The first great 19th century mountaineers
Hans Dülfer
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Hans Dülfer (Barmen 23/5/1892; Arras 15/6/1915)
About this unlucky mountaineer (killed in the war) they said: «We should be grateful to Dülfer for so much technical progress: he was the forerunner and the propagator»
Paul Preuss
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Paul Preuss (Altaussee 19/8/1886; Vienna 3/10/1913)
Named “Lone Ranger”, he fell from the Mandikogel Northern Arête, in the Austrian Alps during a fist solo ascent of VI.
He is considered the Spiritual Father of Free Climbing.
Mallory (primo da sinistra in basso) con Irvine e altri
Monte Everest, 1924 dal Web
Monte Everest, 1924 dal Web
George Leigh Mallory (Nobberley 18/6/1886; Everest 8/6/1924)
Mallory belonged to the elite circle of the british mountaineers coming from the Universities of Oxford, Eton, and Cambridge, that year after year led difficult ventures in the Alps.
He was a teacher beloved by his students.
He participated in three Campaigns to climb the Everest.
In 1924 he died there.
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