Edward Whymper, British mountaineer mb-code 1619044 View of Gresham Street

View of Gresham Street

Plate 5 from Memoires pour server a l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce

'The Interior of the Hut of a Mandan Chief'

published by William Miller

Edward Whymper, British mountaineer mb-code 1619044 View of Gresham StreetEdward Whymper, British mountaineer, 1865 (1956). Whymper is best known for his involvement in the first ascent of the Matterhorn, accomplished in 1865. Whymper reached the summit with Charles Hudson, Lord Francis Douglas, Douglas Hadow, accompanied by guides Michel Croz and the two Peter Taugwalders (father and son). Hadow, Croz, Hudson and Douglas were killed in a fall on the descent. He later went on to travel and climb in Greenland, South America