Dadson Robert Stephen

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Biografie:
Robert Stephen Dadson 1908·1986
I would like to contribute a word or two about my old friend Robert Dadson. From my contacts with him, I gathered that he worked at the National Physical Laboratory as a specialist on Sound and that, as a result of that, he had contacts with my own profession, medicine, in hearing matters.
But I know Robert as a mountaineer and he was a competent one, not a confident one. More competent, really, than he thought he was. Although I climbed with him both at home and abroad, he never seemed really happy unless with a guided party.
I climbed with him in the Dolomites where we did two nice routes at San Martino on the Cima Rossa and the Pala di San Martino, both of which he ascended with eclat. And many years ago we were in the Julian Alps together, where we ascended Triglav.
Robert was a great friend of the late Bryan Donkin, our sometime splendid Hon Secretary. The two of them were great continental travellers and used to motor out to all 'parts of the Alps year after year, where my wife and I would sometimes join them; and what good company they were! But Robert, often distrustful of himself, would leave me to go off with Bryan with whom, on one such occasion, I did a traverse of the Piz Palii and ascended the Piz Bernina.
Occasionally we would pull Robert's leg when travelling with him because he took his car, a magnificent old Sunbeam-Talbot, rather seriously. And once we broke down on the Kirkstone Pass and while he was fiddling about under the bonnet, Bryan naughtily turned to us and said 'now watch him give himself a shock'. But it was all good clean fun.
Those were days when we all enjoyed our trips to the Alps, even though not always doing the very big things. Robert Dadson was certainly a devotee of the alpine scene and a constant traveller therein. Many a pleasant moment have I spent with him on his summer-time alpine travels.
Charles Warren
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 92, 1987, Seite 295


Geboren am:
1908
Gestorben am:
1986