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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 ...
Both organisations merged in 1873 to form the German and Austrian Alpine Club. The main organisation consisted of numerous legally independent sections responsible for the upkeep of Alpine club huts and footpaths. In 1918 the DuÖAV purchased about 40 km 2 (15 sq mi) of land at the Pasterze Glacier of the Grossglockner massif, which became the ...
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 larger alpine clubs in Europe have a multilateral agreement to treat members of other clubs as their own members at their club's huts (reciprocal rights). These clubs include: the German and Austrian Alpine Clubs, the Club Alpin Français, the Club Alpino Italiano, the Swiss Alpine Club and the Federación Española de Montanismo as well as several smaller clubs.
The Simony Hut (German: Simonyhütte) is an Alpine club hut belonging to the Austrian Alpine Club (OeAV) located at a height of 2,205 metres, just below the Hallstätter Glacier at the foot of the Hoher Dachstein in Austria.
Collingwood Football Club: Melbourne, Australia: 110,102 2024 [18] 21 West Coast Eagles: Perth, Australia: 103,275 2023 [19] 22 Austrian Alpine Club Edelweiss section: Vienna, Austria: 102,435 December 2022 [20] 23 Richmond Football Club: Melbourne, Australia: 101,349 2023 [19] 24 Hamburger SV: Hamburg, Germany: 100,000 September 2023 [21] VfB ...
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.