Erwin Schneider was an Austrian mountaineer and cartographer who lived from 13 April 1906 to 18 August 1987. He made the first ascent of Huascaran, the highest mountain in Peru, and of Lenin Peak in the Pamir Mountains. Between 1928 and 1931 he held and broke the record for the highest summit reached in the world on three different peaks in succession. He was also a pioneer in the use of terrestrial photogrammetry for mountain cartography.
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