| From: | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 |
| Date of birth: | 9th September 1859 |
| Age: | 61 years old |
| Date of death: | 8th April 1921 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Notable Partnerships | |
| Aleister Crowley | |
Oscar Eckenstein was an English rock climber, mountaineer and bouldering pioneer. Inventor of the modern crampon, and the short-shafted ice axe. Leader of the first serious expedition to attempt K2.
[1] The Eckenstein Boulder which Eckenstein is said to have described as embodying 'all the fundamental problems that are such a joy to mountaineers'