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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Banff Mountain Book Competition Category Finalists Announced

The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival have released the list of category finalists for the 2024 Mountain Book Competition. Among the shortlisted titles are three books by Alpine Club members.

Graham Zimmerman's A Fine Line is shortlisted for the Jon Whyte Award for non-fiction mountain literature, while Heather Dawe's Dreams of Lost Buttresses and Ben Tibbetts' The 4000m Peaks of the Alps, Volume 1: West  have been nominated in the Mountain Fiction & Poetry and Guidebook categories, respectively. 

Reviews of A Fine Line and Dreams of Lost Buttresses feature in this year's Alpine Journal.