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1840–1911 · British mountaineer
Also known as: Edward J. Whymper, Whymper, Эдуард Уимпер, 에드워드 휨퍼, エドワード・ウィンパー, 愛德華·溫珀
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- Stories for summer days and winter nights
- Scrambles amongst the Alps (1869)
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- Supplementary appendix to Travels amongst the great Andes of the Equator
- Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator (1892)