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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Exhibitions

The Club is pleased to be able to use its premises and resources, along with its renowned archive of mountaineering reports, books, art and artefacts to host and curate exhibitions that celebrate mountain history and culture. As well as spotlighting the work of contemporary artists and academics, the Club has also worked to mark key mountaineering anniversaries; bringing together records of the past to keep our history alive and engaging for climbers and the wider community alike.

Individual exhibitions may vary, but most take place at our Charlotte Road Club House.

A full list of past and upcoming exhibitions is shown below.

Women With Altitude

From November 2021 to January 2022, the Alpine Club hosted a joint exhibition in partnership with the Pinnacle Club to celebrate the last century of female mountaineering. Held in the centenary year of the Pinnacle Club, the exhibition profiled 12 pioneering female climbers who had been members of one or both clubs in the previous 100 years. With the exhibition's run now at an end, we are making the exhibition materials available online. These include the complete displays for each of the 12 profiled women, a video walk through of the exhibition hosted by Alpine Club librarian Beth Hodgett and a collection of educational resources for young people that were produced to accompany the exhibition.

The sampling of the banners included below feature QR codes which, when scanned, will direct you to a sound recording of the profiled individual or a contemporary reading of something they wrote during their lifetime. To scan the QR code, simply click on the banner, select to expand it by using the icon in the top left corner of the image, focus on the QR code using your phone's camera and follow the link that is generated. The audio recording will play automatically.

 

Display Banners



 



The additional banners and photographs of the exhibition displays can be viewed in the exhibition booklet below:

 

Video Walk Through

 

Exhibition Videos

100 Years of the Pinnacle Club:

 

Educational Resources

A variety of resources were produced to accompany the exhibition and are tailored to young people from KS2 to KS4 (7-16). Click the link below to access a pdf booklet of the resources.