Edward Whymper FRSE (27 April 1840 – 16 September 1911) was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Four members of his climbing party were killed during the descent. Whymper also made important first ascents on the Mont Blanc massif and in the Pennine Alps, Chimborazo in South America, and the Canadian Rockies. His exploration of Greenland contributed an important advance to Arctic exploration. Whymper wrote several books on mountaineering, including Scrambles Amongst the Alps.
Books in order of publication:
Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860–69. London: John Murray, 1871.
Winter Pictures: By Poet and Artist. London: Religious Tract Society, 1875.
The Ascent of the Matterhorn. London: John Murray, 1880.
How to Use the Aneroid Barometer. London: John Murray, 1881.
Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London: John Murray, 1891.
Chamonix and the Range of Mont Blanc: A Guide. London: John Murray, 1896.
The Valley of Zermatt and the Matterhorn: A Guide. London: John Murray, 1897.
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer: Edward Whymper’s London Diary, 1855–1859. Ed. Ian Smith. London: London Record Society, 2008.
Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. Bird (1894, as illustrator)
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