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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Lectures

Here is a list of lectures at the Alpine Club. Select additional pages using the numbers at the bottom.

The lectures provide a good opportunity for AC members to meet one another and exchange news, views and information. New members and prospective members are particularly welcome. Prospective members are asked to contact the AC office before attending. Lectures generally start at 7:30pm.

For the lectures in London, non-members are asked to register their attendance in advance either by filling in the relevant form on the lecture page or by contacting the office at admin@alpineclub.org (Please note that a donation is requested on entry).

Anyone who has had an interesting trip and would be prepared to lecture is invited to contact the AC Office or the lecture organisers.

Each event includes a clickable map with the address of the venue.

Events Calendar

Jim Milledge: Stanhope T. Speer, Alpinist and Physician.
Tuesday 14 June 2016, 07:30pm
Contact Derek Buckle
Tuesday 14 June 2016

 

 In 1853, First Description of Mountain Sickness: Jim recently unearthed a hitherto unknown early publication on mountain sickness (MS) and has subsequently published a paper about it in the High Altitude Medicine journal. In this talk he will recount the story of Speer’s pioneering research. Speer qualified in Edinburgh, and started climbing as a student. He made the first ascent of one of the three summits of the Wetterhorn, the Mittelhorn, in 1845. He had various medical jobs, including 3 years as Prof. of Medicine in Dublin. Later he was in General Practice in Cheltenham and retired at the age of 37! In 1853, he published an excellent paper on Mountain Sickness. This was 60 years before the two papers usually regarded as the first modern descriptions of MS since Speer’s paper was unknown to Mountain Medicine at the time. In 2014, Jim found a reprint of Speer’s paper in the AC library, where it must have languished for the past 161 years!

 

Location London
55/56 Charlotte Road
London
EC2A 3QF
Uk