1941
Belgian Alpine Club BAC CABBelgium1883
California Alpine Club CACUnited States1913
Carpathian Association of Hungary (Magyarországi Kárpát Egyesület) [10] MKEKingdom of Hungary1873
Club Alpin Monégasque CAMMonaco1911
Club Alpin Français CAFFrance1874
Club Alpino Italiano CAIItaly1863
Clubul Alpin Român CARRomania1934
Club Andino Bariloche CABArgentina1931
Colorado Mountain Club CMCUnited States1912
Crimean-Caucasian Mountaineering ClubCCMCRussia1890 [11]
Croatian Mountaineering Association (Hrvatski planinarski savez)HPS (HPD)Croatia1874 [12]
Delftsche Studenten Alpen ClubDSCNetherland1922
Den Norske Turistforening DNTNorway1886
Excelsior Alpine Club ExcelsiorHungary1966
German Alpine Club (Deutscher Alpenverein)DAVGermany1869
German Hiking Club of Valparaiso DAVChile1909 [13]
Kiama Alpine Club KACAustralia1957 [14]
Kiandra Pioneer Ski ClubKPSCAustralia1861 [15]
Kosciusko Alpine Club KACAustralia1909 [16]
Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada FEDMESpain1922
Fédération des Clubs Alpins Académiques de Suisse
Association of Academic Alpine Clubs of Switzerland 		FCAASSwitzerland1983
Fédération française de la montagne et de l’escalade FFMEFrance1942
Federazione alpinistica ticinese FATSwitzerland1965
Groupe Alpin Luxembourgeois GALLuxembourg1955
Groupe de Haute Montagne GHMFrance1919
Climbing Interest Group (Interessengemeinschaft Klettern)IG KletternGermany1989
Icelandic Alpine Club [21] ÍSALPIceland1977
Japanese Alpine Club JACJapan1905
Ladies' Alpine Club LACUnited Kingdom1907 to 1975 Merged with AC
Liechtenstein Alpine Club LAVLiechtenstein1946 (1909 DuÖAV branch)
Austrian Friends of Nature (Naturfreunde Österreich)NFÖ, TVNAustria1895
Nederlandse Klim- en Bergsport Vereniging NKBVNetherlands1902/1998
New Zealand Alpine Club NZACNew Zealand1891
Österreichische Bergsteigervereinigung ÖBVAustria1907
Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenklub)ÖAKAustria1878
Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenverein)OeAVAustria1862
Austrian Tourist Club (Österreichischer Touristenklub)ÖTKAustria1869
Austrian Tourist Association (Österreichischer Touristenverein)ÖTVAustria1908
Alpine Association of Slovenia (Planinska zveza Slovenije) PZSSlovenia1893
Ljubljana Matica Alpine Club (Planinsko društvo Ljubljana-Matica)PD LMSlovenia1945
Polski Związek Alpinizmu PZAPoland1974
Rendez-vous Hautes Montagnes RHMEurope1968
Swiss Alpine Club SAC CASSwitzerland1863
Skagit Alpine Club SACUnited States1960
Swiss Ladies' Alpine Club SFACSwitzerland1918 to 1979 Merged with SAC
Società Alpinistica Ticinese SATSwitzerland1937
Società Escursionistica Verzaschese SEVSwitzerland1983
Société des Touristes du Dauphiné STDFrance1875
Southern Alps Ski Club SASCAustralia1935 [22]
Svenska Turistföreningen STFSweden1885
Türkiye Dağcılık Federasyonu TDFTurkey1936 (predecessor 1928) [23]
Unione Ticinese Operai Esccursionisti UTOESwitzerland1919
Israel Climbers Club ICCIsrael1939
Mazamas MAZUnited States1894
Damavand mountaineering and ski clubDMSCIran1953
The Mountaineers United States1906
Washington Alpine Club WACUnited States1916
Centro Excursionista Brasileiro CEBBrazil1919 [24]
Círculo Marumbinista de CuritibaCMCBrazil1930 [25]

References

  1. ↑ "German Alpine Club in numbers" (in German). Deutscher Alpenverein. 2023-12-31. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "Klubi Alpin Prishtina". Klubi Alpin Prishtina. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  3. ↑ Clube Alpino Paulista
  4. ↑ "Akademischer Alpenklub Innsbruck". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-12-26.
  5. ↑ Akademischer Alpiner Verein Innsbruck
  6. ↑ Alpine Gesellschaft Reißtaler Archived 2010-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Alpine Vereinigung Bern
  8. ↑ "History - Australian Alpine Club".
  9. ↑ http://blalpineclub.wordpress.com/ [ user-generated source ]
  10. ↑ https://karpategyesulet.hu/ https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarorsz%C3%A1gi_K%C3%A1rp%C3%A1t-egyes%C3%BClet [ bare URL ]
  11. ↑ Крымско-Кавказский горный клуб
  12. ↑ "Hrvatski planinarski savez" . Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  13. ↑ Footprint, Asset. "DAV". dav-valparaiso.cl/. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  14. ↑ "Kiama Alpine Club - Club History".
  15. ↑ Footprint, Asset. "Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club". kpsc1861.org.au. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  16. ↑ "Home - Kosciusko Alpine Club".
  17. ↑ Akademischer Alpenclub Basel
  18. ↑ Akademischer Alpenclub Bern
  19. ↑ Akademischer Alpine Club Zürich
  20. ↑ Club Alpin Académique de Genève Archived 2012-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ↑ Icelandic Alpine Club Archived 2011-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ↑ "Southern Alps Ski Club".
  23. ↑ Türkiye Dağcılık Federasyonu – Tarihçe. 2014.
  24. ↑ CEB's history.
  25. ↑ A mountain range and a set of cultural practices as scale of research in environmental history.
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