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Albert F. Mummery

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in 1895 proved ill-fated; Mummery and both Gurkhas died in an avalanche whilst reconnoitering the mountain's Rakhiot Face. The first man to summit on Nanga Parbat, the legendary Austrian mountaineer
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It has frequently been noticed that all mountains appear doomed to pass through the three stages: An inaccessible peak - The most difficult ascent in the Alps - An easy day for a lady.
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while reconnoitering the Rakhiot Face. Their bodies were never found. The story of this disastrous expedition is told in J. Norman Collie's book
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he was part of the movement which revolutionized alpinism by the practice of guideless climbing. He invented the
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Mummery left behind him a legacy of some of the most well-regarded routes in the Alps, and also, in his book
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In 1880, Mummery and Burgener were repelled while trying to make the first ascent of the much-coveted
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Mummery is best remembered for his pioneering efforts in mountaineering. Initially, he climbed with
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are also the first men in recorded history to have attempted to summit one of the Himalayan
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Arnette, Alan. "Bodies of Missing Climbers found on Nanga Parbat". Outsideonline.com.
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In 1895, Collie, Hastings and Mummery were the first climbers to attempt the
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Albert Frederick Mummery, My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
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Peter H. Hansen, ‘Mummery, Albert Frederick (1855–1895)’,
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in the Canadian Rockies after his climbing companion.
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Index


Dover
England
Nanga Parbat
British India
Mountaineer

Dover
Kent
England
Nanga Parbat
Alps
J. Norman Collie
Geoffrey Hastings
Gurkhas
eight-thousanders
Nanga Parbat
Hermann Buhl
Dover
economics
J. A. Hobson
mountain guides
William Cecil Slingsby
Geoffrey Hastings
J. Norman Collie
Mummery tent
mountaineering
first ascents
Aiguille du Grépon
Täschhorn

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