biografie

A Sherpa mountaineer, he reached the summit of Everest with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953.

French mountaineer, mountain guide, writer, photographer and filmmaker, the first person to climb all six of the great north faces of the Alps.

As parish priest of Alagna Valsesia, he reached the Signalkuppe – now known as Punta Gnifetti – on 9 August 1842.

Born in Bologna in 1888, Ottorino Mezzalama is regarded as the father of Italian ski mountaineering: thanks to him, the exploration of slopes and valleys also gained recognition, without this necessarily having to be geared towards the conquest of a summit.

La vita dell'Abbé Chanoux è uno straordinario esempio di generosità e di amore per tutto il creato. Nato a [[Champorcher]] il 3 aprile 1828, fin da giovanissimo coltivò il desiderio di diventare sacerdote. Dal 1860 si occupò della reggenza dell'Ospizio del Piccolo San Bernardo e vi restò fino alla fine dei suoi giorni, nel 1909.

Sacerdote di Saint-Vincent, scopritore della sorgente minerale del paese il 20 luglio 1770.

Austrian mountaineer and filmmaker

A Savoyard doctor and naturalist, who, together with Jacques Balmat, was one of the protagonists of the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786.

A British explorer and officer, he led the 1903–1904 expedition to Tibet.

A Chamonix mountain guide who was a climbing partner of the British mountaineer James Eccles for around forty years.

Mountaineer and pioneer of Italian ski mountaineering.

A mountaineer from Verrès, he opened over fifty new routes between 1926 and 1933.

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

Born in Valfurva on 26 September 1914, where he resided during his childhood years and his long period of military service where he excelled in Nordic skiing.

An engineer and mountaineer from Turin, a founding member of the Turin Ski Club and the Italian Academic Alpine Club.

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

Geneva-born scientist and naturalist, who at the end of the 18th century played a decisive role in the birth of modern mountaineering and especially in the conquest of Mont Blanc. He was born in 1740 in Conches, near Geneva, to a family originally from...

As the dates of his life on earth bear witness, he was a man “from another era”, even in his relationship with the mountains. Born into a distinguished and wealthy family (he was the nephew of Quintino Sella), his grandfather was his first mentor in mountaineering: it was he who, at the age of thirteen, introduced him to the Matterhorn from avantage point in the Biella Alps.

British surveyor and cartographer, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.

On 12 April 1856, William Martin Conway was born in Rochester, a British explorer and mountaineer known for a number of notable ascents in the Alps, Andes and Karakorum.