The Eagle Ski Club

The Eagle Ski Club is the UK's largest and most active ski touring and ski mountaineering club, with over 1100 members. It organises up to 50 ski trips a year, ranging from hotel and chalet-based day tours to ski expeditions in the Arctic and the Greater Ranges. Some are led by members and others by professional guides. The tours vary in standard, but for most of them you should be fit and at least a good intermediate skier.

Some trips are offered expressly for instruction purposes such as the Off Piste Ski weeks which concentrate on ski technique. The Introduction to Ski Touring and Advanced Alpine Skills courses offer IFMGA guide led instruction in ski touring and mountaineering techniques, and general mountain skills such as avalanche awareness and navigation, glacier travel and wilderness first aid.

There is also a programme of UK events, including ski weekends in Scotland, walking and climbing weekends throughout the UK, and a slide show. These events provide an excellent opportunity to meet other ski-tourers and plan future trips.

For more information see

Membership Benefits and How to Join

About ski-touring and ski-mountaineering

News

New Eagle Ski Club communication system

Submitted by sgjohnston on 19 April 2012 - 7:42pm

This message is being sent automatically to all registered users of the Eagle Ski Club website, to introduce a new means of communicating with club members.

When we first started the project to create the new Eagle Ski Club web site, one of the objectives was to also replace the club's email distribution list, Eaglenet. Eaglenet was launched in 2000, at the Eagle Ski Club's 75th birthday celebrations in Maloja. Eaglenet has served the club well over the years, but is a little inflexible in how the email is distributed, and is harder to maintain.

We are now at a stage where we can transition from Eaglenet to using only the web site. 

2012 Spring Circular Available

Submitted by JohnBarnard on 28 February 2012 - 10:19pm

The Spring Circular for 2012 is now available to view on the website under Info | Circulars

Paper copies will be posted this week to those who have not opted out of receiving them.

ESC Summer Slide Show 2012

Submitted by dphelan on 5 February 2012 - 8:54pm

Wednesday 20th June at the Alpine Club - Dave Wynne-Jones will present "Mongolia: Exploring the Tavn Bogd on Ski" - an illustrated account of the Spring 2011 ESC ski-mountaineering expedition to the highest summits of the Mongolian Altai. Topics will include holy summits; eagle hunters and the dangers of high altitude cooking.

All members and their guests are welcome to attend. A buffet supper at 6.30pm will be followed by the slide show at 7.30pm, and there will be a cash bar. Cost is £10.