Kemsley Freda

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Biografie:
abgestürzt an der Dent Herens

Freda Kemsley (1920-1978)
Freda Kemsley, who with her husband was killed on the Dent d'Herens in late August, was elected a member of the Ladies' Alpine Club in 1962, with a record which showed an equal love of mountain travel as of mountain climbing. With John Kemsley-they always climbed as a very self-sufficient pair-she had been all over the Alps, from Monte Viso, to the Tyrol Typical of their holidays was their 1966 journey from near the St Gotthard to Täsch, described in a lively article for the LAC Journal for 1967, “Another Haute Route”. On this trip they climbed Monte Leone, the Alphubel and the Allalinhorn; when next year they traversed the Oberland from the Grimsel to the Jungfraujoch they climbed the Oberaarhorn, Finsteraarhorn, Jungfrau and Mönch. Freda's pleasure in peaks was matched by her pleasure in passes, expressed here in her own words; 'It is this longing for the unfamiliar, that glimpse of the unknown on the other side of the pass, that urges us each year to traverse the mountains instead of working from a centre. For the Eric Shiptons of this world, adventure lurks in far Rung and unexplored corners of the earth. For us, the middle-aged commuter and his helpmate, the yearning for it can be satisfied only by drawing a line with a finger across a map in the winter and following it across the hills in boots in the summer, ripae ulterioris amore.'
Janet Carleton
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 84, 1979, Seite 268


Geboren am:
1920
Gestorben am:
08.1978