Nogare Ronald Dalle

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Biografie:
geboren in Adelaide (Australien)
gestorben am Kilzikaya/Taurus (Türkei)

Ronald Dalle Nogare (1931-1978)
Ronald Dalle Nogare was killed by stonefall while descending the open slopes of Kilzikaya (3723m) in the central Taurus mountains on 5 August 1978. He was born and educated in Adelaide, Australia, and was an outstanding undergraduate at the University there. He had a great interest in the Classics and finally pursued Mathematics, came to England and became an understanding and capable teacher to undergraduates and graduates of the University of London. I was one of many students who are greatly indebted to him, not so much because he coached us through exams and not only because he was a great mentor, forcing us to think and question and widen our horizons, but more for the kindness and generosity and friendship that he extended to us in our student days.
His interest in mountaineering developed from the early 1960s and I well remember the university and college club meets which he joined, particularly in N Wales. We always seemed to have appalling weather and not a few epics, but with Ran in the party spirits were never low for long. However his main passion was for the bigger mountains and he made regular trips to the Alps from 1963 onwards. He loved the great snow ridges and long traverses. The unusual also appealed to him, like climbing the Matterhorn for the Centenary in bad weather or Mont Blanc in a weekend from London - and narrowly missing the plane to return him in time for his 9.00 am Monday morning lecture because he was held up by a brass band on the road below Chamonix.
It was remarkable but typical of Ran that in recent years he should relinquish his career, scholar that he was, to become only recently an established and able Probation Officer to the Inner London Probation Service. His abilities as a teacher were now diverted to winning the trust and confidence of the less fortunate who had been referred to him as a Probation Officer. They in particular have lost a friend, perhaps, to many, the only friend they have known.
Nick Longland
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 85, 1980, Seite 261-262


Geboren am:
1931
Gestorben am:
05.08.1978