Merrick Mary H. Miss

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Biografie:
Miss Mary H. Merrick (1894-1978)
'Polly', who died early this year aged 84, joined the Ladies' Alpine Club in 1937. She had 4 seasons in the Alps from 1934 to 1937 doing a number of the classic climbs in the Oberland, Valais and Chamonix areas. She was also a member of the American Alpine Club, and during the last war and the 1950s climbed in the Teton range, accomplishing some first and second ascents, and also with the Canadian Alpine Club, camping and climbing in the Rockies, based on Banff and Lake Louise. There are some attractive and characteristically humorous accounts of these expeditions in the LAC Journals of the time including one, in 1950, entitled 'Half Way up Popocatepetl' which indicates her endearing ability to extract pleasure from almost any mountain or travel situation. 1952 found her in Peru, 1959 in Colorado Springs. In her late seventies she walked from Zermatt to the Hörnli Hut!
Except for the war years Polly was able to visit Europe during the summer vacation most years. She was a school-teacher near Philadelphia, and lived in a happily converted stable among the gorgeous trees of Pennsylvania. Apart from climbing she was a good walker and an enterprising cyclist, much to the amazement of her American friends. Those who were fortunate enough to be invited to the enchanting family villa near Pistoia, will remember a gracious lady framed by the Tuscan Hills, never too far away from her beloved mountains.
Polly was always so much alive, so real and ageless, her multitudinous friends find it hard to believe that she has gone. Of all my mountaineering companions she was always among those it was most good to be with.
Marjorie Milsom
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 84, 1979, Seite 269


Geboren am:
1894
Gestorben am:
1978