Dunsheath Joyce

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Biografie:
Mrs Joyce Dunsheath (1902-1976)
Mrs Joyce Dunsheath, nee Cissie Providence Houchen, who died on 30 July 1976 aged 74, became a member of the Ladies Alpine Club in 1951 and subsequently of the Alpine Club. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1956 and served on its Council from 1965 to 1968 as well as on others of its committees. She represented the Society on the Alpine Club Library Council for several years until she had to resign for domestic reasons. She took a degree in Modern Languages at Bedford College, University of London in 1924 and a BSc degree when in her 60s as well as 'A' level Russian.
In 1938 she married as his second wife Dr Percy Dunsheath with whom she shared a love of travel and mountaineering. She always, when accompanying him to international technological congresses abroad or when at her own specialized meetings, took the opportunity of seeing the surrounding country and if possible its mountains. Thus for example, as a result of a meeting of the International Eleetrotechnical Commission in Moscow, she was able to climb Mt Elbruz in the Caucasus and when as President of the British Federation of University Women she attended a meeting of the international body in Tokyo she visited the Japanese Alps.
Most continents are represented in the list of her climbs in various numbers of the LAC journal. The Canadian Rockies, the Himalayas, Iran, Peru, East Africa and Romania are among the many areas in which she climbed. In 1956 she organized an expedition to explore the Bara-Shigri glacier in the Kulu, Lahul-Spiti district of the Himalaya with Hilda Reid, Eileen Gregory and Frances Delany, driving from this country to India, and in 1961 she went with Eleanor Baillie to Afghanistan via Iran where they climbed Demavend. In 1964 she led the first Indian Women's Himalayan Expedition to Mrigthuni in the Garwhal region. She began her mountaineering career in the Lake District.
Joyce Dunsheath's love of mountains and long association with the Girl Guide movement were brought together in the camp she arranged in the French Alps in 1962 to encourage the young to adventure in the hills. This camp was the pattern of many such projects which owe their origin to her.
Besides her other activities she played the bassoon and the Rute with the local orchestra. She was a generous and kindly person, always willing to help when help was needed, and an enthusiastic gardener.
She wrote 3 books-Mountains and Memsahibs 1956 with the other members of the expedition to the Bara-Shigri glacier, Guest of the Soviets 1959 and Afghan Quest 1961 and a number of articles in the LAC journal.
Joyce Lancaster Jones
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 84, 1979, Seite 266-267


Geboren am:
1902
Gestorben am:
30.07.1976