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Edward Whymper
male, deceased - Edward Whymper (April 27, 1840-September 16, 1911), was a British climber and explorer best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865....
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Charles Hudson
male, deceased - Charles Hudson was an Anglican chaplain and mountain climber from Skillington, Lincolnshire. Hudson was one of the most important climbers of the...
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Ulrich Inderbinen
male, deceased - Ulrich Inderbinen (December 3, 1900 - June 14, 2004) was a Swiss mountain guide famous for his longevity and love for mountain climbing. He had...
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Lucy Walker
female - 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...
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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...
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Annie Smith Peck
female, deceased - Annie Smith Peck (born 19 October, 1850 in Providence, Rhode Island; died 16 July, 1935 in New York, New York) was an American mountaineer. Peck...
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Junko Tabei
female - Junko Tabei (May, 23, born 1939) is a Japanese mountain-climbe
r, who became the first female to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 16, 1975....
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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...
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Albert F. Mummery
male, deceased - Albert Frederick Mummery (10 September 1855, Dover - August 24, 1895, Nanga Parbat), was a highly respected British mountaineer. His father was a...
