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
Born in Edinburgh in 1882, Graham Brown first pursued a career in the sciences as a physiologist. His mountaineering career began after WW1 when he progressed to climbs in the Alps and a fateful introduction to Frank Smythe in 1927. They made the ground-breaking first ascents of the Sentinelle Rouge and the Route Major on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc.
This resulted in an obsession with the mountain and a feud between the pair that smouldered and flared for 20 years. Ambitious, determined and uncompromising in his views, Brown never left others feeling neutral: Geoffrey Winthrop Young thought him "a vicious lunatic". Brown's life was one of turbulence in his career, relationships and in the mountains, whether on expeditions to Mount Foraker, Nanda Devi and Masherbrum, or most frequently, the Alps.
AC member Peter Foster is the author of The Uncrowned King of Mont Blanc, a biography that charts Graham Brown’s scientific and climbing careers and explores the imbalance between the significance of his achievements and the lack of recognition he received.
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