page_title: List of climbers and mountaineers
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context_page_description: This list of climbers and mountaineers is a list of people notable for the activities of mountaineering, rock climbing and ice climbing.
context_section_description: Samina Baig - Gilgit-Baltistan, 3rd Pakistani and only Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest
  John Bachar (1957–2009) US, noted for climbs in Yosemite National Park and free soloing
  John Ball (1818–1889) Ireland, naturalist and climber, Alps guidebooks author, first president of Alpine Club in 1857
  Jacques Balmat (1762–1834) Duchy of Savoy, Chamonix-based guide, first ascent Mont Blanc (1786)
  George Band (1929–2011) UK, Everest expedition (1953), first ascent Kanchenjunga (1955)
  Kinga Baranowska (born 1975), Poland, first Polish woman to have climbed Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and Kangchenjunga
  Anna Barańska (born 1976) Poland, first Polish woman on the North Face of Mount Everest
  Henry Barber (born 1953) US, leading US rock climber in the 1970s
  Andrzej Bargiel Current record holder in speed to get Snow Leopard award and current record holder Elbrus Race
  Lilliane and Maurice Barrard (1948–1986 and 1941?–1986 respectively) France, Gasherbrum II (1982), Nanga Parbat (1984, first female ascent), both killed on K2
  Charles Barrington (1834–1901) UK, first ascent Eiger (1858)
  Richard Bass (born 1929) US, businessman and amateur mountaineer, first to complete Seven Summits (1985)
  Robert Hicks Bates (1911–2007) US, first ascent Mount Lucania (1937), on US attempts on K2 (1938 and 1953)
  Mark Beaufoy (1764–1827) UK, fourth ascent Mont Blanc (1787)
  Fred Beckey (Friedrich Wolfgang Beckey) (1923-2017) Germany/US, many first ascents in US and Canada
  Bentley Beetham (1886–1963) UK, on 1924 Everest expedition; pioneer of Borrowdale (Lake District) rock climbing
  George Irving Bell (1926–2000) US, physicist, biologist and mountaineer, first ascent Masherbrum (1960), rescued on K2 (1953)
  Gertrude Bell (1868–1926) UK, many ascents in Alps and further afield
  Maciej Berbeka (1954–2013) first winter ascents of eight-thousanders: Manaslu, Cho Oyu, Broad Peak
  Josune Bereziartu (born 1972) Basque (Spain), rock climber; first female climber in grade 9a/5.14d
  Patrick Berhault (1957–2004) France, many ascents in the Alps.
  Didier Berthod Switzerland, featured in First Ascent
  Adam Bielecki (born 1983) first winter ascents of eight-thousanders: Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak
  Isabella Bird (1831–1904) UK, traveller, writer and natural historian
  Barry Blanchard (born 1959) Canada, mountain guide; first ascents in the Saint Elias range of Alaska
  Smoke Blanchard (1915–1989) US, developed Buttermilk bouldering area
  Karl Blodig (1859–1956) Austria, mountaineer, optician and journalist; first to climb all 4,000 metres peaks in the Alps
  Arlene Blum (born 1945) US, first US female attempt on Everest, led first all-woman ascent of Annapurna
  Peter Boardman (1950–1982) UK, Everest 1975, Changabang West Wall 1976, Kanchenjunga 1979, died on Everest with Joe Tasker
  Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau (1857–1923) France, first ascent La Meije with father and son Pierre Gaspard (1877)
  Jean-Marc Boivin (1951–1990) France, exponent of extreme ascents and descents
  Walter Bonatti (1930–2011) Italy, mountaineer and writer, solo new routes on Aiguille du Dru and Matterhorn
  Sir Chris Bonington (born 1934) UK, first ascent Central Pillar of Freney (1961), Annapurna II (1960), Nuptse (1961), Central Tower of Paine (1962–3), ascent of Everest (1985)
  Thomas George Bonney (1833–1923) UK, geologist and mountaineer, president of Alpine Club
  Jack Borgenicht (1911-2005), USA,  garment manufacturer, philanthropist, oldest person to climb Mount Rainier at age 81
  Alastair Borthwick (1913–2003) Scotland, climber and author of Always a Little Further
  Christine Boskoff (1967–2006) US, 6 8,000m summits, including Everest twice, died on Genyen Peak
  Anatoli Boukreev (1958–1997) Russia, climbed seven 8,000 m peaks without supplemental oxygen, died on Annapurna 1997
  Loulou Boulaz (1908–1991) Switzerland, several first ascents and first female ascents in the Alps
  Tom Bourdillon (1924–1956) UK, Cho Oyu (1952), British Everest expeditions (1951, 1952 and 1953), South Summit of Everest (1953), died on the Jägihorn
  Stipe Božić (born 1951) FPR Yugoslavia, completed Seven Summits, second European to climb Everest twi
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