You can contact all of these organisations for details about their holdings if you've an interest in mountaineering history. The Alpine Club library is open to the public three days a week - and @mtn_heritage can be visited by appointment.

Lastly - Us! The Alpine Club collections cover much of the history of early alpine mountaineering. We hold a wide variety of material including mountain paintings, correspondence and diaries from prominent mountaineers and physical artefacts such as ice axes.

The Fell and Rock Climbing Club are a club based in the Lake District. Their archive contains over 2,500 books, journals, maps and guidebooks on climbing and rambling in the UK, including rare volumes such as Joseph Budworth’s 1792 ‘A Fortnight’s Ramble in the Lakes’.

The Climbers’ Club, founded in 1898, is a climbing and mountaineering club. In 1909 the Club produced the first British rock-climbing guidebook, to Lliwedd. The Club’s Archives hold the important history of the Club, including a copy of every guidebook edition since 1898.

The Mountain Heritage Trust cares for historic material on mountaineering and climbing in the UK. Notable collections include those of Joe Tasker, featuring slides from his expeditions, and Ken Wilson featuring images and written material from a lifetime in climbing publishing.

Today is #InternationalArchivesDay! To celebrate we're highlighting some of the great work done to protect and preserve the mountaineering heritage of Britain! So enjoy this thread highlighting some of our fellow organisations - thanks to @mtn_heritage for organising!

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange theme is #journeys 📷 🌍 So we've chosen this watercolour from the Victorian equivalent of a holiday photo album! Glacier near Colon by Henry George Willink comes from an album of sketches and paintings he made while on his honeymoon in 1880.

Brilliant addition to the library! Thank you @OtherEverests for this copy - looking forward to giving it a read before it goes on the shelf #librarianperks

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is #weather for 'A Weather Eye' at @McManusDundee We're sharing this picture of cloud rolling in over Lake Geneva (1880) by Henry George Willink.

We're also now in the blue place - in case you want to follow us over there!

And if you like today's pick - it's available as a greeting card from the club website! (The club calendar - which this year is paintings from the collection - is also available) alpine-club.org.uk/about-the…

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is flowers and floral arrangements for Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour @MK_Gallery Our pick - A Magnolia, by 19th century British botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker - taken from Hooker's 1855 book 'Illustrations of Himalayan Plants'.

It's that time of the year again when all the annual journals turn up! The SMC journal is always a good read - and this year we get a brief mention in @simrich99 article about climbing with Catherine Destivelle

Had a fascinating tour of @mtn_heritage as part of @thealpineclub Blencathra weekend. A wonderful collection that's well worth a visit if you're researching mountaineering history.

Putting away our Edward Compton exhibition in prep for What would Lucy say? - an exhibition about women, the Ladies Alpine Club and the Alpine Club.

If you've liked our @artukdotorg #onlineartexchange posts then you might enjoy this year's club calendar- 12 beautiful mountain paintings showcasing some of the best art in the club's collection (including one of the rarely seen Ruskins)

To be honest we struggle whenever the theme isn't 'mountains' 😃

Today's @artukdotorg #onlineartexchange is spooky art And we have ... nothing. So enjoy this tranquil painting of the Chateau de Chillon - haunted by François Bonivard, a 16thC monk who was imprisoned in the castle and inspired Byron to write a terrifying 392 line poem.

Having to use the big table for today's research requests - a jacket worn by Frank Smythe on #Everest in the 1930s and a tent from Everest 1953

First job after my holiday - flatten the posters for our next exhibition!