births
April 17, 1897
Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (died 1983)
Edouard Wyss-Dunant
Edouard Wyss-Dunant was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad. He published a number of treatises in his professional capacity and was the author of several mountaineering books. He is best known for his leadership of the Swiss Expedition to Everest of 1952.