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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 ...
Bond of the Austrian Branch of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, issued 1 January 1907. The German and Austrian Alpine Club (German: Deutscher und Österreichischer Alpenverein, DuÖAV) was a merger of the German, Austrian and German Bohemian Alpine Club that existed from 1873 to 1938.
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).
The Austrian Tourist Club (German: Österreichische Touristenklub) or ÖTK is the second oldest and third largest Alpine club in Austria. The foundation of the club goes back to an initiative by Gustav Jäger, publisher of Der Tourist , [ 1 ] the first tourist magazine in Austria.
The Franz Senn Hut (German: Franz-Senn-Hütte) is a large and very popular Category I alpine hut in the Stubai Alps owned by the Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenverein). [1] It is a large, well-appointed hut, named after Franz Senn. Access is from Oberiss in the Oberbergtal off the Stubaital above Neustift. [2]
The Alpine Club Museum was opened in 1911 in a former villa on the River Isar in Munich as the "Alpine Museum", following a key resolution by the German and Austrian Alpine Club in 1907. In 1944 it was destroyed by shelling, but fortunately the majority of the collection had already been moved to Tyrol in Austria. It was not until 1973, however ...
At the same time the Stripsenkopf is the local mountain for the Stripsenjochhaus, an Alpine club hut belonging to the Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenverein). The Stripsenjoch is most easily reached on foot by a ca. 1 1 ⁄ 2 hour walk from the Griesner Alm at 989 m.
In 1947, Prusik became the first Vice President of the Österreichischer Alpenklub (ÖAK.). Prusik Peak in the Cascade Range of Washington state is named in honour of Karl Prusik. [2] Also, a route in the Slovenian Alps was named after Karl Prusik and his climbing partner, Roman Szalay. [3] He died on 8 May 1961 in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria, at ...