Edward Whymper, British mountaineer Size:M: 50 x 40cm Thrust SSC

Thrust SSC

From an edition of Aesop's Fables printed by William Caxton

Inscribed verso in ink ' No

The 'Blind Beggar' Public House on Whitechapel Road in Mile End

on the corner of Snowsfields and Newcomen Street

Edward Whymper, British mountaineer Size:M: 50 x 40cm Thrust SSCEdward 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