Alexander Burgener was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascentionist of many mountains and new routes in the western Alps during the silver age of alpinism.
Together with Albert Mummery, he made the first ascent of the Zmuttgrat on the Matterhorn on September 3, 1879, and of the Grands Charmoz (1880) and the Aiguille du Grépon in the Mont Blanc Massif (August 5, 1881). With another British alpinist, Clinton Thomas Dent, he made the first ascent of the Lenzspitze (August 1870) and the Grand Dru (September 12, 1878),
He was killed by an avalanche on July 8, 1910 near the Berglihütte in the Bernese Alps. Six other climbers died in the avalanche, including Burgener's son Adolf.
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