The oldest hiking club outing footage?

I recently ran into this film clip showing an outing of the Contra Costa Hiking Club from the 1940s or 1950's. The Contra Costa Hiking Club, now the Contra Costa Hills Club, is located in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. After watching this, I began to wonder if any older footage of any other club outings existed:



The answer to that question is yes… Here’s a clip of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club from the late 1920s, by Jim Thompson:



Not knowing the exact date of the Thompson film, however, it’s very possible that this 1927 clip of a Mountaineers club outing on Mt. Robson in Canada might be the oldest club outing film (this is actually the first in a four-part series):





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The First Winter Ascent of Mt. Rainier on 1922 Newsreel

Check out this film from 1922 that documents the first ever winter ascent of Mt. Rainier by Jean and Jacques Landry, Jacques Bergues and newsreel cameraman Charles Perryman. It's also the first motion picture ever taken on the summit of Mount Rainier, and is the oldest known climbing or skiing film in the State of Washington.

The film come courtesy of The Mountaineers. In 2003, Charles Perryman's grandson, Steve Turner, contacted The Mountaineers about the film after reading about Perryman's climb in the Alpenglow Ski Mountaineering History Project. This led to an eight-year effort by Skoog to acquire the newsreel films. The project was completed in October 2011:










Jeff
Hiking in Glacier.com