North - Mountain Guide from Courmayeur

North has Brocherel. Reached summit with Mackinder 13-9-1899

Alpine Journal 1989 pp. 154-161 Mackinder returned to the mountain to make a final attempt to reach the summit. On 12 September, he and the two Italians again followed the now familiar route up the face of the southern arere. However, this time they spent the night inside a Mummery tent near the top of the arete. Early next morning they left the arete, traversed across the head of the Darwin glacier and then followed a rock-rib to a glacier which descends from the. Gate of the Mist, the high col between Mount Kenya's twin summits of Batian (5I99m) and Nelion (5 I88m) - all names given by Mackinder. They had hoped to cut steps in this glacier and traverse it in 20 minutes, but the glacier proved very steep and its ice was intensely hard. Step-cutting was extremely arduous, the traverse took three hours and Mackinder named this adamantine glacier the Diamond Glacier. From the Gate of the Mist a final rock scramble took Mackinder, Oilier and Brocherel to the summit of Batian, which they reached precisely at noon on 13 September. They stayed on the summit for about 40 minutes and then, in mist, descended cautiously by the same route. The lower section of the descent was completed in darkness and the three finally reached camp after lopm, 'exhausted, but victorious'. Mackinder remained on Mount Kenya for several more days before descending to Base Camp on 20 September. While on the mountain the expedition also undertook scientific experiments and other research; this included altitude studies, botany, cartography, geology, glacier surveys, meteorology, photography and zoology. Mackinder left Mount Kenya on 21 September and arrived back in London on 30 October.

Climbed in Ruwenzori mts in 1906