History of Mountaineering Timeline

Answer Key Name

Date

Directions: Read Reaching for the Heavens: The History of Mountaineering for details to
develop a timeline of major moments in the history of mountaineering.

When: Who? What? Where?

The first ascent of

1492 Antonine de Ville France
Mont Aiguille

Visited Chamonix and

Horace Bénédict de offered a reward to
1760 France
Saussure the first to summit Mt.
Blanc

Michel-Gabriel
First to summit Mt.
1786 Paccard, and France
Blanc
Jacques Balmat

Horace Bénédict de De Saussure summited

1787 France
Saussure Mt. Blanc

Attributed mountain
sickness to low oxygen
Alexander von
1802 at high altitudes after Ecuador
Humbolt
almost summiting
Chimborazo

First female to summit

1808 Marie Paradis France
Mt. Blanc

Antoni Malczewski,
First ascent of Aiguille
1818 J.M. Balmat, and five France
du Midi
guides

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 First summit of Pikes
1820 Dr. Edwin James Colorado, U.S.A.
Peak

First ascent of the

1854 Alfred Willis Switzerland
Wetterhorn
Golden Age

John Ball, E.S. Founded Alpine Club

1857 London, England
Kennedy, and others of Great Britain

Charles Edward First summit of the

1865 Switzerland and Italy
Whymper Matterhorn

First female ascent of

1871 Lucy Walker Switzerland and Italy
the Matterhorn

First to climb
1875 George Anderson California, U.S.A.
Yosemite’s Half Dome

First summit of
1897 Matthias Zurbriggen Argentina
Aconcagua

Founding President: Ladies’ Alpine Club

1907 Great Britain
Mrs. Aubrey le Blond Founded

Invention of 10-point
1908 Oscar Eckenstein United Kingdom
crampon

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First summit of Denali
1913 Tatum, Harry Karstens, Alaska, U.S.A.
(Mt. McKinley)
and Walter Harper

Reached 8,306 meters

Federal Democratic
(27,250 feet) on an
George Finch and Republic of Nepal /
1922 Everest expedition
Geffrey Bruce People’s Republic of
pioneering the use of
China
bottled oxygen
Federal Democratic
George Mallory and Republic of Nepal /
1924 (Student Choice)
Andrew Irvine People’s Republic of
China

Federal Democratic
Sherpa Tenzing
First official summit of Republic of Nepal /
1953 Norgay and Edmund
Mt. Everest People’s Republic of
Hillary
China

Ladies’ Alpine Club

1975 N/A and Alpine Club of Great Britain
Great Britain merged

Federal Democratic
First female to summit Republic of Nepal /
1975 Junko Tabei
Everest People’s Republic of
China

First to reach the

summit of all of the
1986 Patrick Morrow All seven continents
Seven Summits,
including Kosciuszki

First woman to
1992 Junko Tabei conquer the Seven All seven continents
Summits

Conrad Anker and the

Khumbu climbing Federal Democratic
2003 Alex Lowe Charitable
center opened Republic of Nepal
Foundation

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