Alpine Club Guide
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The Alpine Club Guides are the standard series of Alpine guides that cover all the important mountain groups in the Eastern Alps
. They are produced jointly by the German
(DAV), Austrian (ÖAV) and South Tyrol Alpine Clubs (AVS). They have been published since 1950 by the firm of Bergverlag Rother
in Munich, Germany.
The AV guides contain all the routes – hiking trails, mountain hut approaches and summit climbs as well as ice and high mountain routes and klettersteigs in each mountain range. The descriptions are factual and dry, with few illustrations - rather unlike mountain books by e.g. Walter Pause – and despite introductory sections require general Alpine knowledge and experience. Examples are the AVF Allgäuer Alpen and the AVF Verwallgruppe.The AV guides are often used as the basis for other publications and complement the Alpine Club map
s or other map series.
Eastern Alps
Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of the Splügen Pass in eastern Switzerland. North of the Splügen Pass, the Posterior Rhine forms the border, and south of the pass, the Liro river and Lake Como form the boundary line.-Geography:The...
. They are produced jointly by the German
German Alpine Club
The German Alpine Club or DAV is the largest climbing association in the world and the eighth largest sports union in Germany. It is organised into 354 legally independent branches with a total of around 815,000 members...
(DAV), Austrian (ÖAV) and South Tyrol Alpine Clubs (AVS). They have been published since 1950 by the firm of Bergverlag Rother
Bergverlag Rother
Bergverlag Rother is a German publisher with its headquarters in Oberhaching, Upper Bavaria. Since 1950 the company, that formerly went udern the name of Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, has published the Alpine Club Guides in cooperation with the German Alpine Club , the Austrian Alpine Club and the...
in Munich, Germany.
The AV guides contain all the routes – hiking trails, mountain hut approaches and summit climbs as well as ice and high mountain routes and klettersteigs in each mountain range. The descriptions are factual and dry, with few illustrations - rather unlike mountain books by e.g. Walter Pause – and despite introductory sections require general Alpine knowledge and experience. Examples are the AVF Allgäuer Alpen and the AVF Verwallgruppe.The AV guides are often used as the basis for other publications and complement the Alpine Club map
Alpine Club map
Alpine Club maps are specially detailed maps for summer and winter mountain climbers . They are predominantly published at a scale of 1:25.000, although some individual sheets have scales of 1:50.000 and 1:100.000....
s or other map series.
Available guides
- Allgäuer und Ammergauer Alpen alpin (Dieter Seibert)
- Bayerische Voralpen Ost (Marianne and Emmeram Zebhauser)
- Berchtesgadener Alpen alpin (Bernhard Kühnhauser)
- BregenzerwaldBregenzerwaldBregenzerwald is one of the main regions in the state of Vorarlberg, Austria. Geologically, the Bregenzerwald is a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps, specifically the northern flysch zone. It is the drainage basin of the Bregenzer Ach river....
- und Lechquellengebirge alpin (Dieter Seibert) - Dolomiten: Civettagruppe (Andreas Kubin)
- Dolomiten: Geisler- und Steviagruppe (Ernst Eugen Stiebritz)
- Dolomiten: Pelmo (Richard Goedeke)
- Dolomiten: Puez- und Peitlerkofelgruppe (Ernst Eugen Stiebritz)
- Dolomiten: Sella und Langkofel extrem (Richard Goedeke)
- Dolomiten: Sextener Dolomiten extrem (Richard Goedeke)
- Eisenerzer Alpen (Fritz Peterka)
- Gesäuseberge / Ennstaler AlpenEnnstaler AlpenThe Ennstal Alps are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps. They are located in the Austrian states of Styria and Upper Austria, but mostly in Styria...
