Mountaineer
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A mountaineer is anyone who climbs mountains, either for sport or exploration.Most mountaineers currently listed are those who can claim first ascent for a peak. You can help by adding other mountaineers.
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Person | Mount Everest |
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the...
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| Tenzing Norgay |
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Person | Mount Everest |
Tenzing Norgay GM (May 1914 – May 9, 1986), often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepal / Tibet mountaineer. Near his 39th birthday on May 29 1953, he and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first people known to have reached the summit of Mount...
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| Lino Lacedelli | Person | K2 |
Lino Lacedelli (born December 4, 1925) is an Italian mountaineer.
Lacedelli was born in Cortina d'Ampezzo (Province of Belluno).
Together with Achille Compagnoni, he was the first man to reach the summit of K2 on July 31, 1954. The expedition was...
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| Achille Compagnoni | Person | K2 |
Achille Compagnoni (September 26, 1914) is an Italian mountaineer. Together with Lino Lacedelli, he was the first man to reach the summit of K2 on July 31, 1954. The expedition was led by Ardito Desio. Compagnoni was born in Sant'Antonio Valfurva,...
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| Ardito Desio | Person |
Count Ardito Desio (April 18, 1897 – December 12, 2001) was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.
Ardito Desio was born April 18th 1897 in Palmanova (Udine). He attended the Middle Schools of Udine and Cividale and...
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| Walter Bonatti | Person | Gasherbrum IV |
Walter Bonatti (born June 22, 1930) is an Italian born climber who set new standards in post-war Alpine climbing.
Bonatti was born in Bergamo, Lombardy.
Famed for his climbing panache, he pioneered little known and technically difficult climbs...
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| Anderl Heckmair | Person |
The most experienced mountaineer in the group (Heckmair, Ludwig Vörg, Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek), Heckmair led the most difficult pitches in the ascent, aided by the extensive kit (including new 12-point crampons)
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| Myrtle Prater | Person | Mount Julius Caesar |
Myrtle Prater and her husband made the first recorded ascent of Mount Julius Caesar, which they named because of its prominance looming over Lake Italy.
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| Steve Roper | Person |
Steve Roper is a noted climber and historian of the Sierra Nevada in the United States. His books include
Roper, Steve
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| David R. Brower | Person | Mount Hopkins |
David Ross Brower (July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club Foundation, the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth ...
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| David Lim | Person |
David Lim is a Singapore mountaineer and motivational speaker who led the first Singapore Mount Everest Expedition in 1998. Between 1994 and 1998, he led and organised a team from the flat tropical island nation to the top of Everest. Sustaining an...
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| Khoo Swee Chiow | Person |
Khoo Swee Chiow (; born 1964 in Port Dickson, Malaysia) is a Singaporean adventurer, author and motivational speaker.
Khoo climbed Mount Everest in 1998 as a member of Singapore's first Mount Everest expedition. In 1999, he skied to the South Pole...
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| Charlie Fowler |
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Charlie Fowler (1954 - December 4 2006 (estimated)) was an American mountain climber, writer, and photographer. He was one of North America’s most experienced mountain climbers, and successfully climbed many of the world’s highest peaks. Along with...
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| Arthur Oliver Wheeler | Person |
Arthur Oliver Wheeler (May 1, 1860 - May 20, 1945) was born in Ireland and immigrated to Canada in 1876 at the age of 16. He became a land surveyor and surveyed large areas of western Canada, including photo-topographical surveys of the Selkirk...
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| Krzysztof Wielicki |
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Krzysztof Wielicki (born January 5, 1950 in Szklarka Przygodzicka, Poland) - Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. One of the most outstanding himalaists of the world. He is the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousander. On three of them:...
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| Karl Prusik | Person |
Dr. Karl Prusik (1896 - 1961) (also spelled Prussik) was an Austria mountaineer who is known as the inventor of the prusik knot. He died in May 1961 at the age of 65.
The benefit of the knot is that it when weighted, it grips the rope that it is...
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| Mark Inglis | Person |
Mark Joseph Inglis (ONZM, September 271959) is a mountaineer, researcher, winemaker and motivational speaker. He holds a degree in Human Biochemistry from Lincoln University, New Zealand, and has conducted research in Leukemia. He won a silver medal...
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| Byron Smith | Person |
Byron Smith (born in 1961 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian car salesman and motivational speaker. On May 21, 2000, Byron Smith claimed to have summited Mount Everest. Since then, many in the mountaineering community have publicly...
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| Gary Hemming | Person |
Gary Hemming (b. 1934, d. 1969) was a noted American mountaineer. Together with Royal Robbins he made the first ascent of the American Direct route on the Aiguille du Dru in Chamonix in 1962, and was widely known in France for his role as a rescuer...
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| Jake Meyer | Person |
Jake Meyer (born 20 January 1984) is the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest (aged 21 years 4 months) and the youngest male to complete the ‘'Seven Summits'’ – the highest mountains in each of the seven continents.
From Tetbury in...
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| Paul Pritchard | Person |
Paul Pritchard (born 1967 in Bolton, Lancashire) was one of the leading British climbers of the 1980s and 1990s. He started climbing at 16 in his native Lancashire, and in 1986 moved to Llanberis in North Wales, climbing extensively on the slate of...
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| Jim Wickwire | Person |
Jim Wickwire (born 1940) is an attorney in Seattle, Washington, most famous as the first American to reach the top of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, and then for surviving the night in the open just below the summit.
His first attempt on...
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| Charles Evans | Person |
Sir Robert Charles Evans M.D., DSc, (19 October 1918 – 5 December 1995), was a British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator.
Born in Liverpool, he was raised in Wales and became a fluent Welsh speaker. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford...
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| A. W. Andrews | Person |
Arthur Westlake Andrews (1868 – 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, and mountaineer.
He trained as a geographer (FRGS 1896) and became a teacher of geography and history in Southwark. In 1913 he published 'a text-book of geography',...
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| Arne Næss Jr. | Person |
Arne Næss, Jr. (December 8, 1937 – January 13, 2004) was a Norwegian mountaineer and businessman. Outside of Norway he may have been more known for being the former husband of Diana Ross. He is the father of 7 children, most notably singer...
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| Patrick Morrow | Person |
Patrick Allan Morrow, CM, (born October 18, 1952 in Invermere, British Columbia) is a Canadian photographer and mountain climber who was first person in the world to have climbed the highest peaks of all seven continents: Mount McKinley in North...
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| Lou Whittaker | Person |
Lou Whittaker (born in 1929) is a higher-altitude and glacier-travel guide.
Whittaker and his twin brother Jim were born and raised in Seattle.
Besides his worldwide climbing experience, he became the most experienced guide for climbing Mount...
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| Edward Whymper |
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Person | Matterhorn |
Edward Whymper (April 27, 1840–September 16, 1911), was a British illustrator, climber and explorer best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. On the descent, four members of the party were killed.
Whymper was born in London on...
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| Andreas Heckmair | Person |
Andreas Heckmair (known as Anderl) (born October 12, 1906, Munich, Germany. Died February 1, 2005, Oberstdorf, Germany) was one of the four men who first climbed the north face of the Eiger in 1938.
The most experienced mountaineer in the group ...
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