Pines Arnold

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Biografie:
gestorben in Tryfan/North Wales (Großbritannien)

Arnold Pines (1928-1981)
Or Arnold Pines was tragically killed on 15 November 1981 while scrambling on Tryfan in North Wales. He was with a mall group on Y Gully when he apparently lost his balance and fell about 300ft. He started climbing at the age of 39 with solo ascents of a dozen 3000m peaks in Carinthia and the Uri Alps. An ascent of Mount Fuji and other peaks followed while lecturing in Japan in 1969, and the following summer Arnold's appetite for mountaineering was further whetted in the course of a very full holiday when he climbed over 30 Austrian peaks. I met him in 1971 when he joined John Millar and myself for a traverse of the Haute Route from Zermatt to Chamonix, with a number of climbs en route, and this proved to be a kind of launch pad for numerous expeditions further afield. In the next 6 years Arnold climbed in Kulu, the Hindu Kush, the Ruwenzori and Mount Kenya, the Dauphine and Chamonix again, on Nanda Devi, in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru, in the Sierra Nevada in Spain, on Mexican volcanoes, and in Eritrea, Sinai, Sardinia, Greece and Portugal, as well as regular rock climbing in Britain up to VS standard. At an age when many climbers find excuses for reduced activity Arnold discovered in mountaineering a new lease of life, and his tremendous enthusiasm and optimism was an inspiration and delight to all who met him.
His professional life, as a distinguished consultant specializing in Respiratory Medicine at Ware Park Hospital, he tended to keep separate from his climbing, although he brought a critical eye to bear on the problems of Mountain Medicine, with contributions to the Himalayan Journal, the British Journal of Diseases of the Chest, the British Medical Journal and the Lancet.
Arnold's small craggy figure, quiet voice, ready smile and modest manner concealed considerable determination and strength of character. He was one of the most thoughtful, cultured and agreeable companions, and his election to the AC two years before his death was a source of great joy to him. His many friends will want to join me in extending heartfelt sympathy to his wife Jose and family in their sad loss.
Tony Smythe
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 87, 1982, Seite 269-270


Geboren am:
1928
Gestorben am:
15.11.1981