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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This site is a portal into route information, mainly from camptocamp.org, (c2c) for various categories of mountaineering.
Click on the title links below to see the lists, or go to the category pages from the drop down menu for more information.  Where the name appears in blue in the lists, there is a link to a route description in English.
The categories are:

Fun Fives: Over 120 multipitch climbs, usually bolted, all doable at F5 and can be done in a day from the Chamonix valley.
Happy_Alpine:  205 of the best alpine routes in the Mont Blanc and Aiguilles Rouges massifs, up to grade TD-.
Soft Ice:  Selected valley ice climbs in the Mont Blanc region, up to grade 4.
Ski Hikes: 65 of the most popular ski tours, (up to S4) in the Mont Blanc region.
Huts_Bivvies:  A list of all 50 of the huts, from the large, guarded refuges to the tiny bivouac shelters,  in the Mont Blanc massif.
The_Blodigs:  A list of sixty two  peaks over 4000m in the Alps, formed by amalgamating the modified list from K. Blodig (61) with the original list from R. Goedeke (61).
Funcrags: A list of 30 roadside (max 15 mins walking, 2 exceptions of 30mins,) single pitch crags, within an easy drive from Chamonix.
Fun_Days:  A list of scrambles, via ferratas, via cordas, climbing walls and other bad weather ideas to be found in the Mont Blanc region.
Off Piste Skiing :  Some ideas for Off Piste skiing in the Mont Blanc Region.
Fun Scrambles: 50 plus scrambles near Chamonix
Funbikes:  10 road and 3 offroad rides, plus 1 road tour.
AC Links:  Links to non-commercial mountaineering sites.

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Or here for latest c2c outings in the Mont Blanc region.  Do not forget to add your own outings to the c2c website.  Chamonix weather forecast1  or weather forecast2.

The funalps site is supported by the Alpine Club and provides an English language doorway to route descriptions (mainly) on the  www.camptocamp.org (c2c) site.
c2c is a non-commercial, “wiki” type site, by climbers for climbers.  It has been running for over 20 years, (over 10 years as c2c,) and has well over 30,000 route descriptions, mainly for the Western Alps. The descriptions are mostly in French and can be awkward for the English language user. The funalps  site aims to address this problem.

The funalps site consists of eight categories of selected outings lists.  After selecting a list one can then click on a chosen route to access, ( in most cases,) an  English translation of the route description on the c2c site.    The category pages also give details of the many relevant  guidebooks.

If you find funalps useful, it is recommended you register with the c2c site, which is free, quick and easy. This allows you to edit and improve the route descriptions, as well as adapting the interface options to your own needs. The more climbers that contribute, the better the site will become.

One of the main aims of the Alpine Club is the dissemination of Alpine route information and to this end it has produced the definitive guidebooks to the Alps for the last 150 years.  By cooperating with camptocamp, the AC hopes to continue this tradition through the internet.

 

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