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Gabriele Roth

Gabriele Roth - Feb 13, 2010 9:24 am - Hasn't voted

more details ...

... Only Walter Bonatti and Piere Mazeaud survived ...
Bonatti, Gallieni and Mazeaud

Don Whillans and Chris Bonington decided to have a go at the Freney Pillar. The team also included Ian Clough (who later died on Annapurna) and the Polish climber Jan Duglosz. Another strong French team, Rene Desmaison and Poulet Villard ...
you forgot : Pierre Julien & Ignazio Piussi

hansw

hansw - Feb 14, 2010 4:09 am - Hasn't voted

Re: more details ...

Thank you for your comment. I think the full account of the Italian-French attempt on the Central Pillar of Freney and the disaster following it should be in an SP-article of itself. Are you the one to write it?

Gabriele Roth

Gabriele Roth - Feb 20, 2010 8:30 am - Hasn't voted

Re: more details ...

no, sorry, I heard only something directly from Ignazio Piussi (when we met in Grigna, long long ago)

hansw

hansw - Feb 20, 2010 11:59 am - Hasn't voted

Re: more details ...

Here is a long article on the 1961 tragedy on the Central Pillar of Freney.

EricChu

EricChu - Feb 13, 2010 9:35 am - Voted 10/10

Thanks a lot for this post!

I have read Chris Bonington's "I chose to climb" with a great deal of enthusiasm, so I am a bit into this matter! I find it great that there are contributions like yours on SP that also shed light on important individual people in alpinism!

hansw

hansw - Feb 14, 2010 4:26 am - Hasn't voted

Re: Thanks a lot for this post!

Thanks for your positive feedback!

Big Benn

Big Benn - Feb 13, 2010 4:47 pm - Voted 10/10

A very good read

Thanks Hans. That was a very intersting article. Read very well indeed.

hansw

hansw - Feb 14, 2010 4:27 am - Hasn't voted

Re: A very good read

Thanks a lot and glad you liked it!

hansw

hansw - Feb 14, 2010 4:25 am - Hasn't voted

Re: I appreciate

Thanks a lot. Yes there are two pictures of the box in Bonington’s book “Annapurna South Face”. I will try to include one in the article later.

RayMondo

RayMondo - Feb 18, 2010 12:27 pm - Voted 10/10

Whillans Box

I believe it is here at last page.
Whillans Box

macintosh

macintosh - Sep 29, 2012 5:22 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Whillans Box

"I believe it is here at last page. Whillans Box" this link does not existe anymore.
Here are 2 pictures of the box.
http://www.smhc.co.uk/objects_item.asp?item_id=31776

chris.mueller

chris.mueller - Feb 14, 2010 6:27 am - Voted 10/10

Well written

Nice account on the "villain". Unfortunately a often forgotten mountaineer.

hansw

hansw - Feb 14, 2010 2:14 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Well written

Thanks. I hope this piece will make Whillans known to more SPers.

hansw

hansw - Feb 14, 2010 4:37 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Thanks Hans!

Thanks a lot and glad you liked it!

hansw

hansw - Feb 14, 2010 4:41 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: One of my Heroes...

Thanks for kind words! He is sort of a hero of mine too.

Noondueler

Noondueler - Feb 14, 2010 1:52 pm - Voted 10/10

A colorful legend.

We have Death Valley Scotty here in the American west.
The golden days of climbing in Europe and the Himalayas have Don Whillans.

hansw

hansw - Feb 14, 2010 4:42 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: A colorful legend.

Yes, one of a kind he was.

Cy Kaicener

Cy Kaicener - Feb 15, 2010 4:42 am - Hasn't voted

A popular legend

Thanks for a well written account of a nostalgic era. He had a great sense of humour

hansw

hansw - Feb 15, 2010 6:38 am - Hasn't voted

Re: A popular legend

Aye, 'e 'ad.

Thanks!

everestdreamz

everestdreamz - Feb 15, 2010 5:09 am - Hasn't voted

GOOD

Thanks a lot for this post.......

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