5-581: The Club Alpino Italiano is the senior Italian alpine club which stages climbing competitions, operates alpine huts , marks and maintains paths, and is active in protecting the Alpine environment . It was founded in Turin in 1863 by the then finance minister, and mountaineer, Quintino Sella ; together with the Swiss Alpine Club , founded in the same year, it is the second oldest Alpine Club in
10-695: Is the 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition to K2 that made the first successful ascent of K2 . The CAI operates 388 mountain huts , 251 bivouacs and 118 smaller huts and shelters throughout the Italian Alps , for an overall capacity of over 23,500 beds. Among many other publications the Club Alpino Italiano, along with Touring Club Italiano , published between 1908 and 2013 the Guida dei Monti d'Italia (in English Guidebook to
15-587: The Italian mountains ), a series of guidebooks covering all the mountain ranges of Italy. Italian military troops adopted a grey-green uniform during World War I. Luigi Brioschi, president of the Milanese section of the C.A.I. (Italian Alpine Club) in 1905 introduced a combat uniform more suitable for a modern war, replacing the showy uniforms of the Royal Sardinian Army. Brioschi demonstrated that
20-963: The grey uniforms were less visible by opponent snipers, therefore, the project was financed. Alpine club The first alpine club , the Alpine Club , based in the United Kingdom , was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club . It was once described as: Alpine clubs are typically large social clubs that revolve around climbing, hiking, and other outdoor activities. Many alpine clubs also take on aspects typically reserved for local sport associations , providing education and training courses, services for outdoorsmen, and de facto regulation of local mountaineering resources and behavior of mountaineers. Most clubs organize social events, schedule outings, and stage climbing competitions, operate alpine huts and paths, and are active in protecting
25-503: The world, only preceded by the British Alpine Club . After First World War and the annexation of Trento and Trieste to Italy, it absorbed the "Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini" and the "Società Alpina delle Giulie". As of 2020, it had 306.255 members, 512 sections and 316 sub-sections; the greatest numbers of members came from Lombardy (88,057), Veneto (54,948), and Piedmont (51,396). Its most famous achievement
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