Voillat Adrien

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Biografie:
Adrien Voillat
Adrien Voillat was killed last August as the result of an accident in the Calanques of Marseilles; he was forty-four years of age. Voillat was a North-face specialist and ranked among the foremost ice climbers of the day.
His Alpine career began at the age of fifteen with a solo ascent of Mont Blanc and in recent years he had carried out a remarkable series of ice climbs, usually with his wife and Maurice Brandt. Voillat did not consider a North-face climb complete unless the descent was made by the same route. Among his expeditions were the first ascent and first descent of the North-north-east face of the BIümlisalp Rothorn, the first descent of the North face of the Studerhorn and of the West-north-west face of the Wetterhorn. He had also made the first descent of the North face of the Doldenhorn and of the Obergabelhorn and numerous other similar expeditions.
He had his own technique for the descent of great ice faces by means of which, and the special equipment he had designed, he achieved some fast times, descending in a few hours by routes which had required a day's work or more for the ascent.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 65, 1960, Seite 94


Geboren am:
1916
Gestorben am:
08.1960