The ''Alpine Club Guides'' (german: Alpenvereinsführer, commonly shortened to ''AV Führer'' or ''AVF'') are the standard series of Alpine guides that cover all the important mountain groups in the

Eastern Alps Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley up to the Splügen Pass at the Alpine divide and down the Liro River to Lake Como in the ...

. They are produced jointly by the

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(DAV),

Austrian Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ...

(ÖAV) and

South Tyrol Alpine Club The South Tyrol Alpine Club (german: Alpenverein Südtirol), abbreviated AVS, is an association of German and Ladin-speaking mountain climbers in South Tyrol, northern Italy. Founded in 1946, it is sub-divided into 32 sections and 58 local division ...

s (AVS). They have been published since 1950 by the firm of

Bergverlag Rother Bergverlag Rother is a German publisher with its headquarters in Oberhaching, Upper Bavaria. Since 1950 the company, that formerly went under the name of ''Bergverlag Rudolf Rother'', has published the Alpine Club Guides in cooperation with the Ge ...

in Munich, Germany. The AV guides contain all the routes – hiking trails, mountain hut approaches and summit climbs as well as ice and high mountain routes and ''

klettersteig A via ferrata (Italian language, Italian for "iron path", plural ''vie ferrate'' or in English ''via ferratas'') is a protected climbing route found in the Alps and certain other locations. The term "via ferrata" is used in most countries and ...

s'' in each mountain range. The descriptions are factual and dry, with few illustrations - rather unlike mountain books by e.g. Walter Pause – and despite introductory sections require general Alpine knowledge and experience. Examples are the ''AVF Allgäuer Alpen'' and the ''AVF Verwallgruppe''.The AV guides are often used as the basis for other publications and complement the

Alpine Club map Alpine Club maps (german: Alpenvereinskarten, often abbreviated to ''AV-Karten'' i.e. AV maps) are specially detailed maps for summer and winter mountain climbers (mountaineers, hikers and ski tourers). They are predominantly published at a scale o ...

s or other map series.

Available guides

* Allgäuer und

Ammergauer Alpen The Ammergau Alps (german: Ammergauer Alpen or ''Ammergebirge'') are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps in the states of Bavaria (Germany) and Tyrol (Austria). They cover an area of about 30 x 30 km and begin at the outer edge ...

''alpin'' (Dieter Seibert) *

Bayerische Voralpen The Bavarian Prealps (german: Bayerische Voralpen) are a mountain range within the Northern Limestone Alps in south Germany. They include the Bavarian Prealp region between the river Loisach to the west and the river Inn to the east; the range is ...

Ost (Marianne and Emmeram Zebhauser) *

Berchtesgadener Alpen The Berchtesgaden Alps (german: Berchtesgadener Alpen) are a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps, named after the market town of Berchtesgaden located in the centre. The central part belongs to the Berchtesgadener Land district of south ...

''alpin'' (Bernhard Kühnhauser) *

Bregenzerwald The Bregenz Forest (german: Bregenzerwald, ) is one of the main regions in the state of Vorarlberg (Austria). It overlaps, but is not coterminous with, the Bregenz Forest Mountains, which belong to a range of the Northern Limestone Alps, specific ...

- und

Lechquellengebirge The Lechquellen Mountains (german: Lechquellengebirge) or Lechquellen range is a small mountain group within the Northern Limestone Alps of the Eastern Alps. It lies entirely within the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and includes the upper reac ...

''alpin'' (Dieter Seibert) *

Dolomiten ''Dolomiten'' is an Italian local daily newspaper, based in Bozen/Bolzano. It is the oldest and most important German-language newspaper published in South Tyrol, a region where German is spoken by the majority of the inhabitants. The title takes ...

: Civettagruppe (Andreas Kubin) *

: Geisler- und Steviagruppe (Ernst Eugen Stiebritz) *

: Pelmo (Richard Goedeke) *

: Puez- und Peitlerkofelgruppe (Ernst Eugen Stiebritz) *

: Sella und Langkofel ''extrem'' (Richard Goedeke) *

: Sextener Dolomiten ''extrem'' (Richard Goedeke) * Eisenerzer Alpen ( Fritz Peterka) * Gesäuseberge /

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(Willi End) * Glockner- und Granatspitzgruppe (Willi End) *

Hochkönig The Hochkönig is a mountain group containing the highest mountain (Mount Hochkönig) in the Berchtesgaden Alps, Salzburgerland, Austria. The Berchtesgaden Alps form part of the Northern Limestone Alps. Location It lies to the west of the town ...

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) *

Kaisergebirge The Kaiser Mountains (german: Kaisergebirge, meaning ''Emperor Mountains'') are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps and Eastern Alps. Its main ridges – are the Zahmer Kaiser and south of it the Wilder Kaiser. The mountains are s ...

