Charles Barrington (1834 to 20 April 1901) was an Irish merchant from Fassaroe, near Bray in County Wicklow, who led the first team to climb the Eiger, on 11 August 1858, despite little or no earlier mountaineering experience. With the guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren he reached the summit by the west flank. Heinrich Harrer later wrote that Barrington would have attempted the Matterhorn instead had he been able to afford the journey to Zermatt. Barrington never returned to the Alps, but in Ireland he owned the racehorse Sir Robert Peel, winner of the first Irish Grand National in 1870, and organised the first Irish mountain race on the Sugar Loaf in County Wicklow. He died in Dublin and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery.
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led the first team to successfully climb the Eiger on 11 August 1858
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