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Messner (Bressanone, 17 settembre 1944) è un alpinista, esploratore, scrittore e politico italiano.

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10/14/2020
6/22/2023
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Messner (Bressanone, 17 settembre 1944) è un alpinista, esploratore, scrittore e politico italiano.

6/22/2023

Dr. Roger Sherman Whitney After graduating from Yale in 1928, and Harvard Medical School in 1932, he came to Colorado Springs in the mid 1930s to attend to Tuberculosis patients. It was in his adopte...

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2/16/2009
4/30/2023
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Dr. Roger Sherman Whitney After graduating from Yale in 1928, and Harvard Medical School in 1932, he came to Colorado Springs in the mid 1930s to attend to Tuberculosis patients. It was in his adopte...

4/30/2023

Wilhelm Filchner MP (1877 - 1957)

Wilhelm Filchner (13 September 1877 – 7 May 1957) was a German army officer, scientist and explorer. He conducted several surveys and scientific investigations in China, Tibet and surrounding regions...

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3/9/2023
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Wilhelm Filchner MP (1877 - 1957)

Wilhelm Filchner (13 September 1877 – 7 May 1957) was a German army officer, scientist and explorer. He conducted several surveys and scientific investigations in China, Tibet and surrounding regions...

3/9/2023

Heinrich Harrer MP (1912 - 2006)

Heinrich Harrer (6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman,geographer, member of the Nazi party, oberscharführer in the Schutzstaffel, and author. He was a member of the four...

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4/22/2016
2/18/2023
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4/22/2016

Heinrich Harrer MP (1912 - 2006)

Heinrich Harrer (6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman,geographer, member of the Nazi party, oberscharführer in the Schutzstaffel, and author. He was a member of the four...

2/18/2023

Oscar Eckenstein (1859 - 1921)

Oscar Johannes Ludwig Eckenstein (9 September 1859 – 8 April 1921) was an English rock climber and mountaineer, and a pioneer in the sport of bouldering. Inventor of the modern crampon, he was an inn...

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11/1/2017
11/19/2022
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11/1/2017

Oscar Eckenstein (1859 - 1921)

Oscar Johannes Ludwig Eckenstein (9 September 1859 – 8 April 1921) was an English rock climber and mountaineer, and a pioneer in the sport of bouldering. Inventor of the modern crampon, he was an inn...

11/19/2022

Wanda Rutkiewicz MP (1943 - 1992)

Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943-1992) was a Polish computer engineer and mountain climber. She was the first woman to successfully summit K2. Wikipedia EN

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7/14/2019
10/12/2021
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Wanda Rutkiewicz MP (1943 - 1992)

Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943-1992) was a Polish computer engineer and mountain climber. She was the first woman to successfully summit K2. Wikipedia EN

10/12/2021

Hector Macpherson, Jr. (1918 - 2015)

Photo: Capt. Hector Macpherson Jr. receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross from Maj. Gen. Nathan Farragut Twining, summer 1944"Huck" Macpherson Jr. (September 18, 1918 – March 21, 2015) was an America...

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10/8/2021
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Hector Macpherson, Jr. (1918 - 2015)

Photo: Capt. Hector Macpherson Jr. receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross from Maj. Gen. Nathan Farragut Twining, summer 1944"Huck" Macpherson Jr. (September 18, 1918 – March 21, 2015) was an America...

10/8/2021

Guy Henry Bullock (1887 - 1956)

Henry Bullock (23 July 1887 – 12 April 1956) was a British diplomat who is best known for his participation in the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition. As expedition mountaineers, he a...

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8/21/2011
6/12/2021
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8/21/2011

Guy Henry Bullock (1887 - 1956)

Henry Bullock (23 July 1887 – 12 April 1956) was a British diplomat who is best known for his participation in the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition. As expedition mountaineers, he a...

6/12/2021

Prof. Joseph Nisbet LeConte (1870 - 1950)

"Little Joe"

Nisbet LeConte was a noted explorer of the Sierra Nevada. He was also a cartographer, a photographer and a professor of mechanical engineering.Joseph Nisbet LeConte was born in Oakland, California to J...

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9/22/2011
8/1/2020
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9/22/2011

Prof. Joseph Nisbet LeConte (1870 - 1950)

"Little Joe"

Nisbet LeConte was a noted explorer of the Sierra Nevada. He was also a cartographer, a photographer and a professor of mechanical engineering.Joseph Nisbet LeConte was born in Oakland, California to J...

8/1/2020

Barbara Washburn (1914 - 2014)

Washburn (November 10, 1914 – September 25, 2014) was an American mountaineer. She became the first woman to climb Denali (Mount McKinley) on June 6, 1947. She was the wife and climbing partner of moun...

