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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We'd make a witty reply but we're not sure our parent account would approve! ;-)

Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Our librarian is back at work on rebinding some of our old Alpine Journals. These are the working copies in the library and after a hundred years or so they can start to need a bit of tlc! #bookbinding #bookrepair

Disbound Alpine Journal next to a roll of bookbinding tools

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Want a calendar? Not too keen on mountains? Love flowers? (Even ones endemic to mountains?) Buy the club calendar! Illustrations by JD Hooker who is generally considered to be pretty good at this sort of thing. #HimalyanFlora #Mountains #Flowers alpineclub.org/shop/2027-al...

Back of calendar showing closeup of the flowers for each month

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An exciting opportunity for anyone (artist, academic, author) working on a mountaineering project! We do recommend getting in touch to talk about what we have in the library as one of the ideas behind the award is to promote greater use of our heritage collections! #funding #mountaineeringhistory

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The Alpine Club @alpineclub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just getting things lined up ahead of tonight's exhibition opening with Salto Ulbeek. Unfortunately, the event is sold out, but you can book to visit the exhibition throughout the rest of its run via our website ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc4v2rdn

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'Autumn' 🍂 We're guessing everyone else went with leaves & trees ... but it's spooky season after all. Charnel house at Täsch - engraving by Edward Whymper #SkullsForSpookySeason

A black and white engraving of the Charnel house at Täsch. Most of the image is of a pile of skulls and other bones with an open door.

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The Alpine Club @alpineclub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alongside the spectacular platinum-palladium prints at our new exhibition 'Long Exposure' (book here ➡️ tinyurl.com/4uvxtm85) we’re also displaying a selection of Führerbucher. These "Guide’s Books" were used to record testimonials from the clients of guides to help them secure future work.

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're very excited to be going to the opening of @trincolllibcam.bsky.social Trinity Mountaineers exhibition this evening! Had the privilege of a sneak peak at the preperations a few weeks ago when delivering some loan items! #MountaineeringHistory #NightClimbing #Mountaineering

Photograph of the back of a painting with a photo of two men standing on it

Scrapbook open to a photo of a climber and a photograph of an alpine mountain range

A selection of books relating to night climbing in cambridge

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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism

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The Alpine Club @alpineclub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the featured photographers in our new exhibition 'Long Exposure' (book here ➡️ tinyurl.com/4uvxtm85) is Frank Smythe. One of the first climbing celebrities, Smythe brought the public closer to mountaineering than ever before, illustrating 27 books with his own stunning monochrome photography.

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Stop the presses! Our librarian is on a roof! (Of a church, using stairs) #RBSCG26

Corner of head and view over Cambridge roofs

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So much roof - so little climbing. Apparently she was too busy listening to talks, meeting nice people & visiting the Parker library (also climbable) and the conservation centre (probably climbable) #RBSCG26 #NotForMountaineers #ButAGreatTimeForlibrarians

View from librarians accommodation across the roof of St Johns old court towards the chapel

Virw of the Parkers Library, with kickstool

The first printed anglo-saxon book on display at the Parker library

Selection of different sewings and spines from the conversation centre

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We've sent our librarian to the #RBSCG conference - despite all the talk of Night Climbing she's still refusing to climb anything #NotMountaineering #WhyIsntOurLibrarianOnaRoof? @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social

Picture of opening slide saying RBSCG 2026

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Excited to deliver loan items for @trincolllibcam.bsky.social upcoming exhibition on Trinity Mountaineers!

Ice axes and unwrapped copy of Roof Climbers of Trinity lying on table

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Sporting Heritage CIC @sportingheritage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎉 The Countdown Begins...Celebrate National Sporting Heritage Day on September 30th! 🎉 Share your collections, stories, events and activities with us using #NSHD2026. More Info: sportingheritage.org.uk/nshd

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is Reflections. We're sharing this photo taken by Lizzie Le Blond - one of the pioneers of female mountaineering and a founder member of the Ladies Alpine Club

Black and white photograph of the Matterhorn reflected in a lake

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Audrey Salkeld #Bursary is now open for applications! It provides UK-based researchers, writers, artists, videographers and filmmakers with an opportunity to visit and conduct research using the #archives and #heritage collections of the @alpineclub.bsky.social . alpineclub.org/page/audrey-...

