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The Austrian Alpine Club has 194 sections with a total of 710,000 members, [2] including a UK section (Sektion Britannia) The South Tyrol Alpine Club has 36 sections with a total of 76,000 members. [3] The Italian Alpine Club has 512 sections and 316 sub-sections with a total of 306,000 members. [4]
The Austrian Alpine Club (German: Österreichischer Alpenverein) has about 700,000 members in 194 sections [1] and is the largest mountaineering organisation in Austria. It is responsible for the upkeep of over 234 alpine huts in Austria and neighbouring countries. It also maintains over 26,000 kilometres of footpaths, and produces detailed ...
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).
Austrian glaciers receded last year at a rapid pace and the Alpine country is likely to be largely ice-free in 40 to 45 years as the process continues, experts said Friday. The Austrian Alpine ...
The Club maintains an online "Himalayan Index" of articles about Himalayan mountaineering activities recorded in journals, magazines and books in its library. [4]Its members' activities are recounted annually in the club's publication the Alpine Journal, the world's oldest mountaineering journal, and interim newsletters are produced during the year.
An Alpine Club is a country's senior mountaineering club. This is the subcategory page for Alpine Clubs This is the subcategory page for Alpine Clubs Subcategories
In addition to a large number of Alpine club huts of the Alpine clubs, there are also many in private ownership. The list includes some, but by far not all huts in the seven Alpine countries of Germany , France , Italy , Liechtenstein , Austria , Switzerland and Slovenia .
This list of the mountain groups in the Eastern Alps shows all 75 mountain groups and chains in the Eastern Alps as per the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE) of 1984. The Alpine Clubs divide the Eastern Alps into four regions which, in turn, are subdivided into mountain groups.