Greek mountain climber and guide
Christos Kakkalos
The summits of Mount Olympus. On the right is Mytikas (2917.727 m), on the left Stefani (2909 m)
The "Plateau of the Muses" with the mountain hut named after Christos Kakkalos, in the background the Stefani summit (2909 m)
Christos Kakkalos (Greek : Χρήστος Κάκκαλος ; 13 July 1882 – 12 April 1976) was a Greek mountain guide. He led the 1913 expedition of the Swiss Daniel Baud-Bovy and Frédéric Boissonnas and is considered the first climber to have ascended Mytikas ,[ 1] the highest peak of Mount Olympus (2917.727 m) in Greece .[ 2]
^ Boissonnas (1919). La Grèce immortelle .
^ Ampatzidis, Dimitrios; Moschopoulos, Georgios; Mouratidis, Antonios; Styllas, Michael; Tsimerikas, Alexandros; Deligiannis, Vasileios-Klearchos; Voutsis, Nikolaos; Perivolioti, Triantafyllia-Maria; Vergos, Georgios S.; Plachtova, Alexandra (2023). "Revisiting the determination of Mount Olympus Height (Greece)" . Journal of Mountain Science . 20 (4): 1026–1034. doi :10.1007/s11629-022-7866-8 . ISSN 1672-6316 .