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2/12/2014
2/23/2020
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Barbara Washburn (1914 - 2014)

Washburn (November 10, 1914 – September 25, 2014) was an American mountaineer. She became the first woman to climb Denali (Mount McKinley) on June 6, 1947. She was the wife and climbing partner of moun...

2/23/2020

Vince Lee (1938 - d.)

"Vince" Richards Lee (born 7 November 1938), now retired, has served as a Marine Corps officer, founder and chief instructor of his own mountaineering school, western residential architect, Andean expl...

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12/14/2019
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Vince Lee (1938 - d.)

"Vince" Richards Lee (born 7 November 1938), now retired, has served as a Marine Corps officer, founder and chief instructor of his own mountaineering school, western residential architect, Andean expl...

12/14/2019

Anne Lister MP (1791 - 1840)

Anne Lister was a Yorkshire landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller. Throughout her life she kept diaries which chronicled the details of her everyday life, including her lesbian relationships, h...

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2/19/2012
8/25/2019
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2/19/2012

Anne Lister MP (1791 - 1840)

Anne Lister was a Yorkshire landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller. Throughout her life she kept diaries which chronicled the details of her everyday life, including her lesbian relationships, h...

8/25/2019

John Percy Farrar (1857 - 1929)

John Percy Farrar DSO (25 December 1857 – 18 February 1929), also known as Percy Farrar and as J. P. Farrar, was an English soldier and mountaineer. He was President of the Alpine Club from 1917 to 191...

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3/20/2018
3/20/2018
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John Percy Farrar (1857 - 1929)

John Percy Farrar DSO (25 December 1857 – 18 February 1929), also known as Percy Farrar and as J. P. Farrar, was an English soldier and mountaineer. He was President of the Alpine Club from 1917 to 191...

3/20/2018

Dora Keen (1871 - 1963)

Keen (1871–1963) was an American traveler and Alpinist, also a social and educational worker.Early lifeShe was born in Philadelphia, a daughter of the surgeon William Williams Keen. After graduating fr...

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9/7/2010
12/12/2017
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Dora Keen (1871 - 1963)

Keen (1871–1963) was an American traveler and Alpinist, also a social and educational worker.Early lifeShe was born in Philadelphia, a daughter of the surgeon William Williams Keen. After graduating fr...

12/12/2017

wonderful person - DLAMember of the 1939 K2 expeditionMount Cromwell is a mountain located in the Sunwapta River Valley of Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada. Cromwell lies two km north of the ea...

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11/10/2007
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wonderful person - DLAMember of the 1939 K2 expeditionMount Cromwell is a mountain located in the Sunwapta River Valley of Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada. Cromwell lies two km north of the ea...

12/10/2017

Oliver Eaton Cromwell, Sr. MP (1847 - 1909)

With the exception of the few years lived in Washington, DC, he lived in NYC. Member of the Metropolitan Union, St. Nicholas, and the Metropolitan Club in Washington, DC. Chairman of the NY Yacht Club ...

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11/11/2007
12/9/2017
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Oliver Eaton Cromwell, Sr. MP (1847 - 1909)

With the exception of the few years lived in Washington, DC, he lived in NYC. Member of the Metropolitan Union, St. Nicholas, and the Metropolitan Club in Washington, DC. Chairman of the NY Yacht Club ...

12/9/2017

Jeremias Van Rensselaer (1796 - 1871)

Jeremias Van Rensselaer (1796–1871) was a well known physician who was the first American to climb Mont Blanc. He first married Charlotte Foster and later Anne F. Waddington.

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11/16/2017
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Jeremias Van Rensselaer (1796 - 1871)

Jeremias Van Rensselaer (1796–1871) was a well known physician who was the first American to climb Mont Blanc. He first married Charlotte Foster and later Anne F. Waddington.

11/16/2017

Thomas J. Dryer (1808 - 1879)

Jefferson Dryer (January 8, 1808 – March 30, 1879) was a newspaper publisher and politician in the Western United States. A member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature in 1857, Dryer is best remembere...

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Thomas J. Dryer (1808 - 1879)

Jefferson Dryer (January 8, 1808 – March 30, 1879) was a newspaper publisher and politician in the Western United States. A member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature in 1857, Dryer is best remembere...

11/14/2017

Stevens (June 9, 1842 – October 11, 1918) was an American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union army during the American Civi...

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8/15/2011
7/16/2017
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Stevens (June 9, 1842 – October 11, 1918) was an American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union army during the American Civi...

7/16/2017

Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866 - 1960)

Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866–1960) was a mountain climber, Eastern occultist and popular writer of adventure novels. Douglas Fawcett (1866-1960) was an English writer who knew Helena Petrovna Blavatsky...

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6/3/2011
6/30/2017
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Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866 - 1960)

Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866–1960) was a mountain climber, Eastern occultist and popular writer of adventure novels. Douglas Fawcett (1866-1960) was an English writer who knew Helena Petrovna Blavatsky...

6/30/2017