List of alpine clubs

Outdoor social clubs

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).

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, stage climbing competitions, operate alpine huts and paths, and are active in protecting the alpine environment.

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

## List of Alpine clubs[edit]

Club | Abbreviation | Country | Founded

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Alpine Club of Pakistan | ACP  | Pakistan  | 1974
Alpine Club Prishtina | KAP | Kosovo | 2013[1]
Clube Alpino Paulista | CAP | Brazil | 1959[2]
Academic Alpine Club of Innsbruck | AAKI | Austria | 1893[3]
Academic Alpine Association of Innsbruck | AAVI | Austria | 1900[4]
Academic Alpine Club of Munich | AAVM | Germany | 1892
South Tyrol Alpine Club | AVS | Italy | 1946 (1869-1923: part of OeAV, banned after 1923)
Alpine Club | AC | United Kingdom | 1857/58
Alpine Club of Canada | ACC | Canada | 1906
Alpine Club of Haller | AGH | Austria | 1905
Alpine Club of Krummholz | AGK | Austria | 1879
Alpine Club of Peilsteiner | AG? | Austria | 1894
Alpine Club of Preintaler | AGP | Austria | 1885
Alpine Club of Reißtaler[5] | AGR | Austria | 1881
Alpine Association of Berne[6] | AVB | Switzerland | 1909
American Alpine Club | AAC | United States | 1902
Alpine Club at CU | CUAC | United States | 2001
Andean German Club | DAV Santiago | Chile | 1924
Appalachian Mountain Club | AMC | United States | 1876
Armenian Mountaineering and Hiking Federation | AMHF | Armenia | 2011
Associazione Sentieri Alpini Calanca | ASAC | Switzerland | 1978
Australian Alpine Club | AAC | Australia | 1950[7]
Barts and the London Alpine Club[8] | BLAC | United Kingdom | 1941
Belgian Alpine Club | BAC CAB | Belgium | 1883
California Alpine Club | CAC | United States | 1913
Club Alpin Monégasque | CAM | Monaco | 1911
Club Alpin Français | CAF | France | 1874
Club Alpino Italiano | CAI | Italy | 1863
Clubul Alpin Român | CAR | Romania | 1934
Colorado Mountain Club | CMC | United States | 1912
Crimean-Caucasian Mountaineering Club | CCMC | Russia | 1890[9]
Delftsche Studenten Alpen Club | DSC | Netherland | 1922
Den Norske Turistforening | DNT | Norway | 1886
Excelsior Alpine Club | Excelsior  | Hungary  | 1966
German Alpine Club (Deutscher Alpenverein) | DAV | Germany | 1869
German Hiking Club of Valparaiso | DAV | Chile | 1909[10]
Kiama Alpine Club | KAC | Australia | 1957[11]
Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club  | KPSC  | Australia  | 1861[12]
Kosciusko Alpine Club | KAC | Australia | 1909[13]
Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada | FEDME | Spain | 1922
Fédération des Clubs Alpins Académiques de Suisse
Association of Academic Alpine Clubs of Switzerland

* Academic Alpine Club of Basle AACBS 1918[14]
* Academic Alpine Club of Berne AACB 1905[15]
* Academic Alpine Club of Zürich AACZ 1896[16]
* Club Alpin Académique Genève CAAG 1927[17]

| FCAAS | Switzerland | 1983
Fédération française de la montagne et de l’escalade | FFME | France | 1942
Federazione alpinistica ticinese | FAT | Switzerland | 1965
Groupe Alpin Luxembourgeois | GAL | Luxembourg | 1955
Groupe de Haute Montagne | GHM | France | 1919
Climbing Interest Group (Interessengemeinschaft Klettern) | IG Klettern | Germany | 1989
Icelandic Alpine Club[18] | ÍSALP | Iceland | 1977
Japanese Alpine Club | JAC | Japan | 1905
Ladies' Alpine Club | LAC | United Kingdom | 1907 to 1975 Merged with AC
Liechtenstein Alpine Club | LAV | Liechtenstein | 1946 (1909 DuÖAV branch)
Austrian Friends of Nature (Naturfreunde Österreich) | NFÖ, TVN | Austria | 1895
Nederlandse Klim- en Bergsport Vereniging | NKBV | Netherlands | 1902/1998
New Zealand Alpine Club | NZAC | New Zealand | 1891
Österreichische Bergsteigervereinigung | ÖBV | Austria | 1907
Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenklub) | ÖAK | Austria | 1878
Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenverein) | OeAV | Austria | 1862
Austrian Tourist Club (Österreichischer Touristenklub) | ÖTK | Austria | 1869
Austrian Tourist Association (Österreichischer Touristenverein) | ÖTV | Austria | 1908
Alpine Association of Slovenia (Planinska zveza Slovenije)  | PZS | Slovenia | 1893
Ljubljana Matica Alpine Club (Planinsko društvo Ljubljana-Matica) | PD LM | Slovenia | 1945
Polski Związek Alpinizmu | PZA | Poland | 1974
Swiss Alpine Club | SAC CAS | Switzerland | 1863
Skagit Alpine Club | SAC | United States | 1960
Swiss Ladies' Alpine Club | SFAC | Switzerland | 1918 to 1979 Merged mit SAC
Società Alpinistica Ticinese | SAT | Switzerland | 1937
Società Escursionistica Verzaschese | SEV | Switzerland | 1983
Société des Touristes du Dauphiné | STD | France | 1875
Southern Alps Ski Club | SASC | Australia | 1935[19]
Svenska Turistföreningen | STF | Sweden | 1885
Türkiye Dağcılık Federasyonu | TDF | Turkey | 1936 (predecessor 1928)[20]
Unione Ticinese Operai Esccursionisti | UTOE | Switzerland | 1919
Israel Climbers Club | ICC | Israel | 1939
Mazamas | MAZ | United States | 1894
Damavand mountaineering and ski club  | DMSC  | Iran  | 1953
The Mountaineers |  | United States  | 1906
Washington Alpine Club | WAC  | United States  | 1916
Centro Excursionista Brasileiro | CEB | Brazil | 1919[21]
Círculo Marumbinista de Curitiba | CMC | Brazil | 1930[22]

## References[edit]

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

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