Biographies – alpinisti and Switzerland

A Valais-born mountain guide who grew up in Macugnaga, the first person to climb Aconcagua in 1897.

A mountain guide from Grindelwald, who led the first ascent of the Eiger in 1858.

Geologist and mountaineer, leader of the 1930 international expedition to Kangchenjunga and the 1934 expedition to the Karakorum.