ASAC – Amsterdam
The Amsterdam Student Alpine Club is a student association with approximately 360 members. Within the ASAC, climbers participate at all levels and in many different locations. For example, the ASAC meets every Monday at the climbing gym, and in the spring and fall, you can regularly climb with the ASAC on real rock climbs in Belgium, Germany, or France. They also regularly organize drinks, dinners, and other activities, both athletic and social.
For more information: ASAC
ESAC – Eindhoven
The Eindhoven Student Alpine Club is one of the larger student sports clubs in Eindhoven. The ESAC offers its members everything they need for mountaineering: climbing activities, information, training, and equipment. Climbing activities cover the entire spectrum, from sport climbing in a climbing gym to rock climbing in the Belgian mountains to climbing four-thousanders in the Alps. There are also other activities such as training sessions, drinks, ski touring trips, hiking weekends, and much more!
For more information: ESAC
GSAC – Groningen
The Groninger Studenten Alpenclub (Groningen Student Alpine Club) is Groningen’s leading student climbing association, with approximately two hundred and fifty members and donors. The GSAC offers its members the opportunity to discover climbing in a safe, responsible, and fun way. In the fall, there are introductory weekends for new members. The GSAC also organizes climbing weekends throughout the spring and fall. A trip to Belgium, Germany, and/or France with nine people guarantees plenty of climbing fun and camaraderie. Climbing is also available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays throughout the year. And of course, there’s climbing in the summer too! During the summer months, GSAC members attend the alpine and/or sport climbing week. This was a brief overview of the GSAC. There are also drinks, lectures, and training evenings; there’s the Zig-Zag; T-shirts and fleeces; you can rent equipment and become a climbing instructor, and so on.
For more information: GSAC
WSAC Ibex – Wageningen
The Capra ibex, better known as the ibex, is an exceptionally skilled climber. The more inhospitable the terrain, the more at home it feels. It prefers to be among steep snowfields and sheer rock faces. The Wageningen Student Alpine Club Ibex is there for those who feel a connection with this natural climber. Do you want to explore and push your limits in the mountains, rocks, or the climbing gym? Do you enjoy long walks in the Veluwe region? Or perhaps you’re looking for something in between? Then there’s a club for you, and… that’s Ibex!
For more information: IBEX
LSAC – Leiden
The Leiden Student Alpine Club (LSAC) is one of the oldest student alpine clubs in the Netherlands. Founded in 1924 as a sub-association of LSV “Minerva,” the LSAC’s history can be found in various aspects of Dutch mountaineering, including the founding of the NSAC. After a brief period of inactivity, the LSAC has had a board since 2019. The LSAC climbs on Tuesdays at the HS climbing wall and boulders on Thursdays in one of the many halls in Leiden. 2024 will be the year the LSAC celebrates its 20th Lustrum (100th anniversary) and will be filled with symposia, expeditions, and of course, plenty of drinks!
For more information: LSAC
MaasSAC – Maastricht
MaasSAC is the student climbing association of Maastricht. We are there for everyone studying at Maastricht University or Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. MaasSAC focuses on sport climbing, bouldering, mountaineering, and related activities, such as training sessions, lectures, hiking, indoor climbing, championships, and more. In addition, MaasSAC organizes training courses in collaboration with its certified climbing instructors to give members more knowledge and skills in the ins and outs of mountain climbing. We offer every member the opportunity to eventually become a climbing instructor. Every MaasSAC member is free to climb 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
For more information: MaasSAC
NijSAC – Nijmegen
NijSAC stands for the Nijmegen Student Alpine Club and was founded in 1984. A number of Nijmegen students decided that Nijmegen could no longer lag behind other student cities where Student Alpine Clubs had been active for much longer. Since then, NijSAC has grown into an association with approximately 80 members and 20 donors. Both old and new climbers practice their hobby, climbing, within NijSAC.
NijSAC focuses primarily on sport climbing and, to a lesser extent, hiking and mountaineering. This is simply because the association has year-round access to the climbing wall at the sports center and the nearby climbing center. Climbing weekends are regularly organized in neighboring countries. Besides these climbing and hiking activities, NijSAC is, above all, a friendly association, regularly organizing members’ evenings in pubs in Nijmegen.
