The Wayfarers' Club
The Wayfarers' Club is a senior mountaineering club founded in Liverpool, England, in 1906.
In the century of the existence of the Club, Wayfarers have left footprints in every continent and countless countries. In recent years, members' activities have ranged from homely rambles up Langdale to the ascent of Everest.
The club's handbook stated that the club's charter was to "encourage the pursuits of mountaineering, walking, ski-running and cave exploration, to bring together men who are interested in these pursuits and to do whatever shall be deemed by the Committee from time to time to be conducive to the attainment of the foregoing objects". To pursue the club's objects, the Wayfarers have regular organised meets around the UK, often in their own hut or those of their "Kindred Clubs". Informal climbing parties are also frequently in action at home and abroad.
The Wayfarers' Club was a founding member of the British Mountaineering Council,[1] the national representative body of climbers, hill walkers and mountaineers.
The Robertson Lamb Hut
The Wayfarers' Club hut is in Langdale. Officially opened on 16 March 1930, the hut was the first dedicated climbing hut in the Lake District. It has been converted from an existing 18th century barn and is named in memory of Robertson Lamb, whose sister largely financed the conversion. There have been many alterations since 1930, but the character of the hut and its surroundings is an absolute in any such decisions.[2]
Kindred clubs
The Wayfarers' Club have reciprocal rights and 'Kindred Clubs' relationship with some of Britain's oldest climbing clubs.
- Fell and Rock Climbing Club
- The Rucksack Club
- Yorkshire Ramblers' Club
- Climbers' Club
- The Midlands Association of Mountaineers
References
- ↑ Walker, Derek (2003-11-02). "Clublife". Summit. British Mountaineering Council (33). Retrieved 2011-02-14.
- ↑ "Robertson Lamb Hut". Wayfarers' Club. Retrieved 2011-02-14.