Chantal Mauduit

Chantal Mauduit

female, deceased (1998)
Chantal Mauduit was a noted female French alpinist. Born in 1964, she started climbing at the age of 15 and after several difficult routes in the...

Alan Rouse

male, deceased (1986)
Alan Paul Rouse (b.December 19, 1951 - d.August 10, 1986) was the first British climber to reach the summit of the second highest mountain in the...

Albert F. Mummery

male, deceased (1895)
Albert Frederick Mummery (10 September 1855, Dover - August 24, 1895, Nanga Parbat), was a highly respected British mountaineer. His father was a...
Kevin Thaw

Kevin Thaw

male, 42 years old
Kevin Thaw British alpinist - rock climber - mountaineer. Titled in several publications as the UK’s best all round climber, member of The North Fa...
Colin Kirkus

Colin Kirkus

male, deceased (1942)
Colin Kirkus, was one of the most influential climbers Britain has ever produced. Jack Longland described the greatest rock face in Wales, Clogwyn...
Meta Brevoort

Meta Brevoort

female
Meta Brevoort, an American mountain climber, spent her early years in a Paris convent school. She made a number of important ascents in the Alps in...
Matthias Zurbriggen

Matthias Zurbriggen

male, deceased (1917)
Matthias Zurbriggen (1856 in Saas-Fee, Switzerland - 1917 in Geneva) was one of the great nineteenth century Alpinists and mountain guides. He...
Ignaz Venetz

Ignaz Venetz

male, deceased (1859)
Ignaz Venetz was a Swiss engineer, naturalist, and glaciologist. He was one of the first scientists to recognize glaciers as a major force in...
Aripert II

Aripert II

male, deceased (712)
Aripert II (also spelled "Aribert") was the king of the Lombards from 701 to 712. Duke of Turin and son of King Raginpert, and thus a scion of the...

Jean-André Deluc

male, deceased (1817)
Jean-André Deluc was a Swiss geologist and meteorologist. He was born at Geneva, descended from a family which had emigrated from Lucca and s...