Outdoor social clubs
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).
Alpine clubs are typically large social clubs that revolve around climbing, hiking, and other outdoor activities. Many alpine clubs also take on aspects typically reserved for local sport associations, providing education and training courses, services for outdoorsmen, and de facto regulation of local mountaineering resources and behavior of mountaineers. Most clubs organize social events, schedule outings, stage climbing competitions, operate alpine huts and paths, and are active in protecting the alpine environment.
With around 1,000,000 members the German Alpine Club is usually reckoned as the largest alpine club in the world.
List of Alpine clubs
References
- ^ "Klubi Alpin Prishtina". Klubi Alpin Prishtina. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ Clube Alpino Paulista
- ^ "Akademischer Alpenklub Innsbruck". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-12-26.
- ^ Akademischer Alpiner Verein Innsbruck
- ^ Alpine Gesellschaft Reißtaler Archived 2010-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Alpine Vereinigung Bern
- ^ "History - Australian Alpine Club".
- ^ http://blalpineclub.wordpress.com/ [user-generated source]
- ^ https://karpategyesulet.hu/
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alpine_clubs/Magyarorsz%C3%A1gi_K%C3%A1rp%C3%A1t-egyes%C3%BClet
- ^ Крымско-Кавказский горный клуб
- ^ "Hrvatski planinarski savez". Retrieved 22 May 2024.
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- ^ "Kiama Alpine Club - Club History".
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- ^ "Home - Kosciusko Alpine Club".
- ^ Akademischer Alpenclub Basel
- ^ Akademischer Alpenclub Bern
- ^ Akademischer Alpine Club Zürich
- ^ Club Alpin Académique de Genève Archived 2012-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Icelandic Alpine Club Archived 2011-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Southern Alps Ski Club".
- ^ Türkiye Dağcılık Federasyonu – Tarihçe. 2014.
- ^ CEB's history.
- ^ A mountain range and a set of cultural practices as scale of research in environmental history.
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