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Excited to get a name check for our librarian and the Audrey Salkeld Bursary in this new book by Rosemary Brown looking at women climbers. Rosemary also has a lecture lined up at the club in October alpineclub.org/event/rosema... #womenshistory #mountaineering #sporthistory

Cover of Moving Mounrains by Rosemary Brow n

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Our librarian went to the Society of Bokkbinders conference and all she got us are these boxes. #conferenceseason #boxes

Pile of cardboard a5 boxes made from a single sheet of folded card

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Temperatures mean we're back in the basement - turns out one of the map portfolios also contains old tourist posters!

Large 1920s style poster advertising Pilatus Nahn

LnWR poster advertising climbing in the Lake District

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Today's job is stabilising and repairing the slightly nibbled looking corner of this map. This is one of the panels of the @alpineclub.bsky.social map of Swotzetland from 1876 #repairs #conservation

Pitcure showing map with paint brush, bone folder and japanese repair tissue

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘nature and animals’ for An A-Z of Beatrix Potter at The Armitt 🐇 As we've recently added a bunch of Whymper engravings to our ArtUk page we couldn't resist this one of foxes in the snow originally drawn by Joseph Wolf

Black and white engraving of foxes circling a tent in the snow. Signed Wolf 1883, Whymper's signature is in the opposite corner but partially cut off by the image cropping

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is summer! We've chosen Monte Civetta and Lago di Alleghe by Josiah Gilbert (1814–1892). The green fields and calm water promise relaxing summer walks and perhaps a cooling swim!

Monte Civetta and Lago di Alleghe
Josiah Gilbert (1814–1892)

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Excitingly we've just received the April issue of Who Do You Think You Are? which has a very nice piece on one of our archive items! (Still available as a back issue 😉)

Page entitled An Alpine guides book from the Who do you think you are magazine

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Many of the items in our collection lived full lives before coming to us. It's lovely to see inscriptions like this that show that books have always been a welcome gift

Inscription says "gift of her papa" clearly written by a child

Title page of the juvenile travelers, 1814

Half red leather covers with marbled papers

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Had a great visit from the @ruskinsociety.bsky.social - glad to see they enjoyed it as much as we did!

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Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#Ruskin kept returning to the #Alps not to conquer summits but to understand them. He drew glaciers like the Mer de Glace with extraordinary geological precision, recording their form & movement. His works are now invaluable records of Alpine glacier loss. #AlpineClubVisit #ClimateChange

John Ruskin, The Mer de Glace from the Montanvers Hotel above Chamonix (1849). Viewed from above, the broad glacier fills the valley with a maze of jagged ice ridges and deep crevasses. Steep rocky slopes rise on either side, leading the eye towards distant snow-covered peaks beneath a pale, hazy sky. Executed in graphite, pen and ink, and delicate brown and blue-grey washes, the drawing combines artistic beauty with remarkable geological precision.

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Are those #hedgehogs ?!? Also please enjoy some cooling pictures of #glaciers from Davy's translation of Bourrit's A Journey to the glaciers, 1776

Armorial bookplate of William Harris showing aggressive hedgehogs on a shield

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This book has some lovely folded plates- including one of some #mountains. Plus is it even a map if its not held aloft by Hermes? Pics from Travels through Germany etc by Keysler, 1760

Map of Keysler route through Europe held by the figure of Hermes

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Our librarian is once again hiding in the basement - she's from the north so really doesn't do heat - on the plus side it means more pics from our #antiquarian books! Enjoy these of Keswicks "druid circle" and Lanercost Priory #lakedistrict #stonecircles

Title page of An excursion to the lakes by Hutchinson, 1776

Drawing of R Hutchinson looking down on something (or someone)

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It us too hot to work in the library so we're hiding in the basement adding volumes to the #estc - which leads to things like this discovery of a map of the north west in a book from 1800

