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Melchior Anderegg (28 March 1828 – 8 December 1914), [1] from Zaun, Meiringen, was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascensionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alpinism.
Melchior Anderegg, Leslie Stephen, E. S. Kennedy and Thomas Cox [86] 9 Jul 1863: Piz Zupò: 3996: Alps: The teacher Enderlin, the pastor Otto Serardy and the hunter Badrutt [87] 12 Aug 1863: Dent d'Hérens: 4171: Alps: Melchior Anderegg, Jean-Pierre Cacha, Peter Perren guiding F. Crauford Grove, William E. Hall, Reginald S. Macdonald, Montagu ...
Melchior Anderegg (1828–1914), Swiss mountain guide; Melchora Aquino (1812-1919), Filipino revolutionary; Melchior Berri (1801–1854), Swiss architect; Melchior Broederlam (c. 1350 – after 1409), Dutch painter
Well-known guides of the era include Christian Almer, Jakob Anderegg, Melchior Anderegg, Johann Joseph Bennen , Peter Bohren, Jean-Antoine Carrel, Michel Croz, Ulrich Kaufmann and Johannes Zumtaugwald.
Horace Walker, Melchior Anderegg, Johann Jaun and Julien Grange, 30 June 1868 Easiest route Pointe Walker, south-west face, AD-, II, 1,400 m (4,600 ft), to 45 degrees - a glacier climb
The first ascent was made on 22 August 1864 via the north ridge by Leslie Stephen and Florence Crauford Grove with guides Jakob Anderegg and Melchior Anderegg. They left Zinal at 1 a.m. and ascended the Zinal Glacier. They reached the shoulder from the ridge connecting the Blanc de Moming at the base of the northern ridge at 9 a.m. The traverse ...
The highest peak was ascended in 1860 by Leslie Stephen, accompanied by R. Liveing and J.K. Stone, with Melchior Anderegg and Pierre Simond of Argentière as guides. Starting from the chalets of the Oeschinenalp at 2 a.m., they reached the ridge near the Dündengrat at 4.15.
Whymper was annoyed that he had not chosen the line taken up the Grandes Murailles glacier and the south-west flank by Melchior Anderegg on the first ascent and later wrote: This was the only mountain in the Alps that I have essayed to ascend, that has not, sooner or later, fallen to me. Our failure was mortifying . . . [4]