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...
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The Austrian Alpine Club (German: Österreichischer Alpenverein) has about 700,000 members in 194 sections and is the largest mountaineering organisation...
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The Alpine Club was founded in London on 22 December 1857 and is the world's first mountaineering club. The primary focus of the club is to support mountaineers...
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The American Alpine Club (AAC) is a non-profit member organization with more than 26,000 members. The club is housed in the American Mountaineering Center...
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The Swiss Alpine Club (German: Schweizer Alpen-Club, French: Club Alpin Suisse, Italian: Club Alpino Svizzero, Romansh: Club Alpin Svizzer) is the largest...
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Alpine club huts (German: Alpenvereinshütten) or simply club huts (Clubhütten) form the majority of the over 1,300 mountain huts in the Alps and are maintained...
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The German Alpine Club (German: Deutscher Alpenverein, DAV for short) is the world's largest climbing association and the eighth-largest sporting association...
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Alpine climbing (German: Alpinklettern) is a type of mountaineering that uses any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing...
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The California Alpine Club (CAC) is an all-volunteer, outdoors-oriented social group centered in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento areas that organizes...
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Japanese Alpine Club (日本山岳会, Nihon Sangakukai, JAC) is a mountaineering and climbing organisation based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese Alpine Club was founded...
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Look up Alpine or alpine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alpine may refer to any mountainous region. It may also refer to: Alps, a European mountain...
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section (German: Sektion) of an Alpine club (or that of any such Alpine society or association) is an independent club or society that, together with the...
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The Australian Alpine Club was founded in 1950 and is one of the oldest continually existing Alpine clubs in Australia. it was founded in 1950 by Charles...
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The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) is an amateur athletic association with its national office in Canmore, Alberta that has been a focal point for Canadian...
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with the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (Alpenvereinseinteilung, AVE). The Central Alps form the eastern part of the Alpine divide, its...
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Lowe Alpine is a US outdoor equipment manufacturer founded in Utah in 1972 by brothers Mike, Greg and Jeff Lowe. Today it is owned by Rab. In 1967 Greg...
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The Ladies' Alpine Club was founded in London, England in 1907 and was the first mountaineering club for women. It merged with the Alpine Club of Great Britain...
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larger Alpine System physiographic division. Geography of the Alps Limestone Alps Northern Limestone Alps List of mountain groups in the Alpine Club classification...
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sports seem to kill their practitioners more than alpinism." The American Alpine Club said the film was "detailed enough to appeal to a seasoned alpinist,"...
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The Alpine Club Guides (German: Alpenvereinsführer, commonly shortened to AV Führer or AVF) were the standard series of alpine climbing guidebookss that...
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Kosciusko Alpine Club (KAC) is the second oldest ski club in Australia after the Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club (1861). It was founded in 1909, two months after...
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peak in Germany. Ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps according to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (from east to west): Limestone Alps...
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be higher. In 1922, a geologist approached the Alpine Club of Canada with the suggestion that the club send a team to the mountain to reach the summit...
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Mountain hut (redirect from Alpine lodge)
operated by an Alpine Club or some organization dedicated to hiking or mountain recreation. They are known by many names, including alpine hut, mountain...
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Alpine Journal. 22 (1). American Alpine Club: 1–18. Retrieved 6 November 2016. "K2, North Ridge". American Alpine Journal. 25 (57). American Alpine Club:...
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The Alpine Club Museum (German: Alpenverein-Museum) in Innsbruck, Austria is a museum dedicated to the history of alpinism. Located in the Hofburg in...
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Ridge". American Alpine Journal. 20 (50). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 277. ISBN 978-0-930410-73-5. Carter. "American Alpine Club Journal". Bleser...
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American Alpine Club: 19. 1970. Retrieved 28 October 2016. "Asia, Nepal, Dhaulagiri, Second Ascent". American Alpine Journal. American Alpine Club: 438....
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Dyhrenfurth, Norman G. (1956). "Lhotse, 1955". American Alpine Journal. 10 (1). American Alpine Club: 7. Retrieved 10 April 2016. "The Swiss Mount Everest/Lhotse...
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Mountaineering (section Alpine style)
mountains. Numerous local alpine clubs support mountaineers by hosting resources and social activities. A federation of alpine clubs, the International Climbing...
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