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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 German Alpine Club (German: Deutscher Alpenverein, DAV for short) is the world's largest climbing association and the eighth-largest sporting association in Germany.It is a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the competent body for sport and competition climbing, hiking, mountaineering, hill walking, ice climbing, mountain expeditions, as well as ski mountaineering.
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 South Tyrol Alpine Club (German: Alpenverein Südtirol, Italian: Club Alpino Altoatesino), abbreviated AVS, is an association of German and Ladin-speaking mountain climbers in South Tyrol, northern Italy. Founded in 1946, it is subdivided into 36 sections and 58 local divisions. The AVS is based in Bolzano and has more than 76,000 members. [1]
The German Alpine Club consists of 356 legally independent sections with a total of ca. 1,520,000 members. [1] These are distributed all over Germany, the number and geographical density of the sections increasing markedly from north to south: for example, whilst there is only one section in post code region 17 (Neubrandenburg), there are over 20 sections in Munich.
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 mountain hut of the CAF at Col de la Vanoise. The Fédération Française des clubs alpins et de montagne (FFCAM) is a federation of clubs promoting mountain sports.It offers multiple training programs and courses to help people understand mountains and manages 142 mountain huts, mostly in the Alps and the Pyrenees.
The Swiss Alpine Club was the first Alpine club founded in continental Europe after the foundation of the Alpine Club (1857) in London. One of the founders and the first president of the Club was Dr. Melchior Ulrich; other members were Gottlieb Samuel Studer and Dr. Simler.