Booth Henry

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Biografie:
Henry Booth d.1984
I first met Henry Booth at Oxford in, I think, 1920 or 1921 where he joined the Mountaineering Club which I had revived. His family owned the Booth Steamship Co at Liverpool.
In 1922 he attended meets of the OUMC at Pen-y-Gwryd in January and at Easter, and then at the end of June joined my parents and myself at Pralognan in the Tarentaise. With a porter, my father, Henry and I went to the Felix Faure hut, and Henry and I prospected the route up the Grande Casse. We were well trained by Badminton then. Next day, without the porter, we climbed the mountain and I remember cutting a lot of steps up snow in excellent condition. My father went back to my mother at Pralognan, but Henry and I left the Felix Faure hut and on the following day he and I went up a lonely glen and over the Col de la Laisse till we found a lovely campsite (I had a small tent with me that season) just below the Grande Motte, which we climbed the next day before going down to Val d'Isere. That week the same party climbed the Tsanteleina and the Grande Sassiere. Henry was also on the OUMC meet later that year, when we all went over to the Victor Emmanuel hut, and he was in my party on the Grand Paradiso.
Henry was elected to the Club in 1923, when he had a long season in the Alps, and I remember that he joined one or two of the Alpine Meets I ran in the later 1920s, but I fear I lost touch with him later on and never met him again.
Herbert Carr
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 91, 1986, Seite 267


Gestorben am:
1984