Map of Cumberland, westmoreland and Lancashire from 1800

Title page of a descriptive tour and guide to the lakes caves and mountains of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#OnlineArtExhange theme is 'discovery' for 'Wiltshire and the World: John Aubrey and the Quest for Knowledge' at Chippenham Museum We've chosen Janssen's observatory - the Edicule by Edward Whymper. This was a scientific station perched on to of Mont Blanc

Janssen's observatory - the Edicule. A small wooden shed with an open door propped with an ice axe and a man perched on top

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Spot the difference! Our librarian had to get our copy of Coleman's Scenes from the Snow-Fields out for a visitor so we thought we'd post thus side by side of one of the illustrations with our copy of the original painting. The frontispiece says these were 'sketches made on the spot'.

Illustration of victorian climbers using a ladder to navigate a crevasse

Painting of victorian climbers using a ladder to navigate a crevasse

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Our heavy, skinny, will not be propped open no matter how hard you try, doors.

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Despite the fact that we are housed in a former furniture manufacturers we only have deeply impractical doors (Also our librarian would like people to go and visit @amberleymuseum.bsky.social because it's excellent even it has nothing to do with mountains)

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Our librarian has made a concertina to hold these postcards by ET Compton. This allows for easy handling and keeps them together as a group for users.

A concertina containing postcards by ET Compton depicting mountains and alpine hotels

Open concertina showing first postcard of the Karersees Hotel

Closed concertina - showing buff archival card case

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We don't have murals - but this is round the corner from us! As are many other fine examples of street art :-) #OnlineArtExchange

One of the areas most iconic and longstanding murals with two tube train carriages sitting on the roof above it. The piece has become a landmark of Shoreditch.

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Have you tried your local public library? They're almost certainly signed up to ILL services

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🤔 We’re curious... Do you visit artuk.org? Take less than a minute to complete our survey and have a chance to win a £10 Amazon voucher 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/3RQPK7N 'The Curious Cat' by Ruskin Spear (1911–1990) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman. 📷 The Ingram Collection

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

One of our old AJs is now fit to go back on the shelf! New printed end papers replace the ones which were rubbing off on people's fingers, its been resewn and given a headband to help protect the spine. And the bookplate of the previous donor has been packed back into the front! #bookbinding

Alpine journal volume, hardcover in red bookcloth with gilt stamp showing mountaineers

Inside volume showing endpapers and bookplate of Alajn de Suzanet

Close up of head of spine showing new headband

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If you missed the lecture then you'll be pleased to know we have copies of the book available for sale in the club shop - alpineclub.org/shop/first-o...

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We're currently dreaming of snow ❄️🏔️❄️ The library is (unsurprisingly) very warm today - so if you're planning on visiting us (or coming to the club lecture tonight) be prepared. Bring some water and a fan and take it slow!

Curved Track of a Fallen Ice block in Oberland - painted in white and blue tones with small figures heading along the track tot he peaks beyond.
By Arthur David McCormick (1860–1943)

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today's job - sewing up an early volume of the Alpine Journal so ot can go back on the shelves and be used! #conservation #bookbinding

Journal sections being seen into a text block

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Insects and bees is @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme this week. We've had to hit the books to bring you this delicate watercolour by G Flemwell from the Flower-fields of Alpine Switzerland (plus one of a mountain for good measure) #mountains #butterflies

Young blue flowering plants of Veratrum album together with the white and yellow euphoria and yellow clover also several red butterflies

Green cloth book cover with gold titling and a rondel with alpine flowers at its centre

Fields of pink bistort looking towards lake Champex and a sunset gold glow on the Grand combin mountain

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We're very flattered! Our librarian has been hard at work on her repair skills and we're glad it shows ❤️

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

*the librarian would like you to know that most of the strange objects are books and it's not her fault that round here ice axes are considered normal

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Happy #InternationalMuseumDay to all who celebrate! 🏛️✨ Obviously we are a library - but we do put on exhibitions and we have a basement of strange objects* so we figure we're half way there. This odd object is Greene carrier - bit.ly/43eWgAH

A Greene carrier - a bamboo frame with leather harness designed to carry someone off a mountain

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