The Mountain Club of South Africa explained

The Mountain Club of South Africa
Abbr:MCSA
Logosize:150px
Country Flag:RSA
Url:http://www.mcsa.org.za
Sport:Mountaineering
Historytitle:History
Preceding Organizations:-->
Founded:1891
Demographicstitle:Demographics
Affiliationstitle:Affiliations
If:International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation
If Abbr:UIAA
Electedtitle:Elected
President:Paul Carstensen
Board Type:Board
Sectitle:Secretariat
Address1:97 Hatfield St
Address2:Cape Town
Country:South Africa
Financetitle:Finance
Regionstitle:Regions

The Mountain Club of South Africa (MCSA) is the largest and oldest mountaineering club in South Africa. It facilitates and engages in mountaineering, climbing of all types, bouldering, hiking, international expeditions, mountain search and rescue, training, conservation of mountain areas, and procurement of access for mountaineering.

History

The MCSA was founded in 1891[1] and hence is one of the oldest mountaineering clubs in the world. Since its establishment, the MCSA has been embedded with and reflected, the political ideology and interests of the social and governing class during the colonial and segregation eras.[2] This situation prevailed for most of the apartheid era, when the club finally opened its membership to all, regardless of race and the first black member was admitted in 1986. The MCSA is the only mountain club in Africa affiliated with the world mountaineering body, the UIAA.[3] Members of the MCSA have climbed and hiked on all the major mountain ranges throughout the world. Since its inception, the MCSA has published an annual journal. The MCSA Journal is one of the oldest mountain club journals still being published on an annual basis.

The club consists of 14 sections spread over South Africa and Namibia and with more than 4000 members.

The objectives of the Mountain Club of South Africa are to further the interests of mountaineering in South Africa and elsewhere, and in doing so inter alia to:

Notable members

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: South African Panorama 1974-11: Vol 19 Iss 11. November 1974. Information Service of South Africa. English.
  2. Farieda Khan 2018: A Century of Mountaineering: Race, Class and the Politics of climbing Table Mountain, 1890 - 1990. Acta Academica, 50 (2), pp.52-74.
  3. http://www.theuiaa.org/home/member-federation-profile-the-mountain-club-of-south-africa/ UIAA website September 2016