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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).
Climbing-based: Mountaineering (including alpine climbing and expedition climbing), ice climbing (including mixed climbing and dry-tooling), rock climbing (including aid climbing, big wall climbing, and multi-pitch climbing), and Via Ferrata climbing; Jumping-based: BASE jumping, hang gliding, and wingsuit flying
The alpine style contrasts with "expedition style". With this style, climbers will carry large amounts of equipment and provisions up and down the mountain, slowly making upward progress. Climbing in an expedition style is preferred if the summit is very high or distant from civilization.
Indoor rock climbing’s popularity has grown over the past decade, with 618 U.S. climbing gyms open in 2022, more than twice as many as in 2012, according to Climbing Business Journal.
Climbing, or alpine, clubs form to promote and preserve the climbing way of life, including rock climbing, ice climbing, alpinism & ski mountaineering. Clubs frequently act as advocates to protect climbing areas, advocate for climbers around the world, preserve climbing’s history and chronicle climbing achievement.
Ueli Steck making a rapid 'alpine style' one-day ascent of North Couloir Direct (VI, Al 6+, M8) a major alpine climbing route on Les Drus [6]. The derived term "alpine style" alludes to the fashion of alpine climbing to be in small fast-moving teams – or even solo – who carry all of their own equipment (e.g. no porters), and do all of the climbing (e.g. no sherpas or reserve teams laying ...