The apprenticeship of a mountaineer

Edward Whymper, son of Josiah Wood Whymper (1813-1903) and Elizabeth Claridge (1819-1859), was born in 1840 in London, England. He married Edith Lewin (1883-1914). They had one daughter. In 1865 he was in the first party that successfully climbed to the top of the Matterhorn in Switzerland.