guide alpine

Guide, crystal hunter and chamois hunter, co-protagonist of the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786.

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

Austrian mountaineer and filmmaker

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

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

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