Rogers Bruce

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Biografie:
gestorben am Montblanc/Sentinelle Rouge (Frankreich)

Paul McDermott and Bruce Rogers were killed in August by an avalanche in the Great Couloir on the Sentinelle Rouge on Mont Blanc.
McDermott, an engineering student from Dublin was largely responsible for the development of the basalt crags at Fair Head, Co. Antrim, and with Emmett Goulding revived interest among Irish climbers in the Poisoned Glen, where, in addition to making the second ascent of such classics as 'Nightshade', they put up several routes of considerable length and difficulty. He was a very enthusiastic and able member of the Irish Andean Expedition 1968 (A.J. 74 262), and a leading figure in the Spillikin Club.
Rogers, a student at Trinity College, Dublin, opened up the limestone crag at Monastir Sink near his home in Enniskillen. He and McDermott had, in the month before their death, been particularly active at Fair Head, and also at Glendalough (where they put up two new VS routes the weekend before they went to Chamonix). In the week before the accident they climbed the Frendo Spur in foul conditions, and also, it is thought, the Gervasutti Pillar.
Paddy O'Leary
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 75, 1970, Seite 346-347


Gestorben am:
08.1970