Peter Boardman

Peter Boardman

male, deceased (1982)
Peter Boardman (b.December 25,1950 - d.May 17, 1982) was a British climber, Everest summiteer, and author of several mountaineering books. Born in...
Anton Melik

Anton Melik

male, deceased (1966)
Anton Melik was a Slovene geographer. Melik was born in a village Črna vas ("Black Village"), south of Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary, (today S...
Geoffrey Winthrop Young

Geoffrey Winthrop Young

male, deceased (1958)
Geoffrey Winthrop Young D.Litt. (1876 – 1958) was an English climber and author of several notable books on mountaineering. He was also a poet of so...
Alison Hargreaves

Alison Hargreaves

female, deceased (1995)
Alison Hargreaves (February 17, 1963 - August 13, 1995) was a British female mountain climber who was considered by some in the early 1990s to be...
Charles Hudson

Charles Hudson

male, deceased (1865)
Charles Hudson was an Anglican chaplain and mountain climber from Skillington, Lincolnshire. Hudson was one of the most important climbers of the...
Hanna Reitsch

Hanna Reitsch

female, deceased (1979)
Hanna Reitsch was a famous German test pilot. Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia. She was the daughter of an ophthalmologist and was in...

Lucy Walker

female, 173 years old
Lucy Walker, a British mountaineer, was the first woman to climb the Matterhorn. Ms. Walker began her climbing rather modestly in 1858 when she was...
Melchior Anderegg

Melchior Anderegg

male
Melchior Anderegg was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascentionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden age of...
Slavko Avsenik

Slavko Avsenik

male, 80 years old
Slavko Avsenik (b. 1929) is a Slovenian composer and musician. Slavko Avsenik was born on November 26 1929 in Begunje near Bled, Slovenia. His...
Sibylle Baier

Sibylle Baier

female
Sibylle Baier is a German folk singer and actress whose musical abilities achieved belated recognition with the 2006 release of the album "Colour...