Il 7 luglio 1870 William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge, Christian Almer e Ulrich Almer raggiungono per la prima volta la vetta dell'Ailefroide (3954m) nel Massiccio des Écrins.

On 22 August 1873, a rope team consisting of Antonio Castagneri, Giuseppe Castagneri and Leopoldo Barale reached the summit of Herbétet (3778m) for the first time.

 On 5 August 1804, Gottlieb Samuel Studer was born in Langnau im Emmental (Canton Bern), a Swiss mountaineer who was the first ascender of the Wildhorn (3248m) and one of the founders of the Swiss Alpine Club. In his mountaineering career he climbed more than 650 peaks. 

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On 12 April 1856, William Martin Conway was born in Rochester, a British explorer and mountaineer known for a number of notable ascents in the Alps, Andes and Karakorum.

On 13 March 1961, Mike Gill, Barry Bishop, Mike Ward and Wally Romanes, members of an expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary, reached the summit of Ama Dablam (6856m) along the south-west ridge for the first time: a respectable ascent (VI 5.9 60° 1500m...

The first ascent of Shisha Pangma was carried out on 2 May 1964 by a Chinese expedition led by Xǔ Jìng. The expedition that reached the summit also consisted of Zhāng Jùnyán, Wáng Fùzhōu, Wū Zōngyuè, Chén Sān, Soinam Dorjê ...