!!!Purtscheller, Ludwig

b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Oct. 6, 1849, 
d. Berne (Switzerland), March 3, 1900 (after a climbing accident 
Aiguille du Dru in the Montblanc massif), mountaineer. Climbed over 
1,600 summits, including over forty 4,000 m to 5,000 m high mountains 
in the Alps, in the Caucasus and in Africa. 1889 with H. Meyer first 
ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m); a neighbouring summit (P. 
Peak), a species of moss and one of lichen bear his name.

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Work: Ueber Fels und Firn, 1901.



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