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The Rucksack Club | Club | United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Also known as Rucksack Club.
Founded 1902.

A Manchester mountaineering and hill-walking club founded in 1902, whose members pioneered gritstone climbing, opened the first climbing hut in the British Isles in 1912 and helped found mountain rescue in Britain. Women have been admitted since 1990.

Sources: Wikipedia: The Rucksack Club, Rucksack Club: Club history, A Short History of the Rucksack Club 1902–1939, Appendix I

Contributors
50 contributions since 10th October 2026.

Members

4 recorded climbers.

Presidents

Climber Period Notes
Fred Pigott 1938–1939

Listed as Alfred S. Pigott. Source: A Short History of the Rucksack Club 1902–1939, Appendix I

Secretaries

Climber Period Notes
Morley Wood 1922–1930

Joint Honorary Secretary with Arthur E. Burns. Source: A Short History of the Rucksack Club 1902–1939, Appendix I

Members

Climber Period Notes
Fred Pigott from 1919

Joined in 1919; on the committee from 1921 to 1971 (Wikipedia). Source: A Short History of the Rucksack Club 1902–1939, Appendix I

Chris Brasher

Listed among notable members. Source: Wikipedia: The Rucksack Club

Ernest A. Baker

Listed among notable members. Source: Wikipedia: The Rucksack Club

Morley Wood

'Morley Wood had joined the Club before the war.' Source: A Short History of the Rucksack Club 1902–1939, Appendix I