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
Join Dr Anna Fleming for a talk on mountain literature, tracing the ways that writers since Samuel Taylor Coleridge have captured the experience of climbing. This historical exploration will lead into readings and discussions from Anna's own Boardman-Tasker shortlisted book, Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains. The book is an account of ten years learning to climb on different rocks across the British Isles, from Yorkshire limestone to Lake District rhyolite. It presents a climber’s view of the natural world, tracing a geological and personal journey across the British Isles.
Anna is a rock climber and qualified mountain leader who has also worked for the Cairngorms National Park Authority. She completed a PhD with the University of Leeds examining how William Wordsworth’s poetry was shaped by communities within the Lake District. Anna is also a regular contributor to the online nature-writing magazine, Caught by the River and recently edited an anthology of creative writing about the Cairngorms, Shared Stories: A Year in the Cairngorms. As well as writing for The Guardian, she keeps a regular blog, The Granite Sea, in which she writes about her experiences of the natural world.
Start Time: 19:30
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria St, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL
Contact: Timothy Elson - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
