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
To mark 100 years since the British Everest expedition of 1924, on which George Mallory and Sandy Irvine were lost high on the mountain, the Alpine Club will be hosting a new exhibition, Everest 1924, which will profile the personalities at the centre of the expedition, including some of the local workers who made the venture possible, and consider the lasting legacy of one of the earliest bids for the "roof of the world".
As part of the exhibition's official opening, we will be holding a special evening event which will include the premiere of a new film about the 1924 Expedition. The film, titled Everest Revisited 1924-2024, uses extensive historical footage, as well as interviews with Everest scholars and mountaineers to tell the story of 1924 and to ask questions about what the mountain means to climbers and Nepalis 100 years on from this famous expedition.
The 1924 Everest base camp. Photo courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society.
The exhibition will run from 4 June to 25 July 2024, with this official opening taking place from 7PM on 11 June 2024. The offical opening is a free event and you can sign up to attend using the form below.
55/56 Charlotte Road
London
EC2A 3QF
Uk
