Early life Ludwig was born into a family of modest means in Innsbruck. But the event turned his into a mountaineer’s life. He was particularly innovative in applying Alpine style to Himalayan climbing.
Apr 27 Edward Whymper, English mountaineer, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865), born in London (d. 1911) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky May 7 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Russian composer of the late-Romantic period (1812 Overture, Swan Lake), born in Votkinsk, Russia (d. 1893)
Whymper, Edward (1840–1911), mountaineer and wood-engraver, was born on 27 April 1840 at Lambeth Terrace, Kennington Road, London, the second of the eleven children of Josiah Wood Whymper (1813–1903), wood-engraver, and his first wife, Elizabeth Whitworth Claridge (1819–1859). Engineer Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario annealed me for the cold. Offering a large variety of RV replacement decals from a wide range of trailer manufacturers.
Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin on 1 November 1880 as the youngest of five children in a clergyman's family. Send feedback.
Infobox Lukas Furtenbach: Lukas Furtenbach is a father of two, geographer, mountaineer, private concierge, adventurer, cliff skier, organizer, operator and leader of adventure travel and expeditions to eight-thousander, a creative problem solver, out-of-the-box thinker, perfectionist and founder of Furtenbach Adventures.
Joe Brown obituary ... was a pipe-fitter from Stockport whose solid and knowledgable company underpinned the first phase of Brown’s pioneering on rock. Ben Clark (born 1979) of Clarksville, Tennessee, is a mountaineer and commercial filmmaker.Clark is married to Mary Anne Potts and has a son, Charlie Clark and a daughter, Scarlett Clark. He was particularly innovative in applying Alpine style to Himalayan climbing.
Most of his family members live in Clarksville, Tennessee including his mother and father, Anne and Jerry Clark, Jonathan Clark, his brother, and his two nieces Maggie and Molly Clark. B. AUDEN (1903-1991) BORN IN YORK, England, on 14 December 1903, John Bicknel Auden graduated from Cambridge University. Biography. "My first Mountaineer event" Salmon Bake at Pioneer Gravel Pit, Steilacoom, Octo ber 13, 1946. Innsbruck Innsbrook}} Innsbruck (; ) is the capital city of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria.It is in the Inn valley, at its junction with the Wipp valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass some 30 km to the south. Born in Sconser in 1856, Mackenzie was a keen explorer as a boy, famously climbing Sgùrr nan Gillean at the age of ten. After the death of his mother, he spent years in an orphanage. He joined the Geological Survey as Assistant Superintendent in November l')26, being the last European to be appointed to the permanent cadre of Survey. In the 1930s, as a sensitive (and not very healthy) teenager, he began to climb the Austrian Alps. Born Namgyal Wangdi in 1914, Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali Indian Sherpa mountaineer who reached the Everest summit just behind Sir Edmund Hillary. Buhl was born in Innsbruck, the youngest of four children. Extract. Edith Goodman Within two years, I had climbed the six major peaks and others
Dr J. A born mountain lover, at 19 years, Tenzing’s charming smile won him a spot in the 1935 Everest reconnaissance expedition under the leadership of Eric Shipton.