Loving the mountains since 1869
German Alpine Club (DAV) celebrates its 150th birthday
On 9 May 1869, German and Austrian mountaineers founded the Deutscher Alpenverein (DAV) - German Alpine Association in English - as a “bourgeois mountaineering association”. Over subsequent 150 years, the DAV, a founder member of the UIAA, has grown to become 'the world's largest national mountaineering association, the nature conservation association with the largest number of members, as well as one of the largest sports associations in Germany'. Today, it unites around 1.3 million members...