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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 ...
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 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).
Swiss Alpine Club: Mont Blanc massif: Ackerl Hut: Austrian Alpine Club: Kaiser Mountains: Albert Premier Hut: Club alpin français: Mont Blanc massif: Aljažev dom v Vratih: Planinsko društvo Dovje - Mojstrana: Julian Alps: Anton Karg Haus: Austrian Alpine Club: Kaiser Mountains: Argentière Hut: Club alpin français: Mont Blanc massif
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.
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 ...
It was the first mountaineering club on the continent, modelled on the London Alpine Club. About seven years later, the Austrian mountaineer Franz Senn founded the Bildungsbürgerlicher Bergsteigerverein in Munich. Both organisations merged in 1873 to form the German and Austrian Alpine Club. The main organisation consisted of numerous legally ...
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