Edward Whymper, British mountaineer Size:M: 50 x 40cm the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and

the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (formerly the Duke of Edinburgh)

with a white shirt and black bow tie

on the corner of Snowsfields and Newcomen Street

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Edward Whymper, British mountaineer Size:M: 50 x 40cm the Duke of Saxe-Coburg andEdward Whymper, British mountaineer, 1865 (1956). Whymper is best known for his involvement in the first ascent of the Matterhorn, accomplished in 1865. Whymper reached the summit with Charles Hudson, Lord Francis Douglas, Douglas Hadow, accompanied by guides Michel Croz and the two Peter Taugwalders (father and son). Hadow, Croz, Hudson and Douglas were killed in a fall on the descent. He later went on to travel and climb in Greenland, South America