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!
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News has reached us of the death of our member Evelio Echevarria. He helped out a lot with the Alpine Journal and was the author of The Andes, The Complete History of Mountaineering in High South America. He had been a member for 60 years.
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We are saddened by the news that Alan Harris passed away in his 100th year on Friday 17th July.
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News has reached us of the death of our member, Jeremy Whitehead.
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News has reached us of the death of our member Peter Page. who had been a member for 40 years.
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We have been informed of the sad death on 9 July of Anne Sauvy (Wilkinson) who had been a member since 1975. In addition to being a very accomplished alpine ice climber, Anne is best known as a prize winning mountain author. Her books of short stories - Flammes des Pierres - The Game of Mountain and Chance - Darkness and the Azure - were translated into multiple languages and won many literary awards. Anne also wrote 'Mountain Rescue Chamonix Mont Blanc, a highly acclaimed account of the PGHM rescue service.
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