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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17401, 11 March 1922, Page 9

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Peter Baumann, the doyen of Swiss Alpine guides, died at Grindelwald, Ma native village, on December 17th. He •was born in 1833, and from 1861 up to 1903 "Old Peter" guided hundreds of tourists, most of -whom were British. In 1861 he helped Jacki in his survey •work for the Dufour map, and made with him the second ascent of the Eiger. .Next year he made the first crossing of the Jungfraujoch and of the Fiescherjoch. In 1869, with Phillips, he was witness of the accident -which befell iSlliott and tried in vain to find hi 3 corpse. In 1873 he succeeded in ascendup- the Schreckhorn by the Lauteraarsattel, and later he ascended the central peak of La Meige. Baumann was very proud of having been the guM® of famous climbers, such as Leslie Stephen, Moore, Tyndall, and the Bendlebuiy prother*.