(Willi End) - Glockner- und Granatspitzgruppe (Willi End)
- Hochkönig (Albert Precht)
- KaisergebirgeKaisergebirgeThe Kaisergebirge is a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps and Eastern Alps. It consists of two main mountain ridges – the Zahmer Kaiser to the north and the Wilder Kaiser to the south. The entire range is situated in the Austrian state of Tyrol between the town of Kufstein and the...
alpin (Horst Höfler and Jan Piepenstock) - KaisergebirgeKaisergebirgeThe Kaisergebirge is a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps and Eastern Alps. It consists of two main mountain ridges – the Zahmer Kaiser to the north and the Wilder Kaiser to the south. The entire range is situated in the Austrian state of Tyrol between the town of Kufstein and the...
extrem (Pit Schubert) - KarawankenKarawankenKaravanke or Karawanken is an Alpine mountain range on the border between Slovenia and Austria. With a total length of 120 km, the Karavanke chain is one of the longest ranges in Europe....
(Hans M. Tuschar) - Karnischer Hauptkamm (Peter Holl)
- KarwendelKarwendelThe Karwendel is the largest range of the Northern Limestone Alps. Four chains stretch from west to east; in addition, there are a number of fringe ranges and an extensive promontory in the north....
alpin (Walter Klier) - Lechtaler Alpen alpin (Dieter Seibert)
- Mieminger Kette (Rudolf Wutscher)
- Niedere TauernNiedere TauernThe Niedere Tauern or Low Tauern are a mountain range in central Austria, part of the Central Eastern Alps. They lie on the main chain of the Alps in in the states of Salzburger Land and Styria...
(Peter Holl) - Ötztaler Alpen (Walter Klier)
- Ortleralpen (Peter Holl)
- Samnaungruppe (Paul Werner and Ludwig Thoma)
- SilvrettaSilvrettaThe Silvretta Alps are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps shared by Tirol, Vorarlberg and Graubünden . The Austrian states of Tirol and Vorarlberg are connected by a pass road . The majority of the peaks are elevated above three thousand metres and are surrounded by glaciers...
alpin (Günter Flaig) - Stubaier Alpen alpin (Walter Klier)
- TennengebirgeTennengebirgeThe Tennengebirge is a small, but rugged, mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, which lies in front of the Eastern Alps for its entire length. It is a very heavily karstified high plateau, about 60 km² in area, with many caves...
(Albert Precht) - Totes GebirgeTotes GebirgeThe Totes Gebirge is a group of mountains in Austria, part of the Northern Limestone Alps, lying between the Salzkammergut and the Ennstaler Alpen. The name Totes Gebirge is derived from the German words tot meaning "dead", referring to the apparent lack of vegetation, and Gebirge meaning "mountain...
(Gisbert Rabeder) - Venedigergruppe (Willi End and Hubert Peterka)
- Verwallgruppe (Peter Pindur, Roland Luzian and Andreas Weiskopf)
- Wetterstein (Stefan Beulke)
- Zillertaler Alpen (Walter Klier)
Out-of-print guides
- Ankogel- and Goldberggruppe (Liselotte Buchenauer und Peter Holl, 1986)
- Brentagruppe (Heinz Steinkötter, 1988)
- Chiemgauer Alpen (Marianne and Helmuth Zebhauser, 1988)
- Dachstein Ost (Willi End, 1980)
- Dachstein West (Willi End, 1980)
- Dolomiten: Cristallogruppe (Jürgen and Angelika Schmidt, 1981)
- Dolomiten: Marmolada (Heinz Mariacher, 1983)
- Dolomiten: Rosengartengruppe (Heinz Mariacher, 1988)
- Dolomiten: Schiaragruppe (Richard Goedeke, 1981)
- Hochschwab (Günter and Luise Auferbauer, 1990)
- Kitzbüheler Alpen (Georg Bleier and Kurt Kettner, 1984)
- Loferer und Leoganger Steinberge (Nikolaus Stockklauser and Adi Stocker, 1991)
- Lienzer Dolomiten (Hubert Peterka and Willi End, 1984)
- Rätikon (Günther Flaig, 1974)
- Rieserfernergruppe (Werner Beikircher, 1983)
- Rofangebirge (Rudolf Röder, Ernst Schmid and Rudger v. Werden, 1983)
- Schobergruppe (Walter Mair, 1979)
- Tannheimer Berge (Marcus Lutz, 1992)