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    "sixth grade" in six-tier scale of alpinistic difficulties proposed by Willo Welzenbach (corresponding to 5.9). Thirty years later UIAA used this as a basis...
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    Northwest Face (Nordwestwand) on 15 July 1924 by Franz Riegele and Willo Welzenbach. They were the first ones to use ice nails (Eisnägel) to assist them;...
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    that followed, three famous German mountaineers, Ulrich Wieland [de], Willo Welzenbach [de] and Merkl himself, as well as six Sherpas, died of exhaustion...
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    grades of level 0 and level 00 were added. In 1923, German mountaineer Willo Welzenbach [de] compressed the scale and reversed the order so level 00 became...
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    that followed, three famous German mountaineers, Ulrich Wieland [de], Willo Welzenbach [de] and Merkl himself, as well as six Sherpas, died of exhaustion...
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    Switzerland climbing region; famous overhang known as "the mailbox". 1923 : Willo Welzenbach [de], adding to Dülfer's five grades, creates the Roman Numeral European...
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  • climb its east face. In 1923, Noll-Hasenclever, Hans Pfann [de], and Willo Welzenbach [de] made the first two-day climb of the Matterhorn and the Dent d'Hérens...
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    were tackled two years later by the direct line of the 'Welzenbach Route' (Willo Welzenbach and Eugen Allwein) on 10 August 1925, which may be considered...
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    the southeast (I) and northeast (II) ridges. The route first used by Willo Welzenbach and E. Müller up the northwest face is rated as grade V. Stephan Beulke:...
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    Gilgit because he had entered Kashmir illegally. See Collie (1902). Willo Welzenbach [de], who died on the 1934 expedition, had written to his parents,...
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