Pearl Susan Warren

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Biografie:
Susan Warren Pearl, d. 1983
Susan Warren Pearl, Roddie to her friends, died on 24 March 1983, having been very ill for two years, a time which she faced with enormous courage, cheerfulness and determination.
Roddie came to the Alpine Club as a member of the Ladies Alpine Club which she had joined in 1960 and served as a Committee member in 1966. Her great love of mountains took her to many corners of the Alps and, indeed, of the world. She spent many summers in the Alps walking and climbing, including the traverse of Mont Blanc and of the Obergabelhorn and Wellenkuppe from the Rothorn Hut with the Zermatt guide Alex Perren. In 1969 Roddie, Kenneth King and I trekked in Nepal to the Everest Base Camp and a few years later to Point Lenana, the third peak of Mt. Kenya.
However, it was chiefly as a skimountaineer that she enjoyed her mountains. She was a firstclass skier on the piste, ofT-piste, in slush or on ice; nothing worried her. She knew se Moritz well and skied often, too, in Zermatt and Verbier with an impressive list of winter ski tours in those areas. Among these with Ken she did the Haute Route from Saas Fee to Zermatt and also the Zermatt to Chamonix section. From Chamonix they also did the Trois Cols to Argentiere, and back in Zermatt, the ascents of the Breithorn and Rimpfischhorn. With Lotti and Eric Warburg, Ken and Roddie did the Silvretta and Piz Palü, and attempted both Mont Blanc and the Grand Combin only to be thwarted on those two occasions by too much snow and bad weather. In the fifties she, Ken and the Warburgs skied many times together in Austria touring in the Stubai Alps and in the Oetztal and Sellrain.
She was talented in so many ways - a fine golfer and tennis player and an outstanding pianist, but it was not only in the field of sport or in the arts at which she shone. Her warmth, generosity and kindness were reflected in everything she did in life and her sense ofhumour and infectious laugh are unforgettable to all of us who had so much fun and so many happy times with her. Her sense ofdedication was total and she did a lot ofvoluntary work, her main interest being with the American Aid Society for which she worked tirelessly for many years and of which she was Vice-President.
Roddie was beloved by young and old alike. Children adored her because they sensed that she adored them and those a little older knew her as a very special person. Her going leaves a big hole in life for all her many friends and colleagues who will miss her more than words can say.
Lady Elizabeth Greenacre
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 89, 1984, Seite 268


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24.03.1983