The Mountain Club archives

The Mountain Club archives index

The range of documents and images gives a powerful insight into how the club has developed over its 70-year history.

The Mountain Club archives project

As part of The Mountain Club's 70th anniversary celebrations, the back catalogue of magazines, reports and historical materials was...

Matterhorn Madness July 2007

What started out as an, ‘I’ve always wanted to climb the Matterhorn’, conversation in the pub one Thursday evening turned into reality. A...

Easter Weekend Meet 2003 – Langdale

Climbing on Gimmer Crag, scrambling on Jack's Rake and a few damp walks. An excellent weekend for everyone, despite the inauspicious...

Yorkshire Dales Meet October 2015

Cwm Cywarch New Routes Book

The Cywarch New Routes books were bound into one volume by John A. Sumner (Fritz) & returned to 'Bryn Hafod' in March 1986. This book was...

The Cowarch Cottage

Plans and estimates for rebuilding the derelict mine in Cwm Cowarch for use as a mountaineering hut. December 1959. This journal is...

Scraggs 80

Snow and Ice in Mid-Wales by Glenn Kirkham A Taste of the Bernese Oberland by Barrie Knox I'm No Bloody Walker by John Codling Treading...

The Mountains Club Magazine 1986

Matterhorn '85 by Jim Hall Return to Saul's Crack by Pete Cockshot Hengwn Revisted by Wendy Goulstone Swiss Route on the Courtes by John...

The Mountains Club Magazine 1979

Yosemite Reflections by Dave WIiggin Offa's Dyke Footpath - The Easy Way by Mary Galpin One Day In July by Ian Cowan Running In The...

The Mountains Club Magazine Autumn 73

A Tolkein type tale: Strange Lands and Wild Places by Rob Thorndyke Rescue on the Walker Spur by John Sumner Six Days at the Vallot Hut...

The Mountain Club Journal 1984

Editorial by Alison Tapley Escapades Ecosses by Jim Hall My Latest VS by Alison Tapley In The Extreme - Eventually! by Dave Kent...

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