The Alpine Club, the world’s first mountaineering club, was founded in 1857. For over 150 years, members have been at the leading edge of worldwide mountaineering development and exploration.
With membership, experienced and aspiring alpinists benefit from a varied meets programme, regional lectures with notable guest speakers, reduced rates at many alpine huts, opportunity to apply for grants to support expeditions, significant discounts at many UK retailers, extensive networking contacts, access to the AC Library and maps - and more!
Becoming a MemberMeets
Here is a list of Alpine Club meets. Select additional pages using the numbers at the bottom. A list of past meets is can be seen by clicking here.
The Meets programme provides great opportunities for fellow members to get to know each other in the climbing areas of the UK and the mountains of the world. UK meets in particular offer the chance for members to drop in, even if it's just for an evening drink.
New members have often attended meets as guests of members before they joined and their presence on meets is particularly welcome both to widen their circle of acquaintance and to assist with maintaining that tradition of openness to prospective members. Non-members may attend meets as guests of members at the discretion of the meet coordinator.
Before attending please read the Meet Guidelines.
Interested in organising a meet? It's easy! Click here to find out more.
Events Calendar
To Sunday 10 November 2024
The Alpine Club is entering a new partnership with the National Outdoor Centre at Plas y Brenin to offer a yearly skills course for 15-20 members.
Held at the centre itself and in the surrounding Eryri National Park, the meet is open to all members, offering a chance for Full and Aspirant members to refresh their skills and check in with the latest ‘best practice’ in the mountains.
Staying up to date is an important consideration for all active climbers, and, as with other training meets, the Alpine Club will offer a 50% subsidy towards the training portion of the meet, reducing the cost of instruction for all attendees. This means that the cost of the meet will be £155 rather than £310 for non-residential attendees and £275 rather than £430 for those who book their food and accommodation through PyB.
The instructor ratio will be 1 instructor to every 4 climbers and an outline of the course content is shown below:
As with previous AC training weekends, the meet will also be a great opportunity to meet other members and to forge new climbing partnerships.
If you have any questions about the weekend, please don't hesitate to get in touch with meet coordinator Kasia Piatek on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.