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 MemberLectures
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
A journey from Pudsey to Tibet over thirty years. For our final talk of the year we are honoured to entertain Paul Ramsden who will tell a Tale of Four Axes - A Journey from Pudsey to Tibet over Thirty Years. Paul Ramsden is an exceptional mountaineer who has climbed extensively with Mick Fowler and had done all the famous North Faces in the Alps by the time he was nineteen. He is the recipient of four Piolet d'Ors. Three of the routes were climbed with Mick and the most recent, with Nick Bullock. These comprise a new route on the north face of Siguniang (6250m) in China in 2003, the prow of Shiva (India) in 2013, the north face and first ascent of Gave Ding (6571m) in Nepal in 2016 and the North face of Nyanchen (7046m) in Tibet in 2017. Impressive achievements indeed for an occupational hygienist in full time employment! It’s grand that we have a mountaineer of Paul’s status visiting us in Edinburgh.
Quaker Meeting House located at 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Lectures start at 7.30pm
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The pre-lecture tradition of entertaining the speaker before the talks continues this season. If you would like to join the guest and those from the Alpine Club, Edinburgh Section of the Junior Mountaineering Club of Scotland or the Scottish Mountaineering Club before-hand, for a meal then please contact Tim or Zoe before-hand to book a place. Howie’s Restaurant a few doors away from the QMH is the usual preferred venue.
