highest mountain in the world. On this pioneering lightweight expedition, the mountain claimed the first of its many victims, when Mummery and two Gurkhas, Ragobir Thapa and Goman Singh, fell and were killed by an avalanche while reconnoitering the Rakhiot Face. Their bodies were never found. The story of this disastrous expedition is told in J. Norman Collie's book From the Himalaya to Skye. In 1898, Collie named Mount Mummery in the Canadian Rockies after his climbing companion. Mummery left behind him a legacy of some of the most well-regarded routes in the Alps, and also, in his book My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus, one of the enduring classics of mountaineering literature. References External links Peter H. Hansen, ‘Mummery, Albert Frederick (1855–1895)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 1855 births 1895 deaths English mountain climbers Mountaineering deaths Sport deaths in Pakistan Deaths in avalanches