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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Events By Location

Below is a list of all of this years AC events organised by location. The location is on the left and the event descriptions in the middle, more details on the specific locations are on the right

Events Calendar

Kyrgyzstan - Big horns, Big snowfall and Big unclimbed peaks
Wednesday 11 February 2015, 07:30pm - 09:30pm
Wednesday 11 February 2015
Adrian relates how an inexperienced and (mostly!) young British team travelled to a remote area of Kyrgyzstan in search of exploratory mountaineering. They returned with alpine rock routes up to HVS, alpine snow and ice routes to Difficile and six previously unclimbed summits.
Location Peak District
The Sir William
Grindleford
Derbyshire
S32 2HS
UK