Moules Leonard C.J.

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Biografie:
LEONARD C. J. MOULES (1912-1978)
THE climbing world will be saddened to hear of the passing of Len Moules who died of a heart attack in March 1978.
Mountain traveller and christian evangelist, Len was born in 1912 and as a young man worked with, the World-wide Evangelization Crusade in Garhwal, returning there after four years' war service with the Indian Army.
In the course of his work, Len travelled the trade routes and high passes near the Indo-Tibet border and an epic film of one of these journeys earned him his F.R.G.S.
W. H. Murray describes a visit he made to Milam - a few miles East of Nanda Devi. He describes Len cheerfully dispensing medicine, doing simple surgery, preaching and teaching, with little privacy yet surrounded by the love of the Bhotia people he had come to serve. Murray continues us, Moules was a mountaineer, unlike us he had chosen to sacrifice an outstanding physical ability to an ideal of service higher than ours'.
Len returned to the U.K. in 1961 becoming Director of the W. E. C. and writing several very readable books. He leaves a widow and three grown-up children.
R. S. Mowll
Quelle: Himalaya Journal Vol. 36, 1978/79, Seite 243-244


Geboren am:
1912
Gestorben am:
03.1978