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The Club Room at Zermatt in 1864

The artists drawing depicts a group of men sitting on the left and another group of men standing wearing more distinguished clothes for the time period and another group of sitting on stools and a woman stands in the background near an entryway to a building.

Original drawing by Edward Whymper; Source: WikiMedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Club-Room_of_Zermatt_in_1864_by_Edward_Whymper.jpg); Date: 1864.

The Alpine Club (UK) was the first official mountaineering club that opened in 1857 but a few short years later clubs opened in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy.