Pryce Hugh Lewis

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Biografie:
Hugh Lewis Pryce (1907- 1965)
Hugh Pryce was brought up in North Wales and the love of the hills was born in him. After he left school at Clifton he went up to Balliol and there joined the Oxford University Mountaineering Club, and through the club he \Vas introduced to rock-climbing and mountaineering and to nearly all the companions with whom he climbed in the future. His first visit to the Alps was in 1928 with the O.U.M.C. meet in the Graians, followed in 1929 with the club at huts above Maloja and in 1930 at the Punteglias hut.
In the years that followed, up to the war, he often climbed with G. F. Smith-Barry, A. M. Binnie, H. R. Herbert and myself, learning immensely by example from Smith-Barry, a mountaineer of great experience and artistry. He had good seasons in the Oberland in 1933, in the Dauphine in 1936 and many other expeditions to the smaller mountains. He was elected to the Alpine Club in 1936. In 1947 he and I paid a brief visit to the Himalaya, making a trek in Kumaon in the mountains to the east of Trisul, where we climbed a small peak near to the southern rim of the Nanda Devi basin. He delighted in all the new experiences, in the company of two Sherpas and of the local porters, and in the camping life.
After that he returned again to the Alps many times in the summer, and also again took up ski-ing.
He was considerably below average height and was not naturally athletic, so never found rock or ice climbing as easy as some do; but he always laughed at his own difficulties, as indeed at many things, and only protested mildly if the steps were cut too far apart, or he was unable to reach across a backing-up pitch. His gnome-like features were always twinkling and his happiness and chuckles were infectious. He was an ideal climbing companion, always ready to do more than his share of chores in the hut and never out of humour.
By profession he was an accountant, for many years with Messrs. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., and was latterly comptroller of the Colonial Development Corporation.
He was one of the Club auditors from 1948 to 1950, and was auditor of the Club Pension Fund from its start in 1948 until his death. He took immense trouble over these tasks, which sometimes involved much investigation and accounting before the audit could be carried out: the Club owes him much for the trouble he took and his quiet and patient work.
A. D. Malcolm
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 71, 1966, Seite 196-197


Geboren am:
1907
Gestorben am:
1965