Paul Grohmann

Paul Grohmann (1838 to 1908) was an Austrian mountaineer and writer, a pioneer in exploring technically challenging mountains who is thought to have made more first ascents of Eastern Alps summits than anyone else, among them the four highest summits in the Dolomites. In 1862 he, Friedrich Simony and Edmund von Mojsvár founded the Austrian Alpine Club, the second mountaineering club in the world after the British Alpine Club of 1857. His first ascents include the Hochalmspitze in 1859 and the Tofana di Mezzo and Antelao in 1863. In 1875 he published a detailed map of the Dolomites and in 1877 the travel book Wanderungen in den Dolomiten, which stimulated mountain tourism in the area; the town of Urtijëi erected a monument to his first ascents in 1898.