Charles Barrington

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Sir Charles Barrington was a mountaineer who is famous for his 1858 first ascent of the Eiger, a noted mountain peak in Switzerland. Heinrich Harrer, in his book about the Eiger North Face - The White Spider (1959) – noted that Barrington would have performed the first ascent of the Matterhorn instead, but he did not have enough money to travel to Zermatt (Valais) where the latter mountain is located. With the support of two mountain guides, Christian Almer and Peter Bohren, he summitted the Eiger using the mountain's west flank.[1]

Sir Charles Barrington was also a noted landowner in Ireland and he possessed a famous race horse, the "Sir Robert Peel".

Barrington organized the first Irish mountain race in 1870, offering a gold watch to the winner of this running event.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Harrer, Heirich [1959] (1998). The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger. J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, pp. 15-17. ISBN 0874779405. 
  2. ^ Charles Barrington Memorial Race. Irish Mountain Running Association. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.


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