Melchior Anderegg
Melchior Anderegg, from Zaun, Meiringen, was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascensionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alpinism. His clients were mostly British, the most famous of whom was Leslie Stephen, the writer, critic and mountaineer; Anderegg also climbed extensively with members of the Walker family, including Horace Walker and Lucy Walker, and with Florence Crauford Grove. His cousin Jakob Anderegg was also a well-known guide.
Alpine guide
First ascents by Melchior Anderegg- Wildstrubel, 3,243 m, 11 September 1858
- Rimpfischhorn, 4,199 m, 9 September 1859
- Alphubel, 4,206 m, 9 August 1860
- Blüemlisalphorn, 3,664 m, 27 August 1860
- Monte Disgrazia, 3,678 m, 23 August 1862
- Dent d'Hérens, 4,171 m, 12 August 1863
- Parrotspitze, 4,432 m, 16 August 1863
- Balmhorn, 3,698 m, 21 July 1864
- Zinalrothorn, 4,221 m, 22 August 1864
- Grandes Jorasses, 4,208 m, 30 June 1868
- Mont Blanc, 4,809 m, via the Bosses du Dromedaire
- Mont Blanc via the Dôme du Goûter
- Solo reconnaissance up the Zmuttgrat of the Matterhorn
- Mont Blanc via the Brenva face
- Winter traverse of the Finsteraarhorn, 4,273 m
- Civetta, 3,220 m
- Winter ascent of the Plattenhörner
- First winter ascent of the Galenstock, 3,586 m
Wood carver
Anderegg was also a professional wood carver and owned a shop in Zermatt that sold his carvings, as well as 'Photographs of all the great peaks around Zermatt', alpenstocks, snow spectacles and Whymper's guides.[image:Melchior Anderegg.jpg|160px|thumb|Portrait of Melchior Anderegg at sixty-eight (from a photograph by C. Myles Mathews)]