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Edouard Wyss-Dunant

Edouard Wyss-Dunant
Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (d. 1983)

Edouard Wyss-Dunant was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad. He published a number of treatises in his professional capacity and was the author of several mountaineering books. He is best known for his leadership of the Swiss Expedition to Everest of 1952.

17 April 1897

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