Alfred Markgraf Pallavicini (* 26. May 1848 in Sopron ( Sopron ); † 26. June 1886 in the Glockner group , Carinthia ) was an Austrian mountaineer and was known in his time as the strongest man in Vienna .

 

From an Italian-Austrian noble family coming, Pallavicini had until the end of the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, lieutenant in the imperial Alpenjäger corps and later a reserve officer in the Tyrolean Kaiser Infantry Regiment .

 

In addition to numerous first ascents in the Dachstein Mountains , in the Dolomites and at the Suldengrat Königsspitze Pallavicini famous nationally by the first ascent of a 600 meters high and up to 55 degrees steep ice gully at the Grossglockner , which was later named after him. In this company on 18 August 1876, he was accompanied by three guides Johann Kramser, Georg Bäuerle and Josef Tribusser. Since the use of ice picks only in 1924 by Willo Welzenbach was introduced, the guides had 2,500 during the ascent through the channel steps with the ice pick hit the ice. The second ascent of Pallavicinirinne took place only 23 years later.

 

Pallavicini was a founding member of the founded in 1878 Austrian Alpine Club . In the same year he became the first People Weightlifting 100 kilograms to high range.

 

In the Glocknergruppe where Pallavicini had achieved his greatest success, he came on June 26, 1886 also to death. With an ascent of Glocknerwand he and his three companions rushed for a Wecht break from just below the summit. Their graves are in the Mountaineers' cemetery in Heiligenblut am Großglockner .