Uploads from nicoatridge, with geodata

Colin Henry Taylor (37) - South Face of Obergabelhorn 1974

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:49 -0700

Also Edwin Jeremy Bailey from Batley (1949-1970) and Richard Ackermann (1933-1972)

Zermatt - Mountaineers Graveyard

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:50 -0700

The Mountaineers Graveyard is to the left, just in front of the church. The Matterhorn, responsible for many of the fatalities, can be seen in the distance.

Donald Stephen Williams (17) - Breithorn 1975 "I Chose to Climb"

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:59 -0700

nicoatridge posted a photo:

David Robinson behind. Hermann Hotz further behind.

Freda Currant (24) - Matterhorn 1936

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:56 -0700

nicoatridge posted a photo:

"Passed into a fuller life" at dawn on August 6th 1936. One of many female climbers who died on the Matterhorn, first conquered by a woman in 1871 by Lucy Walker.

Vernon Charles Strange - Descending Hohlicht into the Zmutt Valley 1933

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:57 -0700

nicoatridge posted a photo:

Strange, from London, was probably 40 when he fell to his death on 30th August 1933. He is mentioned as having been made an officer at the outset of the First World War, so did remarkably well to survive through until the conclusion. His luck let him down 19 years later.

Charles Richard Earnshaw (22) - Descending Obergabelhorn 1958.

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:04 -0700

nicoatridge posted a photo:

Dearly loved younger son of John & Vinnie Earnshaw of Baildon, England, born 20 years to the day before me and who lost his promising life one July day in 1958.

David Robinson (24) - descending Matterhorn by Hornli Ridge 1976

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:59 -0700

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Arthur Gillian Emery - Weisshorn 1963

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:05 -0700

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To the right is the grave of A K Wilson who died aged 26 on the Riffelhorn in 1865, just days after the first fatal ascent of the Matterhorn, apparently after trying to climb the mountain solo on his return from climbing it with some companions.

The New York Times reported the events as follows:

FOREIGN ITEMS.
Published: August 14, 1865
Rev. J. MCCORMICK, of Zermatt, reports an other fatal Alpine accident. He writes from the Hotel du Mont-Rose, July 19, and says that Rev. J. ROBERTSON and Mr. PHILLPOTTS, who were staying at the Riffel Hotel, yesterday evening at bedtime missed their friend, Mr. KNYVET WILSON. Search was instantly made for him with lanterns. Their guides and friends divided themselves into parties, so as to sweep over the face of the mountain. The night was spent in looking for him, and the search was continued at daybreak. The body was eventually found on the rocks of the Riffelhorn, a rugged,dangerously slippery hill of serpentine rock, only a short distance from the Riffel Hotel. Mr. WILSON had mounted this rock with some of his friends in the morning, taking the proper precautions of having guides and a rope with them. He must, in the absence of his companions, have climbed up it again in the evening without rope or guide, lost his hold in coming down, and fallen backwards on his head. Death must necessarily have been instantaneous. Mr. WILSON was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Master of Rugby School. He appears to be most deeply regretted as an able master, a cheerful and affectionate friend, and a man of great vigor and independence of character.

Charles Richard Earnshaw (1935-58) - Descending Obergabelhorn

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:04 -0700

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Also

Eduoard de Gigord, Yves Guibert, Pierre Langlois, Pierre Le Bec - Breithorn, 1928

Erkenwald B Mooring Aldridge (1882-1964)

Patrouille des Glaciers

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:05 -0700

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The high ski-mountaineering circuit between Zermatt, Arolla and Verbier has claimed, surprisingly, only three lives, back in 1948.

Peter-Roderick Phillips (1935-1955) - Matterhorn

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:48 -0700

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David Robinson (24) - Matterhorn descent on Hornli Ridge, 1976

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:47 -0700

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Michel Auguste Croz - Matterhorn 1865

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:04 -0700

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Michel Auguste Croz, from Chamonix, was a mountain guide and the first to ascend many mountains in the western Alps, although he is chiefly remembered for his death on the first ascent of the Matterhorn along with Lord Francis Douglas, Charles Hudson and Douglas Hadow.

Jonathan Henry Conville (27) - Matterhorn 1979

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:03 -0700

nicoatridge posted a photo:

Also Hubert Jaritz - Monte Rosa 1925

Conville fell from the North Face of the Matterhorn on 29th December 1979, when the sheer bleakness of the mountain must have made it as hard an ascent as you can imagine.

His inscription reads:

Let me go climb these virgin snows,
Leave the dark stain of man behind
Let me give adventure and heaven knows
Grateful shall be my quiet mind

William Andrew Bell (23), James Ian Campbell McKean (22), James William Ogilvie (23) - Matterhorn 1948

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:02 -0700

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Friends from Oxford, "non enim accessistis ad tractabilem montem" Hebrews 12:18 translates as "For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched"

Also Unknown Climber - Matterhorn 1948

John Gregory Cooper (22) & Rupert James Champion (19) - Matterhorn 1959

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:59 -0700

nicoatridge posted a photo:

The two friends from Cambridge University died together on the Zmutt Ridge. The Glasgow Herald reported on July 18th, 1959 that Cooper and Champion were in a party of four, two of whom - Ian Gibson and Julian Williams - survived the aborted ascent. Gibson reported that he and Williams were roped together about 30 ft behind the other pair. "We had reached the Z'mutt Ridge when one of the other two slipped in the new snow and fell, dragging the other with him," Gibson said. "It seems that one of them had not tied himself securely to the rocks while the other went forward". The pair fell about 1000m to the Tiefenmatten glacier, where their bodies were recovered by helicopter the following day.

In foreground, headstone behind is for Omerville Hastings (1877-1967) and Bessie Hastings (1882-1958).

Hermann Hotz (53) - Weisshorn 1933

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:01 -0700

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Born in Simla, India and employed as Director and Engineer of the Rawalpindi Electric Power Company. The Himalayan Club reported Hotz was a keen mountaineer since boyhood and had considerable experience in both the Alps and the Himalayas. In 1933, with Franz Lochmatter, he climbed the Tschingelhorn, Aletschorn, Matterhorn, Dent Blanche, and the Weisshorn, being killed with Lochmatter while descending the last-named peak on the 17th August 1933. It was apparently always his wish to be taken suddenly in his beloved mountains and to be buried in the snow.

To the right: Hugh Desmond Bullock (27) and Daniel Alan Hanson (25) - Pollux 1949

Behind: Gigord party, Erinwald B Mooring, Sandro Wulff (30) - 2002, Rude & Hans Gallman - 1941, Eduard von Grote - 1859

Alfred Spratt (c34) - 1868

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:56 -0700

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Herbert & Anni Braum - Matterhorn 1924

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:03 -0700

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Herbert Lothar B. Braum (29) & his wife, Anni Marschner (27) whilst on their honeymoon - Matterhorn 1924. He was a physician and military reservist, a son and brother with a heart of sunshine according ot the inscription. The last line is a German corruption of Ophelia's lament from Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 "O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!".

Also:
Jonathan D Ryder (43) - Chamonix 1985
Hans Karl Nielson (18) - Zinal Rothorn 1981

Geoffrey Christopher Gregson (22) - Dent Blanche 1936

nobody@flickr.com (nicoatridge) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:58 -0700

nicoatridge posted a photo:

Gregson fell 1000m whilst nearing the summit of the Dent Blanche peak.