List of alpine 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, and stage climbing competitions, operate alpine huts and paths, and are active in protecting the alpine environment.

With around 1,500,000 members^[1] the German Alpine Club is usually reckoned as the largest alpine club in the world.

List of Alpine clubs

Club	Abbreviation	Country	Founded
Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Hiking Club of Catalonia	CEC	Catalonia (Spain)	1876
Alpine Club of Pakistan	ACP	Pakistan	1974
Alpine Club Prishtina	KAP	Kosovo	2013[2]
Clube Alpino Paulista	CAP	Brazil	1959[3]
Academic Alpine Club of Innsbruck	AAKI	Austria	1893[4]
Academic Alpine Association of Innsbruck	AAVI	Austria	1900[5]
Academic Alpine Club of Munich	AAVM	Germany	1892
South Tyrol Alpine Club	AVS	Italy	1946 (1869-1923: part of OeAV, banned after 1923)
Alpine Club	AC	United Kingdom	1857/58
Alpine Club of Canada	ACC	Canada	1906
Alpine Club of Haller	AGH	Austria	1905
Alpine Club of Krummholz	AGK	Austria	1879
Alpine Club of Peilsteiner	AG?	Austria	1894
Alpine Club of Preintaler	AGP	Austria	1885
Alpine Club of Reißtaler[6]	AGR	Austria	1881
Alpine Association of Berne[7]	AVB	Switzerland	1909
American Alpine Club	AAC	United States	1902
Alpine Club at CU	CUAC	United States	2001
Andean German Club	DAV Santiago	Chile	1924
Appalachian Mountain Club	AMC	United States	1876
Armenian Mountaineering and Hiking Federation	AMHF	Armenia	2011
Associazione Sentieri Alpini Calanca	ASAC	Switzerland	1978
Australian Alpine Club	AAC	Australia	1950[8]
Barts and the London Alpine Club[9]	BLAC	United Kingdom	1941
Belgian Alpine Club	BAC CAB	Belgium	1883
California Alpine Club	CAC	United States	1913
Carpathian Association of Hungary (Magyarországi Kárpát Egyesület)[10]	MKE	Kingdom of Hungary	1873
Club Alpin Monégasque	CAM	Monaco	1911
Club Alpin Français	CAF	France	1874
Club Alpino Italiano	CAI	Italy	1863
Clubul Alpin Român	CAR	Romania	1934
Colorado Mountain Club	CMC	United States	1912
Crimean-Caucasian Mountaineering Club	CCMC	Russia	1890[11]
Croatian Mountaineering Association (Hrvatski planinarski savez)	HPS (HPD)	Croatia	1874[12]
Delftsche Studenten Alpen Club	DSC	Netherland	1922
Den Norske Turistforening	DNT	Norway	1886
Excelsior Alpine Club	Excelsior	Hungary	1966
German Alpine Club (Deutscher Alpenverein)	DAV	Germany	1869
German Hiking Club of Valparaiso	DAV	Chile	1909[13]
Kiama Alpine Club	KAC	Australia	1957[14]
Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club	KPSC	Australia	1861[15]
Kosciusko Alpine Club	KAC	Australia	1909[16]
Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada	FEDME	Spain	1922
Fédération des Clubs Alpins Académiques de Suisse Association of Academic Alpine Clubs of Switzerland Academic Alpine Club of Basle AACBS 1918[17] Academic Alpine Club of Berne AACB 1905[18] Academic Alpine Club of Zürich AACZ 1896[19] Club Alpin Académique Genève CAAG 1927[20]	FCAAS	Switzerland	1983
Fédération française de la montagne et de l’escalade	FFME	France	1942
Federazione alpinistica ticinese	FAT	Switzerland	1965
Groupe Alpin Luxembourgeois	GAL	Luxembourg	1955
Groupe de Haute Montagne	GHM	France	1919
Climbing Interest Group (Interessengemeinschaft Klettern)	IG Klettern	Germany	1989
Icelandic Alpine Club[21]	ÍSALP	Iceland	1977
Japanese Alpine Club	JAC	Japan	1905
Ladies' Alpine Club	LAC	United Kingdom	1907 to 1975 Merged with AC
Liechtenstein Alpine Club	LAV	Liechtenstein	1946 (1909 DuÖAV branch)
Austrian Friends of Nature (Naturfreunde Österreich)	NFÖ, TVN	Austria	1895
Nederlandse Klim- en Bergsport Vereniging	NKBV	Netherlands	1902/1998
New Zealand Alpine Club	NZAC	New Zealand	1891
Österreichische Bergsteigervereinigung	ÖBV	Austria	1907
Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenklub)	ÖAK	Austria	1878
Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenverein)	OeAV	Austria	1862
Austrian Tourist Club (Österreichischer Touristenklub)	ÖTK	Austria	1869
Austrian Tourist Association (Österreichischer Touristenverein)	ÖTV	Austria	1908
Alpine Association of Slovenia (Planinska zveza Slovenije)	PZS	Slovenia	1893
Ljubljana Matica Alpine Club (Planinsko društvo Ljubljana-Matica)	PD LM	Slovenia	1945
Polski Związek Alpinizmu	PZA	Poland	1974
Swiss Alpine Club	SAC CAS	Switzerland	1863
Skagit Alpine Club	SAC	United States	1960
Swiss Ladies' Alpine Club	SFAC	Switzerland	1918 to 1979 Merged with SAC
Società Alpinistica Ticinese	SAT	Switzerland	1937
Società Escursionistica Verzaschese	SEV	Switzerland	1983
Société des Touristes du Dauphiné	STD	France	1875
Southern Alps Ski Club	SASC	Australia	1935[22]
Svenska Turistföreningen	STF	Sweden	1885
Türkiye Dağcılık Federasyonu	TDF	Turkey	1936 (predecessor 1928)[23]
Unione Ticinese Operai Esccursionisti	UTOE	Switzerland	1919
Israel Climbers Club	ICC	Israel	1939
Mazamas	MAZ	United States	1894
Damavand mountaineering and ski club	DMSC	Iran	1953
The Mountaineers		United States	1906
Washington Alpine Club	WAC	United States	1916
Centro Excursionista Brasileiro	CEB	Brazil	1919[24]
Círculo Marumbinista de Curitiba	CMC	Brazil	1930[25]

