Andreas "Anderl" Mannhardt is born
On 25 October 1939, Andreas ‘Anderl’ Mannhardt was born in Rottach-Egern, Germany. In March 1961, at the age of 21,...
25/10/1939
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Francesco Petrarca
A poet and humanist born in Arezzo in 1304, author of a letter describing an ascent of Mont Ventoux dated...
20/07/1304
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Tenzing Norgay
A Sherpa mountaineer, he reached the summit of Everest with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953.
01/05/1914
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Fritz Wintersteller
Austrian mountaineer; first to climb Broad Peak in 1957 with Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger and Hermann Buhl.
21/10/1927
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