Alpine Club (UK)
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The Alpine Club was founded in London on 22 December 1857 and is the world's first mountaineering club. The primary focus of the club is to support mountaineers who climb in the Alps and the Greater R
Title page from Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, 1859, edited by John Ball, first president of the Alpine Club
Leslie Stephen
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Sir Leslie Stephen was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, mountaineer, and an Ethical movement activist. He was also the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and the founder of Eng
Stephen c. 1860
Harriet and Leslie Stephen, 1867
Harriet's grave, Kensal Green Cemetery
Julia Duckworth by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872