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Alpine Guides: Michel Croz, Andr Roch, Jacques Balmat, Melchior Anderegg, Gaston R Buffat, Andreas Heckmair, Christian Almer, Werner Munter

Alpine Guides: Michel Croz, Andr Roch, Jacques Balmat, Melchior Anderegg, Gaston R Buffat, Andreas Heckmair, Christian Almer, Werner Munter


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Chapters: Michel Croz, Andr Roch, Jacques Balmat, Melchior Anderegg, Gaston R buffat, Andreas Heckmair, Christian Almer, Werner Munter, Christian Klucker, Arturo Squinobal, Alexander Burgener, Oreste Squinobal, Matthias Zurbriggen, Lorenzo Squinobal, Ulrich Inderbinen, Mark Seaton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michel Auguste Croz (22 April 1830, Le Tour, Chamonix valley 14 July 1865, Matterhorn) was a French mountain guide and the first ascentionist of many mountains in the western Alps during the golden age of alpinism. He is chiefly remembered for his death on the first ascent of the Matterhorn and for his climbing partnership with Edward Whymper. Croz began his guiding career in 1859 when he was engaged by William Mathews for an ascent of Mont Blanc. As well as making the first ascent of some of the most significant unclimbed mountains in the Alps the Grande Casse, Monte Viso, the Barre des crins and the Aiguille d'Argenti re he also made the first traverse of many previously uncrossed cols, including the col des Ecrins, the col du S l and the col du Glacier Blanc in the Massif des crins (all in 1862 with Francis Fox Tuckett, Peter Perren and Bartolomm o Peyrotte). In 1863, he climbed the Grandes Rousses with William Mathews, Thomas George Bonney and his brother Jean-Baptiste Croz, and in 1864 he made the first traverse of the br che de la Meije and the first traverse of the col de la Pilatte (with Edward Whymper, Horace Walker, A. W. Moore and Saas-Fee guide Christian Almer). Of the latter expedition, Whymper was later to write, The Matterhorn. The fatal accident occurred on the sunny snow slopes at the top right of the mountain Following eight failed attempts on the Matterhorn starting from 1861, Whymper was recalled to London in ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=14345621


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155909622
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 86 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155909623
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Michel Croz, Andr Roch, Jacques Balmat, Melchior Anderegg, Gaston R Buffat, Andreas Heckmair, Christian Almer, Werner Munter
  • Width: 229 mm


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