"It has frequently been noticed that all mountains appear doomed to pass through the three stages: An inaccessible peak—The most difficult ascent in the Alps—An easy day for a lady."
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My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus (1895), p. 160.
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Albert F. Mummery
Albert Frederick Mummery (10 September 1855, Dover, Kent, England – 24 August 1895, Nanga Parbat), was an English mountaineer and author. Although most notable for his many and varied first ascents put up in the , Mummery, along with , , and two are also the first men in recorded history to have attempted to summit one of the Himalayan .
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