Born: London, England

First ascents :-

Mont Pelvoux 1861, with R.J.S.Macdonald and Jean Reynaud

Pointe des Ecrins 1864, with A.W.Moore, H.Walker, Christian Almer and Michel Croz

Grand Cornier 1865, with C.Almer, M.Croz and F.Biner

Grandes Jorasses (Pointe Whymper) 1865, with C.Almer, M.Croz and F.Biner

Aiguille Verte 1865, with C.Almer and F.Biner

Matterhorn 1865, with :

- Michel Croz

- Lord Francis Douglas

- Douglas Hadow

- Charles Hudson

- 'Old' Peter Taugwalder

- 'Young' Peter Taugwalder

- Croz, Douglas, Hadow and Hudson perished on the descent.

Chimborazo 1880, with Jean-Antoine and Louis Carrel

Publications :

- Scrambles in the Alps in the years 1860 - 69 (1871)

- Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator (1891-92)

- How to use the Aneroid Barometer (1891)

- Chamonix and the Range of Mont Blanc (1896)

- The Valley of Zermatt and the Matterhorn(1897)

- A Right Royal Mountaineer (1909)

- Episodes from the Ascent of Mont Blanc (1928)

- Edward Whymper (1940), biography by Frank Smythe

- The First Descent of the Matterhorn (1997), by Alan Lyall