Alpine Journal

Alpine Journal

Infobox Journal


discipline = Climbing, Mountaineering
website = [http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/publications/alpine-journal.html]
publisher =
country = United Kingdom
abbreviation = Alpine J
history = 1863 to present
frequency = Annual
ISSN = 0065-6569

The "Alpine Journal" is the yearly publication of the Alpine Club of London.

History

The journal was first published on 2 March 1863 by the publishing house of Longmans in London, with Hereford Brooke George as its first editor. The journal was a replacement for "Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers", which had been issued in two series: in 1858 (with John Ball as editor), and 1862 (in two volumes, with E. S. Kennedy as editor)."Peaks, Passes and Glaciers", ed. Walt Unsworth, London: Allen Lane, 1981, p. 15

Notable editors

*Douglas Freshfield (1872–1880)
*John Percy Farrar
*Edward Lisle Strutt (1927–1937)
*T. Graham Brown (1949–1953)

References

External links

* [http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/publications/alpine-journal.html "Alpine Journal" homepage]


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