List of alpine clubs
The first Alpine Club, founded in London in 1857, 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. (The Nuttall Encyclopaedia 1907)
Today, Alpine clubs stage climbing competitions, operate alpine huts and paths, and are active in protecting the Alpine environment. The oldest is the UK Alpine Club, originally founded as a gentlemen's club (see List of London's gentlemen's clubs). With around 1,000,000 members the German Alpine Club is the largest Alpine club in the world.
List of Alpine clubs
| Club | Abbreviation | Country | Founded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Great Britain | 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 | USA | 1902 |
| Alpine Club at CU | CUAP | USA | 2001 |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | AMC | USA | 1876 |
| 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 |
| Club Alpin Monégasque | CAM | Monaco | 1911 |
| Club Alpin Français | CAF | France | 1874 |
| Club Alpino Italiano | CAI | Italy | 1863 |
| Clubul Alpin Roman | CAR | Romania | 1936 |
| Den Norske Turistforening | DNT | Norway | 1886 |
| Excelsior Alpine Club | Excelsior | Hungary | 1966 |
| German Alpine Club | DAV | Germany | 1869 |
| Kiama Alpine Club | KAC | Australia | 1957[9] |
| Kosciusko Alpine Club | KAC | Australia | 1909[10] |
| 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 |
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[15] | ÍSALP | Iceland | 1977 |
| Japanese Alpine Club | JAC | Japan | 1905 |
| Ladies' Alpine Club | LAC | Great Britain | 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 |
| 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 |
| Planinska zveza Slovenije | PZS | Slovenia | 1893 |
| Ljubljana–Matica Mountaineering Club | Matica | Slovenia | 1893 |
| Swiss Alpine Club | SAC CAS | Switzerland | 1863 |
| Skagit Alpine Club | SAC | USA | 1960 |
| Swiss Ladies' Alpine Club | SFAC | Switzerland | 1918 to 1979 Merged mit SAC |
| Slovensko Planinsko Društvo Celovec Slovenian Alpine Club Klagenfurt | SPD Celovec | Austria | 1953, 1900 as a branch of the PZS |
| 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[16] |
| Svenska Turistföreningen | STF | Sweden | 1885 |
| Unione Ticinese Operai Esccursionisti | UTOE | Switzerland | 1919 |
| Israel Climbers Club | ICC | Israel | 1939 |
References
- ↑ . Klubi Alpin Prishtina http://klubialpinprishtina.com. Retrieved 4 February 2014. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Clube Alpino Paulista
- ↑ Akademischer Alpenklub Innsbruck
- ↑ Akademischer Alpiner Verein Innsbruck
- ↑ Alpine Gesellschaft Reißtaler
- ↑ Alpine Vereinigung Bern
- ↑ http://www.australianalpineclub.com/history.html
- ↑ http://blalpineclub.wordpress.com/
- ↑ http://www.kiamaalpineclub.org.au/kac-club-history.htm
- ↑ http://www.kac.org.au/
- ↑ Akademischer Alpenclub Basel
- ↑ Akademischer Alpenclub Bern
- ↑ Akademischer Alpine Club Zürich
- ↑ Club Alpin Académique de Genève
- ↑ Icelandic Alpine Club
- ↑ http://www.sasc-aus.com/
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