Ulrich Almer

Ulrich Almer (8 May 1849 in Grindelwald – 4 September 1940) was a Swiss mountain guide.

He made many premieres in the Alps with his father Christian Almer, one of the great guides of the golden age of mountaineering, and was one of the first Swiss guides to visit the Caucasus.

[1] Ulrich Almer performed about fifteen premieres including those of the Aiguille de Blaitière and Aiguille de Triolet.

In 1874, on the descent after an attempt at the south face of Mont Blanc, his roped party fell into a crevasse on the Brouillard glacier, JAG Marshal and Johann Fischer dying instantly; Ulrich Almer, unconscious but unharmed, managed to get out of the crevasse and joined Courmayeur.

[2][3] Thirty-eight years later, in 1912, during a descent of the Aletschhorn, it was the turn of Andreas Fisher, Johann Fischer's son, and the same guide, to be the victim of a fall in a crevasse.