# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-schneider
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:53:37.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-schneider"
name: "Erwin Schneider"
slug: "erwin-schneider"
description: "Erwin Schneider was an Austrian mountaineer and cartographer. He made the first ascent of Huascarán, the highest mountain in Peru and of Lenin Peak in the Pamir Mountains. Between 1928 and 1931 he held and broke the records 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."
tagline: "Austrian mountain climber"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erwin-Schneider-Bergsteiger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1906-04-13"
deathDate: "1987-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.02
  momentum:             16.44900390362094
  historical:           5.482326666666667
  currentAttention:     20.15601503759398
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schneider_(Bergsteiger)"
    title: "Erwin Schneider (Bergsteiger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schneider"
    title: "Erwin Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schneider_(horolezec)"
    title: "Erwin Schneider (horolezec)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schneider"
    title: "Erwin Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schneider"
    title: "Erwin Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schneider"
    title: "Erwin Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1363427"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump