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The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
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Eiger
Mountain in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland
The Eiger is a 3,967-metre (13,015 ft) mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. It is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends across the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bernese Alps
Part of the Alps mountain range in Switzerland
The Bernese Alps are a mountain range of the Alps located in western Switzerland. Although the name suggests that they are located in the Berner Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are in the adjacent cantons of Valais, Fribourg and Vaud, the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Charles Barrington (mountaineer)
Irish mountain climber (1834–1901)
Charles Barrington, an Irishman from Fassaroe, Bray County Wicklow, was a merchant with little or no mountaineering experience who led the first team to successfully climb the Eiger on 11 August 1858. Heinrich Harrer, in his book about the Eiger north face – The White Spider…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Christian Almer
19th-century Swiss mountaineer
Christian Almer was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascensionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alpinism. Almer was born and died in Grindelwald, Canton of Bern.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Peter Bohren
19th-century Swiss mountaineer
Peter Bohren was a Swiss mountain guide from Grindelwald.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)