Bingham John Sutton Martin

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Biografie:
Bingham John Sutton Martin,
John Bingham lernte das Klettern von dem bekannten Eton Meister und Bergsteiger, John Hills. Er war ein sehr guter Kletterer, vor allem im Fels und bestieg viele der bekannten Alpengipfel.
Seine ersten Klettertouren erfolgten im Lake District. Über einen relativ kurzen Zeitraum kletterte er ausgiebig in die Alpen,vor allem im Bernina-und Fornogebiet, auch auf Korsika, dem Seengebiet und in Schottland.
In Oxford war er ein aktives Mitglied der OUMC und wurde Präsident des Vereins.
1929 Beg.Matterhorn-Zmuttgrat,
1929 Best. im Forno- und Berninagebiet,
1931 Best. in Nord-Wales,
1931 Beg.Holly Tree Wall,


John Sutton Martin Bingham 1908-1984
J. S. M. Bingham died aged 76 after having been a member of the Club for 51 years. He made numerous classic climbs in the Alps in the late 20's and early 30's, several with Sir William Younger, and four trips to Corsica with Hills, Powell and Howson, the latter being two of the four Eton masters tragically killed on the Piz Roseg in 1933. He does not appear to have been active in the mountains afterthat.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 90, 1985, Seite 280

John Sutton Martin Bingham 1908-1984
John Bingham was introduced to climbing while at Eton by the wellknown Eton master and mountaineer, John Hills, climbing at first in the Lake District. At Oxford he was an active member of the OUMC, becoming, in due course, secretary of the club. Over a relatively brief period he climbed extensively in the Alps, also in Corsica, the Lake District and Scotland, climbing, often guideless, many of the better known Alpine peaks. However, soon after leaving Oxford, he became a land agent, a factor in a firm of which he, in due course, became senior partner and his climbing career ended.
William Younger

Tom Peacocke writes:
John Bingham was my contemporary at Oxford. He was Hon Sec and then President of the OUMC. I climbed with him in the Forno and Bernina Districts in 1929 on an OUMC meet. I also climbed with him on another OUMC meet in North Wales in 1931. He was a very good rock climber, but not so keen on ice and snow. He led six of us up the Holly Tree Wall which in 1931 was considered extremely difficult. Of course we were all wearing nailed boots. I know little about his Alpine ascents except that he climbed the Zmuttgrat in 1929.
I always found him a very pleasant companion though he did not suffer fools gladly.
Alec Malcolm writes:
John Bingham went up to Oxford where he became President of the OUMC and took a leading part in organising several club meets in the Alps. He then got a job as a land agent in Scotland. He joined the Black Watch as a Territorial and was made prisoner with the Highland Division at St Valery. After the war he returned to Scotland and eventually set up his own firm of estate agents in Inverness.
He was a contemporary of Tom Brocklebank at Eton in his early days and took part with him in parties of Masters and Old Boys at the old Royal Hotel, Capel Curig, and at Pen-y-Gwryd, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, where they learnt the basics of rock-climbing.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 91, 1986, Seite 266-267



Geboren am:
1908
Gestorben am:
1984