Edward Whymper FRSE (27 April 1840 – 16 September 1911) was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of...

Matterhorn was a mountaineering expedition of the Matterhorn made by Edward Whymper, Lord Francis Douglas, Charles Hudson, Douglas Hadow, Michel Croz, and...

ascent of the Matterhorn was in 1865 from Zermatt by a party led by Edward Whymper, but during the descent, a sudden fall claimed the lives of four of...

conqueror, the English alpinist, explorer, writer and engraver Edward Whymper. In 1901, Whymper and his four guides (Joseph Bossoney, Christian Kaufmann, Christian...

Whymper may refer to: Charles Whymper [de] (1853–1941), English animal painter Edward Whymper (1840–1911), English mountaineer and explorer Frederick...

climber Edward Whymper reached the summit of Chimborazo. The route that Whymper took up the mountain is now known as the Whymper route. Edward Whymper, and...

of the Matterhorn and for his climbing partnership (as a guide) with Edward Whymper. Croz began his guiding career in 1859 when he was engaged by William...

ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 by a party led by English illustrator Edward Whymper, in which four of the party members fell to their deaths. By this point...

second-highest peak on the mountain (Pointe Whymper, 4,184 m; 13,727 ft) was first climbed by Edward Whymper, Christian Almer, Michel Croz and Franz Biner...

mountaineering between Alfred Wills's ascent of the Wetterhorn in 1854 and Edward Whymper's ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which many major peaks in...

Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin. Since 2004...

Ecological Reserve. Cayambe was first climbed by British adventurer Edward Whymper and his two Italian guides and companions Jean-Antoine Carrel and Louis...

A Whymper tent is a ridge tent of A-frame construction used for mountaineering which was designed by English mountaineer Edward Whymper (1840–1911) and...

Scrambles amongst the Alps, an illustration by Edward Whymper of the Notre Dame Cathedral gargoyle called La Stryge....

Hudson's stature – persuaded Edward Whymper that Hadow was a suitable companion for an attempt on the Matterhorn. Whymper later wrote: Before admitting...

area, including the story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party. The museum displays one of the two stones that Claude Nicollier...

a doubled rope had already been described in the late 1700s and by Edward Whymper around 1860, though neither case were used with what would be considered...

Matterhorn as a great challenge, and the arrival of John Tyndall and Edward Whymper in Breuil began competition for the first complete ascent, aided by...

29 June 1865 by Edward Whymper, Christian Almer and Franz Biner, a fortnight before the fateful first ascent of the Matterhorn. Whymper was unable to climb...

planned. One such group consisted of Douglas, Edward Whymper, and their guide Peter Taugwalder. Whymper had already made several unsuccessful attempts...

Winston had developed a keen interest in mountaineering, inspired by Edward Whymper's lantern-side lecture at the school. In fact, after his alpine climbs...

ascended most of the peaks and were eagerly sought as mountain guides. Edward Whymper reached the top of the Matterhorn in 1865 (after seven attempts), and...

film directed by Luis Trenker which recreates the struggle between Edward Whymper and Jean-Antoine Carrel for the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn...

film is about the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 by Edward Whymper. This British film is one of two 1938 Trenker remakes of Struggle for...

mountain was named in 1901 by its first climber, the English explorer Edward Whymper, after Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, the sixth Governor-General...

event in 1865 when an Englishman named Edward Whymper became the first to climb the Matterhorn. During Whymper's descent from the mountain, four of his...

bags and food, but water is available to be boiled. The Englishman Edward Whymper tried and failed twice to make the first ascent of Iliniza Sur. It was...

of the three men that survived the descent, along with his son and Edward Whymper. A native of Zermatt, Taugwalder also made the first ascent of Pollux...

Páez, Vicente Ramón and Eusebio Rodriguez. In 1880 British mountaineer Edward Whymper and the Italian guides Jean-Antoine Carrel and Louis Carrel made the...

Rockies. Part I: On a Collection of Middle Cambrian Fossils obtained by Edward Whymper, Esq., F.R.G.S., from Mount Stephen, British Columbia". Geological Magazine...