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 MemberLectures
Here is a list of lectures at the Alpine Club. Select additional pages using the numbers at the bottom.
The lectures provide a good opportunity for AC members to meet one another and exchange news, views and information. New members and prospective members are particularly welcome. Prospective members are asked to contact the AC office before attending. Lectures generally start at 7:30pm.
For the lectures in London, non-members are asked to register their attendance in advance either by filling in the relevant form on the lecture page or by contacting the office at admin@alpineclub.org (Please note that a donation is requested on entry).
Anyone who has had an interesting trip and would be prepared to lecture is invited to contact the AC Office or the lecture organisers.
Each event includes a clickable map with the address of the venue.
Events Calendar
Hugh is the youngest son of renowned Everest pioneer and military leader E.F (Teddy) Norton. Hugh lives in Bristol and his biography of his father, published in May 2017, reveals Teddy’s remarkable life as a mountaineer, soldier, naturalist and artist. Enlisting as a soldier during the declining years of the British Empire, Teddy’s gift for leadership saw him rapidly move through the ranks in the First World War, which paved the way for future leadership roles. Notably, when General Charles Bruce was struck down with malaria on the approach march of the 1924 Everest expedition, Teddy led from the front, setting an altitude record for climbing Everest without supplementary oxygen – a record only bettered when Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen in 1978. Yet tragedy would follow his achievement when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared high on the mountain.
Upper Room of Nova Scotia, Cumberland Basin, Hotwells
Bristol
BS1 6XJ
UK
