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 MemberDerek will be talking about his return visit to the Rassa Glacier region of India's Nubra Valley to explore one of the hitherto unvisited spurs of this complex glacier system and attempt one or more previously unclimbed 6000m peaks. A lot had changed since his last visit in 2016, but this did not stop two members of the team from making a first ascent of their primary 6,365m objective.