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The grave of William Inglis Clark, Liberton Cemetery, Edinburgh. William Inglis Clark FRSE (4 June 1855 – 21 December 1932) was a Scottish pharmaceutical chemist. He is also remembered as a keen amateur mountaineer.
Richard Bass (1929–2015) US, businessman and amateur mountaineer, first to complete the Seven Summits (1985) Robert Hicks Bates (1911–2007) US, first ascent of Mount Lucania (1937), part of US attempts on K2 in 1938 and 1953; Mark Beaufoy (1764–1827) UK, fourth ascent Mont Blanc (1787)
Mountaineer, rock climber Marcel Rémy (6 February 1923 – 10 July 2022) was a Swiss amateur mountaineer and rock climber . [ 1 ] He was well known for his achievements in rock climbing.
Dyhrenfurth had emigrated from Switzerland to the United States in 1937, shortly before World War II, and he was, like his father Gunther Dyhrenfurth, an amateur mountaineer. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] From the time in 1952 when he had been the official photographer on the Swiss Mount Everest expedition he had held an ambition to lead his own expedition up ...
Frederick Hastings Chapin (5 September 1852 – 25 January 1900) was an American businessman, mountaineer, photographer, amateur archaeologist and author. He is best known for his exploration of mesas and ancient Pueblo ruins found in the Mesa Verde area of Colorado .
Wedgwood was an amateur mountaineer, and travelled to South America and to Canada. [5] In 1905 he sailed from Southampton to Buenos Aires. [6] While in Argentina with the Swiss guide Hans Kaufmann, he suffered frostbite on Aconcagua. [5]
He was a keen amateur mountaineer and one of the first honorary members of the Scottish Mountaineering Club. He is known to have climbed with his friend, the artist Colin Bent Phillip, and the chemist, William Inglis Clark. [4] He died in St Andrews on 19 November 1897.
In 1978, the Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner was the first person to reach six of the Seven Summits (1971 Puncak Jaya, 1974 Aconcagua, 1976 Mount McKinley (now Denali), 1978 Kilimanjaro, 1978 Mount Everest). For Messner, Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya) was the highest peak in Australia (Messner list), but in 1983, he climbed Mount ...