Sir Alfred Wills was the third President of the Alpine Club from 1864-1866. He was also a Judge for twenty-one years and one of the most well-known British mountaineers. The Alpine Club was: Today, Alpine clubs stage climbing competitions, operate Alpine huts and paths, and are active in protecting the Alpine environment. ...
His ascent of the Wetterhorn in 1854, which he mistakenly believed was the first, marked the beginning of the so-called "Golden Age" of mountaineering. The Wetterhorn is a mountain in the Swiss Alps close to the village of Grindelwald. ... Mountaineering is the sport or hobby or profession of walking, hiking and climbing up mountains. ...
From that time on, climbing as sport became fashionable.
Alfred William Howitt (1830–1908) was an Australian anthropologist and naturalist.
In 1861, the Royal Society of Victoria appointed Howitt as leader of the Victorian Relief Expedition, whose task was to establish the fate of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, leaders of the Burke and Wills expedition.
On a follow-up expedition to Coopers Creek in 1862, Howitt recovered the bodies of Burke and Wills for burial in Melbourne as well as collecting botanical specimens in north-eastern South Australia, south-western Queensland and western New South Wales.
Alfred was by now eleven years old and may have transferred to the new Board School on Paul Hill, opened in 1880 and free of charge, a big help to a widowed mother bringing up a young family.
Alfred arranged for most of the cargo to be discharged into small ships and then at high tide the ship was towed into the harbour to be repaired.
Alfred's grandson, Syd Vingoe, says he was told this was a "Brigantine square rigged on the foremast and fore and aft on the mizzen" Whether this was the same vessel as H.M. Trawler "Yokohama" we are not sure.
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