Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (born 1828)

Melchior Anderegg

Swiss mountain guide

Melchior Anderegg, from Zaun, Meiringen, 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. His clients were mostly British, the most famous of whom was Leslie Stephen, the writer,…