References

1. "German Alpine Club in numbers" (in German). Deutscher Alpenverein. 2023-12-31. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
2. "Klubi Alpin Prishtina". Klubi Alpin Prishtina. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
3. Clube Alpino Paulista
4. "Akademischer Alpenklub Innsbruck". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-12-26.
5. Akademischer Alpiner Verein Innsbruck
6. Alpine Gesellschaft Reißtaler Archived 2010-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
7. Alpine Vereinigung Bern
8. "History - Australian Alpine Club".
9. http://blalpineclub.wordpress.com/ ^{[user-generated source]}
10. https://karpategyesulet.hu/ https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarorsz%C3%A1gi_K%C3%A1rp%C3%A1t-egyes%C3%BClet ^{[bare URL]}
11. Крымско-Кавказский горный клуб
12. "Hrvatski planinarski savez". Retrieved 22 May 2024.
13. Footprint, Asset. "DAV". dav-valparaiso.cl/. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
14. "Kiama Alpine Club - Club History".
15. Footprint, Asset. "Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club". kpsc1861.org.au. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
16. "Home - Kosciusko Alpine Club".
17. Akademischer Alpenclub Basel
18. Akademischer Alpenclub Bern
19. Akademischer Alpine Club Zürich
20. Club Alpin Académique de Genève Archived 2012-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
21. Icelandic Alpine Club Archived 2011-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
22. "Southern Alps Ski Club".
23. Türkiye Dağcılık Federasyonu – Tarihçe. 2014.
24. CEB's history.
25. A mountain range and a set of cultural practices as scale of research in environmental history.

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