A centenary dinner will be held in London at the Army & Navy Club on Pall Mall on Saturday 1 Nov 2025. Drinks will be served from 18:30 and dinner will start at 19:30.The cost is £100 including four glasses of wine. There’s a choice of veggie and non-veggie menus plus an option for those with special dietary requests. Space is limited to 100 diners so book now to be sure of your place.

As part of our centenary year, the club will be holding a two-day ski mountaineering symposium at the Duke of Gordon Hotel at Kingussie (near Aviemore) over the weekend of 15th and 16th November 2025. It’s a chance to participate in an informative and inspirational weekend to guide your future ski touring as well as an opportunity to celebrate the club’s heritage and centenary.  More details can be found on the symposium event page of the website.

Our Club is run for members by members. We employ no staff, so we rely entirely on members who step forward to help run the Club. Many thanks to everyone who has expressed an interest in getting involved. We'd still like someone to volunteer for the Website Editor role. Find out more here: Volunteering opportunities

Ski touring can be a wonderfully affordable way to ski once you are skilled enough to do so as an equal member of a group. But the Club is aware that the costs of learning to ski tour can be prohibitive, with expensive kit hire and guiding fees. 

That's why we are expanding our training offer for novices, reducing costs to help more people develop the skills needed to participate in the Club's extensive touring programme.

Partnering with the UCPA, the Club is offering an exclusive course for members who are advanced piste skiers, have some off piste experience, and have no ski touring experience. The course runs from 14 to 20 March 2026 at Les Contamines, easily accessible by train from Geneva.

The course cost is £1045, inclusive of accommodation, instruction, all meals, equipment hire, and ski pass. For those who need it, the Club is also offering a subsidy of between £100 and £300, making the cost as low as £645 for 6.5 days of all-inclusive full-board skiing in the Alps. 

There are eight places available. Apply using this form by 1 November. 

We will let you know if your application has been successful and if you have been awarded a subsidy by 1 December. You will have until 1 December to join the Club (£30 for under-30s) and to pay a £100 deposit, or your place will be given to someone else. The full balance (£645-£945) will be due by 11 February.

The Eagle Ski Club is the UK's largest ski mountaineering Club. People with an existing interest in mountaineering - in the UK and overseas - and a strong foundational skiing ability on and off piste would be especially strong applicants. 

Use your application form to tell us about your mountaineering experience and ski touring aspirations. If you already have ski touring skills you may find that other opportunities on our touring programme are better suited to you, such as our Club meets. Joining information is here.

The costs of ski touring can be a barrier for people getting into the sport. The club wants to widen participation and devise ways to help members, particularly new members, to ski tour on a budget. As a way of kicking this off, club member Tom Lichfield has written a really useful guide, “Ski Touring on a Budget”, full of handy tips for saving money. And, if you want to add your money saving suggestions, we’ve set up a special ‘ski touring on a budget’ forum page to exchange ideas. 

The club's long history means that sadly many Eagles are no longer with us. The passing of former members is reported on the Member Announcements page (under Resources menu), with information about funerals and memorial events where appropriate. Recent deaths have included Janet O'Neill, Charles Knowles, Steve Thomas, Nigel Estlick (President 2004-6) and Don Henderson (Treasurer 2005-8). 

With the club programme now online, it’s also time to weigh up travel options. Many Eagle members are choosing to let the train take the strain. Not only is it better for the planet but it’s generally a more chilled and pleasant journey experience. We’ve prepared a special feature article looking at just how enjoyable and good value train travel can be. Click here to read the article.

This is an occasional award to celebrate outstanding personal contribution to ski-touring within the club. Jeremy Whitehead himself was an outstanding club leader who led at least one tour every year from the 1970s until 2019. The club’s touring committee has presented the 2024 award to Rob Greaves for the key role he has played, alongside others, in the foundation and success of the club’s Leader Development Programme. The club has also awarded honorary membership to Steve Wright, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the club in many roles, over 36 years of membership, especially his work developing and championing a climate care strategy within the club. 

To mark the start of the club’s centenary year, we have a special feature to kick off the season with four mountain guides discussing the big, defining issue of the current ski touring era – how climate and weather trends are shaping our sport and decision-making. Click here to read the article. 

Encouraging and supporting more ground-up, member-organised activities is one of our priorities. These activities can range from seeking ski touring companions at short notice to putting forward ideas for informal ski tours and non-skiing activities in the summer. To help support this, we've created a new member-to-member section on the website, which includes advice on Contacting Other Members, the Members Map, a page on organising member-to-member activities, a new Member Organised Activities forum, and advice on Creating your Club profile. 

As part of your preparations for going ski touring, have a read of our webpages on advice for tour participants and a summary of our key safety messages. 

Make full use of a varied selection of discounts from Mountaineering Scotland.