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 MemberEvents 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
Bens & Glens: Mapping Scotland’s Landscape.
Spanning more than 400 years this illustrated talk explores the mapping of Scotland, moving from early maps drawn from written descriptions to detailed maps created by triangulated surveys. Mountains and lochs pose quite different challenges to the surveyor, resulting in techniques innovated here in Scotland which have gone global and become so familiar that it is hard to imagine maps without them…
