List of alpine 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[]

^[1]^{[circular reference]}Club	Abbreviation	Country	Founded
Alpine Club of Pakistan	ACP	Pakistan	1974
	KAP	Kosovo	2013^[2]
	CAP	Brazil	1959^[3]
	AAKI	Austria	1893^[4]
	AAVI	Austria	1900^[5]
	AAVM	Germany	1892
South Tyrol Alpine Club	AVS	Italy	1946 (1869-1923: part of OeAV, banned after 1923)
Alpine Club	AC	Great Britain	1857/58
Alpine Club of Canada	ACC	Canada	1906
	AGH	Austria	1905
	AGK	Austria	1879
Alpine Club of Peilsteiner	AG?	Austria	1894
	AGP	Austria	1885
Alpine Club of Reißtaler^[6]	AGR	Austria	1881
^[7]	AVB	Switzerland	1909
American Alpine Club	AAC	USA	1902
	CUAC	USA	2001
	DAV	Chile	1924
Appalachian Mountain Club	AMC	USA	1876
	ASAC	Switzerland	1978
Australian Alpine Club	AAC	Australia	1950^[8]
^[9]	BLAC	United Kingdom	1941
	BAC CAB	Belgium	1883
California Alpine Club	CAC	USA	1913
	CAM	Monaco	1911
Club Alpin Français	CAF	France	1874
Club Alpino Italiano	CAI	Italy	1863
	CAR	Romania	1934
Colorado Mountain Club	CMC	USA	1912
Crimean-Caucasian Mountaineering Club	CCMC	Russia	1890^[10]
Delftsche Studenten Alpen Club	DSC	Netherland	1922
Den Norske Turistforening	DNT	Norway	1886
	Excelsior	Hungary	1966
German Alpine Club (Deutscher Alpenverein)	DAV	Germany	1869
	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 AACBS 1918^[14] AACB 1905^[15] AACZ 1896^[16] CAAG 1927^[17]	FCAAS	Switzerland	1983
Fédération française de la montagne et de l’escalade	FFME	France	1942
	FAT	Switzerland	1965
	GAL	Luxembourg	1955
	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	Great Britain	1907 to 1975 Merged with AC
	LAV	Liechtenstein	1946 (1909 DuÖAV branch)
Austrian Friends of Nature (Naturfreunde Österreich)	NFÖ, TVN	Austria	1895
	NKBV	Netherlands	1902/1998
New Zealand Alpine Club	NZAC	New Zealand	1891
	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
	PZA	Poland	1974
Swiss Alpine Club	SAC CAS	Switzerland	1863
	SAC	USA	1960
	SFAC	Switzerland	1918 to 1979 Merged mit SAC
	SAT	Switzerland	1937
	SEV	Switzerland	1983
	STD	France	1875
	SASC	Australia	1935^[19]
Svenska Turistföreningen	STF	Sweden	1885
	TDF	Turkey	1936 (predecessor 1928)^[20]
	UTOE	Switzerland	1919
	ICC	Israel	1939
Mazamas	MAZ	USA	1894
Damavand mountaineering and ski club	DMSC	Iran	1953
The Mountaineers		USA	1906
Washington Alpine Club	WAC	USA	1916
Centro Excursionista Brasileiro	CEB	Brazil	1919^[21]
Círculo Marumbinista de Curitiba	CMC	Brazil	1930^[22]

References[]

^ "Alpine Club of Pakistan". Wikipedia. 13 October 2019.
^ "Klubi Alpin Prishtina". Klubi Alpin Prishtina. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
^ Clube Alpino Paulista
^ "Akademischer Alpenklub Innsbruck". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-12-26.
^ Akademischer Alpiner Verein Innsbruck
^ Alpine Gesellschaft Reißtaler Archived 2010-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
^ Alpine Vereinigung Bern
^ http://www.australianalpineclub.com/history.html
^ http://blalpineclub.wordpress.com/
^ Крымско-Кавказский горный клуб
^ http://www.kiamaalpineclub.org.au/kac-club-history.htm
^ Footprint, Asset. "Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club". kpsc1861.org.au. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
^ http://www.kac.org.au/
^ Akademischer Alpenclub Basel
^ Akademischer Alpenclub Bern
^ Akademischer Alpine Club Zürich
^ Club Alpin Académique de Genève Archived 2012-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
^ Icelandic Alpine Club Archived 2011-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ http://www.sasc-aus.com/
^ Türkiye Dağcılık Federasyonu – Tarihçe. 2014.
^ CEB's history.
^ A mountain range and a set of cultural practices as scale of research in environmental history.

External links[]

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[1] "Alpine Club of Pakistan". Wikipedia. 13 October 2019.

[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] ttp://www.australianalpineclub.com/history.html

[9] ttp://blalpineclub.wordpress.com/

[10] Крымско-Кавказский горный клуб

[11] ttp://www.kiamaalpineclub.org.au/kac-club-history.htm

[12] Footprint, Asset. "Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club". kpsc1861.org.au. Retrieved 2016-09-11.

[13] ttp://www.kac.org.au/

[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] ttp://www.sasc-aus.com/

[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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