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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).
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 ...
From the snowparks of Saalbach to St Anton’s slopeside après scene, here are the best of Austria’s pistes
In addition to a large number of Alpine club huts of the Alpine clubs, there are also many in private ownership. The list includes some, but by far not all huts in the seven Alpine countries of Germany , France , Italy , Liechtenstein , Austria , Switzerland and Slovenia .
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
According to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps, the range is bounded by the Salzach valley to the north (separating it from the Kitzbühel Alps), the Mur valley and the Murtörl Pass to the east (separating it from the Lower Tauern), the Drava valley to the south (separating it from the Southern Limestone Alps), and the Birnlücke Pass to the west (separating it from the ...