''alpin'' (Horst Höfler and Jan Piepenstock) *

''extrem'' (Pit Schubert) *

Karawanken The Karawanks or Karavankas or Karavanks ( sl, Karavanke; german: Karawanken, ) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps on the border between Slovenia to the south and Austria to the north. With a total length of in an east–west dir ...

(Hans M. Tuschar) *

Karnischer Hauptkamm The Carnic Alps ( it, Alpi Carniche; german: Karnische Alpen; sl, Karnijske Alpe; fur, Alps Cjargnelis) are a range of the Southern Limestone Alps in Austria and northeastern Italy. They are within Austrian East Tyrol and Carinthia, and Itali ...

(Peter Holl) *

Karwendel The Karwendel is the largest mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps. The major part belongs to the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, while the adjacent area in the north is part of Bavaria, Germany. Four mountain chain, chain ...

''alpin'' (Walter Klier) * Lechtaler Alpen alpin (Dieter Seibert) *

Mieminger Kette The Mieming(er) Range, Mieminger Chain (german: Mieminger Kette) or Mieminger Mountains (''Mieminger Gebirge''), is a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps in the Eastern Alps. It is located entirely in Austria within the state of Tyro ...

(Rudolf Wutscher) *

Niedere Tauern The Lower TauernThe New Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. 1, 2003, p. 86. or Niedere Tauern () are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps, in the Austrian states of Salzburg and Styria. For the etymology of the name, see Tauern. Geography ...

(Peter Holl) * Ötztaler Alpen (Walter Klier) * Ortleralpen (Peter Holl) *

Samnaungruppe The Samnaun Alps are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps, named after the Swiss municipality of Samnaun. They are located at the border of the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Graubünden canton of Switzerland. The Samnaun Alps are sepa ...

(Paul Werner and Ludwig Thoma) *

Silvretta The Silvretta Alps are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps shared by Tirol, Vorarlberg (both in Austria) and Graubünden ( Switzerland). The Austrian states of Tirol and Vorarlberg are connected by a pass road ( Silvretta Hochalpenst ...

''alpin'' (Günter Flaig) * Stubaier Alpen ''alpin'' (Walter Klier) *

Tennengebirge The Tennen Mountains (german: Tennengebirge) is a small, but rugged, mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, which lies in front of the Eastern Alps for its entire length. It is a very heavily karstified high plateau, about 60 km² i ...

(Albert Precht) *

Totes Gebirge The Totes Gebirge is a group of mountains in Austria, part of the Northern Limestone Alps, lying between the Salzkammergut and the Ennstaler Alpen. The name ''Totes Gebirge'' is derived from the German words ''tot'' meaning "dead", referring to ...

(Gisbert Rabeder) * Venedigergruppe (Willi End and Hubert Peterka) * Verwallgruppe (Peter Pindur, Roland Luzian and Andreas Weiskopf) *

Wetterstein The Wetterstein mountains (german: Wettersteingebirge), colloquially called Wetterstein, is a mountain group in the Northern Limestone Alps within the Eastern Alps. It is a comparatively compact range located between Garmisch-Partenkirc ...

(Stefan Beulke) * Zillertaler Alpen (Walter Klier)

Out-of-print guides

* Ankogel- and Goldberggruppe (Liselotte Buchenauer und Peter Holl, 1986) * Brentagruppe (Heinz Steinkötter, 1988) * Chiemgauer Alpen (Marianne and Helmuth Zebhauser, 1988) * Dachstein Ost (Willi End, 1980) * Dachstein West (Willi End, 1980) * Dolomiten: Cristallogruppe (Jürgen and Angelika Schmidt, 1981) * Dolomiten: Marmolada (Heinz Mariacher, 1983) * Dolomiten: Rosengartengruppe (Heinz Mariacher, 1988) * Dolomiten: Schiaragruppe (Richard Goedeke, 1981) * Hochschwab (Günter and Luise Auferbauer, 1990) * Kitzbüheler Alpen (Georg Bleier and Kurt Kettner, 1984) * Loferer und Leoganger Steinberge (Nikolaus Stockklauser and Adi Stocker, 1991) * Lienzer Dolomiten (Hubert Peterka and Willi End, 1984) * Rätikon (Günther Flaig, 1974) * Rieserfernergruppe (Werner Beikircher, 1983) * Rofangebirge (Rudolf Röder, Ernst Schmid and Rudger v. Werden, 1983) * Schobergruppe (Walter Mair, 1979) * Tannheimer Berge (Marcus Lutz, 1992)

External links

German Alpine Club

Austrian Alpine Club

South Tyrol Alpine Club

Bergverlag Rother (publishers), Munich

Swiss Alpine Club
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