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Amir Mehdi

Amir Mehdi (sometimes spelled Amir Mahdi) was a Pakistani mountaineer known for climbing Nanga Parbat Mountain in 1953 as part of an Austrian expedition and K2 in 1954 with an Italian expedition.

Boscacci

Michele Boscacci (b. 1990), Italian ski mountaineer, son of Graziano Boscacci

Charles Parry

Charles Christopher Parry (1823–1890), British-American botanist and mountaineer

Conway Island

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, an English mountaineer and a pioneer of polar skiing during his crossing of Vestspitsbergen in 1896.

Cottesmore School

Doug Scott (teacher), mountaineer, first Briton to climb Mount Everest

Dušan Jelinčič

Jelinčič's writings are part of the tradition of Slovene mountaineer travelogues, which has been an important current within Slovene literature since the fin-de-siecle period.

Farquet

Damien Farquet (b. 1971), Swiss ski mountaineer and cross-country skier

Fasser

Alexander Fasser (b. 1975), Austrian ski mountaineer and mountain biker

Gaylene Preston

:Bruce Burgess, a 24-year-old, spastic since birth and Graeme Dingle, a well-known mountaineer, climb Mt Ruapehu together.

Gianfelice Rocca

A keen yachtsman and mountaineer, in 1970 Rocca took part in the expedition organized by the “Ragni di Lecco” mountaineering group to explore the Cerro Torre in Patagonia, regarded as one the world’s most inaccessible peaks.

H. O. Arnold-Forster

After Cox's death, he married Ruth Mallory, widow of George Mallory the mountaineer.

Helmut Ditsch

Around this time Helmut Ditsch became acquainted with and befriended the world-renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner in Meran, with whom he has since collaborated on numerous occasions.

Horibe

Michiko Horibe (堀部美智子, born 1974), Japanese ski mountaineer and telemark skier

Istebna

Jerzy Kukuczka, high altitude mountaineer, and the second person to climb all of the 8,000 metre peaks

Joginder Jaswant Singh

He is also a keen mountaineer who has trained under the late Tenzing Norgay at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling.

Johann Santner

Johann Santner (21 April, 1840 in Sankt Jakob in Defereggen - 21 May, 1912 in Bozen) was a Tyrolean mountaineer and first climber to reach the summit of the Santnerspitze, which was later given his name in his honor, of the Schlern on 2 July, 1880.

Karl Prusik

Karl Prusik (b. 19 May 1896 in Vienna; d. 8 May 1961 in Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien) (also spelled Prussik) was an Austrian mountaineer, with Czech origins, who is known as the inventor of the prusik knot.

Kilcornan

More recently Kilcornan is known as the birthplace of mountaineer Ger McDonnell who became the first Irishman to summit K2 in August 2008 but went missing along with 10 others on the decent in the worst single accident in the history of K2 Mountaineering,all were later confirmed dead.

Laurence Leamer

Leamer also briefly flirted with movie fame when his work on the life of famed mountaineer Willi Unsoeld was purchased by Robert Redford's production company to be turned into a film.

Laurie Skreslet

Laurie Skreslet (born October 25, 1949) is a mountaineer best known for his ascent of Mount Everest.

Lhakpa Tsamchoe

She is the first Tibetan woman ever to break into mainstream film; most famous for starring alongside Brad Pitt and David Thewlis in the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster Seven Years in Tibet, in which she played Pema Lhaki, a Tibetan tailor and wife of Austrian mountaineer, Peter Aufschnaiter.

Maraini

Fosco Maraini, Italian ethnologist, photographer, film-maker, mountaineer, writer and professor

Meije

The first ascent was eventually made from the southwest on 16 August 1877 by father and son Pierre Gaspard and their client Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau.

Miklosa

Matjaž Mikloša (b. 1975), Slovenian ski mountaineer and long-distance runner

Mount Hungabee

The peak was named in 1894 by Samuel Allen after the Stoney Indian (also known as Nakoda) word for "chieftain" as the mountain is higher than its neighbouring peaks.

Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium

When Mountaineer Field was dedicated on September 6, 1980, which also marked the first game for head coach Don Nehlen, fans were surprised when singer John Denver made an appearance and led the fans in the singing of his hit song "Take Me Home, Country Roads".

Owen Jones

Owen Glynne Jones (1867–1899), British rock-climber and mountaineer

Portrait Werner Herzog

In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.

Puncak Jaya

The now highest Carstensz Pyramid summit was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (of Seven Years in Tibet fame, and climber of the Eiger North Face) with three other expedition members – Philip Temple, Russell Kippax and Albertus Huizenga.

Raed Zidan

Raed Zidan is an accomplished mountaineer who has reached six of the Seven Summits including Vinson Massif in Antarctica, Mount Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua in Argentina.

Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu

Her husband, Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu is also a successful mountaineer, who has reached the summit of Mount Everest five times, besides climbing more than 38 other peaks.

Robert Irving

Robert Lock Graham Irving, 19th- and 20th-century schoolteacher, author and mountaineer

Ron Dart

Ronald Samuel Dart (born 1950, Toronto), BA (Lethbridge); DCS, MCS (Regent College), MA (UBC), PhD studies at McMaster University, is a university professor, author, and ACC mountaineer.

Ruttledge

Hugh Ruttledge (1884–1961), English civil servant and mountaineer

Ryste

Bodil Ryste (b. 1979), Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier

Samuel Brawand

As a mountaineer, he made a name for himself with the first ascent of the Mittellegigrat (the northeast ridge of the Eiger) on 10 September 1921, serving as guide for Maki Yūkō along with fellow guides Fritz Amatter and Fritz Steuri.

South Georgia Survey

The first expedition consisted of six men: Carse, deputy leader Kevin Walton, the surveyors Gordon Smillie and John Heaney, the geologist Alec Trendall, and the mountaineer Walter Roots.

Squinobal

Oreste Squinobal (b. 1943), Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer

The Lady of the Shroud

There Rupert tries to win the trust of the conservative mountaineer population by using his fortune to buy them modern arms (from a South American country that has unexpectedly found itself at peace) for their fight against Turkish invasion (the story was written shortly before the Balkan Wars).

Tom Patey

He climbed extensively in Scotland, (making the first winter traverse of the Cuillin ridge with Hamish MacInnes, David Crabbe and Brian Robertson in 1965), as well as achieving notable ascents in the Alps and the Karakoram including the first ascent of the Muztagh Tower (7273m) with John Hartog, Joe Brown and Ian McNaught-Davis in 1956 and Rakaposhi (7788m) in 1958 with Mike Banks.

Traudl

Traudl Maurer (born 1961), German ski mountaineer and long-distance runner

Tronvoll

Ove-Erik Tronvoll (b. 1972), Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier

Vaudan

Mary-Jérôme Vaudan (b. 1965), Swiss ski mountaineer mountain and runner

West Virginia Mountaineer

Natalie Tennant, who became the West Virginia secretary of state in January 2009, served as the first female Mountaineer in 1990.

Wetterhorn

The 24-year old English mountaineer William Penhall and his Meiringen guide Andreas Maurer were killed by an avalanche high up on the Wetterhorn on 3 August 1882.

Whillans

Don Whillans (1933–1985), British rock climber and mountaineer.

William Wasbrough Foster

Foster was an avid mountaineer, and was on the first expeditions to climb Mount Robson and Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan.


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