Austrian Alpine Club

Austrian Alpine Club
Sport	Mountaineering
Category	Amateur athletic association
Founded	November 19, 1862 (1862-11-19)
Regional affiliation	195 sections
Headquarters	Innsbruck
President	Andreas Ermacora
Official website
www.alpenverein.at

The Austrian Alpine Club - or more accurately the Austrian Alpine Association - (German: Oesterreichischer Alpenverein) has about 450,000 members (as of 2012) in 195 sections and is the largest mountaineering organisation in Austria. It is responsible for the upkeep of over 242 alpine huts in Austria and neighbouring countries. It also maintains over 40,000 kilometres of footpaths, and produces detailed maps of key mountain areas within Austria. Much of this work is done by the Association's 22,000 volunteers.

The Association also has sections in Belgium and the United Kingdom, and a group in Poland.

• Belgium: Vlaanderen Klim- en bergsportfederatie, or Sektion Flandern - 8600 members (as of 2012)
• United Kingdom: Austrian Alpine Club (UK), or Sektion Britannia - 8200 members (as of 2012)
• Poland: Alpenverein grupa polska - a group hosted within (the Vienna-based) Sektion Austria

In 1871 Guido von List became the Association's secretary.

The Association has an museum in Innsbruck dedicated to the history of alpinism.

See also

• South Tyrol Alpine Association (Alpenverein Südtirol, AVS)
• German Alpine Association (Deutscher Alpenverein, DAV)

External links

• OeAV (Austrian Alpine Association) (German)
• Austrian Alpine Club(UK) - OeAV Sektion Britannia (English)
• Alpenverein grupa polska (Ortsgruppe of OeAV Sektion Austria) (Polish)