List of climbers and mountaineers

This is a list of climbers and mountaineers who are notable for their activities in mountaineering (including alpine climbing), rock climbing (including aid climbing, free climbing, bouldering, speed climbing and competition climbing) or in ice climbing (including mixed climbing).

Reinhold Messner , the first mountaineer to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders

Jacques Balmat

Adam Bielecki

Arlene Blum

David Breashears

Bill Westbay, Jim Bridwell (center), and John Long

Yvon Chouinard

Chhurim

Johann Coaz

Emilio Comici

Michel Croz

Clinton Thomas Dent

Kurt Diemberger

Douglas Freshfield

Tom Frost

Conrad Gessner

John Gill

Stefan Glowacz

Paul Güssfeldt

Artur Hajzer

Colin Haley

Heinrich Harrer

Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed

Lynn Hill

Edmund Hillary

Margaret Jackson

Dora Keen

Jerzy Kukuczka

Jaan Künnap

Reinhold Messner

Thomas Middlemore

Albert F. Mummery

Tenzing Norgay

Juanito Oiarzabal

Adam Ondra

Michel-Gabriel Paccard

Paul Preuss

Monique Richard

Wanda Rutkiewicz

Leni Riefenstahl

John Salathé

Horace-Bénédict de Saussure

Ueli Steck

Gottlieb Samuel Studer

Sheikha Asma Al Thani

Bill Tilman

Francis Fox Tuckett

Karl Unterkircher

Anak Verhoeven

Edward Whymper

Krzysztof Wielicki

Andrzej Zawada