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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For this audio-only recording, Harish sits down with Japanese mountaineer Hiroshi Sakai. They discuss the 2002 Indo-Japanese East Karakoram Expedition alongside Sakai's other expeditions, his experiences climbing in the Alps and his family life.

 

 

The image of Nanga Parbat used to illustrate the video was taken by Daniel Martin and is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported license. The image has not been altered from the original, but it has had a waveform placed on top of it for the video.