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Norsk Tindeklub | Club | Norway 🇳🇴


Quick Info

Type Club
Country Norway 🇳🇴
Founded 10th Apr 1908
Members recorded 7
Presidents recorded 4

Quick Info

Type Club
Country Norway 🇳🇴
Founded 10th Apr 1908
Members recorded 7
Presidents recorded 4
Also known as Norwegian Alpine Club, Norsk Tindeklubb and NTK. Founded 10th Apr 1908.

Norway's oldest mountaineering club, founded on 10 April 1908 at Frognerseteren in Oslo. It is a closed club whose applicants need a list of ascents and a recommendation, and women have been admitted since 1975. [1] [2] [3] [4]

References

[1] Norsk Tindeklub: VÃ¥r historie https://www.ntk.no/om-ntk/var-historie/

[2] Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Norsk_Tindeklub

[3] Wikipedia (no) https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Tindeklub

[4] UIAA https://www.theuiaa.org/?p=60514

Contributors
99 contributions since 10th October 2026.

Members

7 recorded climbers.

Founders

Climber Period Notes
Carl Wilhelm Rubenson from 1908

One of the founders on 10 April 1908. [1] [2]

References

[1] Norsk Tindeklub: VÃ¥r historie https://www.ntk.no/om-ntk/var-historie/

[2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Rubenson

Ferdinand Schjelderup from 1908

One of the founders on 10 April 1908. [1] [2]

References

[1] Norsk Tindeklub: VÃ¥r historie https://www.ntk.no/om-ntk/var-historie/

[2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Schjelderup

Presidents

Climber Period Notes
Ferdinand Schjelderup 1915–1916

Chairman (formann) 1915–16. [1] [2]

References

[1] Wikipedia (no): Norsk Tindeklub https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Tindeklub

[2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Schjelderup

Boye Schlytter 1928–1948

President (formann) 1928–48. [1] [2]

References

[1] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boye_Schlytter

[2] Wikipedia (no): Norsk Tindeklub https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Tindeklub

Stein P. Aasheim 1985–1987

Leader (formann) 1985–87, according to the club's leader list on Norwegian Wikipedia. This is a single source; no second source was found. [1]

References

[1] Wikipedia (no): Norsk Tindeklub https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Tindeklub

Ragnhild Amundsen 2008–2014

The club's first female leader, elected at the 2008 centenary, served until 2014. [1] [2] [3]

References

[1] Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Norsk_Tindeklub

[2] Wikipedia (no): Norsk Tindeklub https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Tindeklub

[3] UIAA https://www.theuiaa.org/?p=60514

Honorary Members

Climber Period Notes
Arne Randers Heen

"Arne Randers Heen var æresmedlem i Norsk Tindeklubb". This was despite earlier friction over the club's anti-professional rule, because he guided for pay. [1] [2]

References

[1] lokalhistoriewiki https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Arne_Randers_Heen

[2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Randers_Heen

William Cecil Slingsby

"He was an honorary member of Norsk Tindeklub". [1]

References

[1] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cecil_Slingsby

Members

Climber Period Notes
Ragnhild Amundsen from 1983

Joined in 1983, the fourth woman to join the club. The same article credits her with the first free ascent of the Rimmon route on the Troll Wall. [1]

References

[1] UIAA https://www.theuiaa.org/?p=60514