Mountaineering

NUIG Mountaineering Club is one of NUI Galways largest club. We hike and climb around Connemara every week.   Membership is open to all members of NUI, Galway; undergraduates, postgraduates, staff and alumni. Every year we have a large number of international students. Please see our website : www.nuigmc.com for more info or check out our  forum or find us on Facebook!

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We hike every Sunday in the mountains around the west of Ireland. The bus leaves the Quad at 9.30 sharp.  
Visit our website for full details on time & place: www.nuigmc.com

History

NUIGMC has been in existence since 1970, which makes it one of the oldest mountaineering clubs in Ireland (a.k.a UCGMC until 1998). The club is one of the most popular in the college, and is becoming even more so, growing from 200 members in 1999/2000 to just under 1000 new members in 2005/06. Membership is open to all members of NUI, Galway; undergraduates, postgraduates and staff. This variety of membership gives the Club an interesting social mixture and a wide-ranging appeal. Everybody has a different idea of what they want from the mountains and the Club itself. The club simply aspires to enable members to enjoy the mountains with all types of walkers and climbers, while the more experienced help the newer members to savor new heights and views.

Intervarsities

Every year the club sends a team to climbing Intervarsities. The team consists of beginners, intermediate and advanced climbers. Skills such as bouldering and lead climbing are tested