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3 unusual facts about William Edward Hall


Lyskamm

The eastern and higher of the two peaks is 4,527 m, and was first ascended in 1861 from the Lysjoch up the east ridge by a 14-man team (eight Englishmen and six Swiss guides) led by J. F. Hardy and including William Edward Hall.

W. E. Hall (1870) "The fatal accident on the Lyskamm", Alpine Journal, 5: 23–32

William Edward Hall

Hall was the only child of William Hall, a doctor and descendant of a junior branch of the "Halls of Dunglass", and of Charlotte née Cotton.



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