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  2. Charles Barrington (mountaineer) - Wikipedia

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    The Eiger. Charles Barrington (1834 – 20 April 1901), an Irishman from Fassaroe, Bray County Wicklow, was a merchant with little or no mountaineering experience who led the first team to successfully climb the Eiger on 11 August 1858.

  3. Osprey Packs - Wikipedia

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    Osprey Packs, Inc, commonly known as Osprey, is an American company that manufactures outdoor backpacks. It was founded in 1974 by Mike Pfotenhauer. It was founded in 1974 by Mike Pfotenhauer. It was purchased by Helen of Troy Limited in 2021 for $414.7 million.

  4. List of Accipitriformes species - Wikipedia

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    Osprey: Pandionidae: Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus, 1758) 9 Black-winged kite: Accipitridae: Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines, 1789) 10 Black-shouldered kite: Accipitridae: Elanus axillaris (Latham, 1801) 11 White-tailed kite: Accipitridae: Elanus leucurus (Vieillot, 1818) 12 Letter-winged kite: Accipitridae: Elanus scriptus Gould, 1842: 13 Pearl ...

  5. The White Spider - Wikipedia

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    The White Spider (1959; with chapters added in 1964; original title: Die Weisse Spinne) is a non-fiction book by Heinrich Harrer that describes the first successful ascent of the infamous north face (Nordwand) of the Eiger, a mountain in the Berner Oberland of the Swiss Alps, with sections devoted to the history of mountaineering in the area.

  6. Osprey Osprey I - Wikipedia

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    The Osprey GP2 Osprey, also known as the Air Skimmer, Sea Skimmer, or Pereira GP2 Osprey, was a single-seat flying boat designed by Eut Tileston under contract to George Pereira, a private builder. After the release of Pereira's amphibious Osprey II some years later, this aircraft became known retrospectively as the Osprey I. The original plane ...

  7. Great north faces of the Alps - Wikipedia

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    The north face of the Eiger. The six great north faces of the Alps are a group of vertical faces in the Swiss, French, and Italian Alps known in mountaineering for their difficulty, danger, and great height. The "Trilogy" is the three hardest of these north faces, being the Eiger, the Grandes Jorasses, and the Matterhorn.

  8. Accipitridae - Wikipedia

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    The osprey is usually placed in a separate family (Pandionidae), as is the secretary bird (Sagittariidae), and the New World vultures are also usually now regarded as a separate family or order. Karyotype data [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] indicate the accipitrids analysed are indeed a distinct monophyletic group.

  9. Pandion (bird) - Wikipedia

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    Pandion is a genus of fish-eating bird of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae.Most taxonomic treatments have regarded this genus as containing a single living species, separated into subspecies and found worldwide near water, while some treatments recognize two living species, splitting off the eastern osprey (Pandion (haliaetus) cristatus) from Australia and southeast ...

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