For more information: NijSAC
RSAC – Rotterdam
The RSAC is thé student sports association for skiers, climbers, boulderers and other mountain enthusiasts in Rotterdam. We climb and boulder together weekly and go on weekend trips to find real rock in Belgium. Want to find out more? Look around on our site, or join us on the wall!
For more information: RSAC
TilSAC – Tilburg
The Tilburg Student Alpine Club has been around since 1984. TilSAC consists of a group of students and graduates with one thing in common: a passion for climbing. TilSAC offers a wide variety of activities in the fields of indoor climbing, rock climbing, bouldering, and mountaineering. TilSAC offers you the opportunity to explore all these disciplines and learn more about them yourself. For example, TilSAC offers courses that teach you to climb independently. TilSAC has a large number of instructors, so even beginning climbers can get acquainted with rock climbing under expert guidance. Besides all the sporting activities, there’s also time for relaxation. Enjoying a (uniquely Belgian) beer and a barbecue are definitely among the regular activities at TilSAC!
For more information: TilSAC
TSAC – Twente, Enschede
On December 3, 1979, the Twente Student Alpine Club was founded. The TSAC is a very active club, organizing many activities from its home base in Enschede. Sport climbing, bouldering, ski touring, alpine climbing: it’s all possible! With the TSAC outdoor wall, the third highest in the Netherlands, and the new outdoor bouldering wall, the TSAC now has five walls. Due to the significant growth in membership in recent years, this number is being fully utilized.
For more information: TSAC
USAC – Utrecht
The Utrecht Student Alpine Club (Utrechtsche Studenten Alpen Club) offers club-based climbing on the highest peaks of the Alps, on the Meuse rocks in Belgium, and on the many climbing walls in the Netherlands. At USAC, you can learn to climb affordably and safely during your student years. USAC offers its members climbing evenings in the gym, climbing weekends, courses, an Alpine Week in the summer, and a Combination Week in the winter. They also organize many drinks and parties.
For more information: USAC
S.V.A.C. Yeti – Delft
Yeti is a climbing club for students. Yeti’s primary goal is to practice climbing and mountaineering together. To this end, Yeti organizes and coordinates activities in the Alps, on the rocks of Belgium, Germany, and France, and in climbing gyms.
A week is organized in the Alps both in summer and winter. Yeti members gather there to climb beautiful mountains together, via both ice and rock routes, to ski touring, to ski piste, and to climb waterfalls. Besides Alpine climbing, Yeti also participates in sport climbing. Each year, 10 to 15 climbing weekends are organized in the rocks of Belgium, Germany, and France. Besides these primary climbing activities, Yeti also offers a broad training framework, focused on safety, performance, and continuity. At Yeti, you can learn to climb both safely in climbing gyms and on the rocks. In other courses, you can improve your climbing techniques. Yeti is a sub-association of the Catholic Student Association Sanctus Virgilius.
For more information, please contact: Yeti
ZeeSAC – Den Helder
The ZeeSAC is the youngest SAC in the Netherlands and is made up of students from the Royal Netherlands Navy Institute (KIM). Although they are now at the beginning of what will hopefully be a glorious SAC, the ZeeSAC has already experienced several highlights. For example, several ZeeSAC members have climbed Mont Blanc, and several mountains in the Alps have already been climbed. All this hopefully guarantees many more fantastic climbs to come.
For more information: ZeeSAC
SAC alumni, not affiliated with the NSAC:
XSAC
The XSAC isn’t an officially affiliated SAC, but it’s made up of former SAC members who still enjoy heading to the mountains together. The XSAC is open to anyone who was a member of a Student Alpine Club (SAC) in the country. Members range in age from recent graduates to well into retirement, from 35 to 85. That might sound strange, but it’s actually quite enjoyable, because everyone shares the same passion for the mountains and has wonderful stories about climbs, exciting trips, or fun weekends of climbing.
For more information: XSAC