Roberts David

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Biografie:
Roberts David, * in Snowdonai (Großbritanien), + Wirral
Seit 1930 Mitglied im Climbers' Club.
David Roberts war ein regelmäßiger Besucher von Helyg (Wales) und oft kletterte er im Lake District und in Schottland. Er kletterte 1934 zum ersten Mal in die Alpen und besuchte sie jährlich bis zum Ausbruch des Krieges.Einige seiner Besteigungen unternahm er ohne Führer mit Anthony Robinson, und zu anderen Zeiten waren seine Führer H. Pollinger oder Alexander Burgener.Seine vielleicht beste Besteigung war der Ostgrats des Weisshorns.
Beg.Weisshorn-Ostgrat,4505m, (Walliser Alpen)

Gerd Schauer, Isny im Allgäu


geboren in Snowdonai (Großbrittanien)

David Roberts 1906-1974
David Roberts, who died suddenly last May at his home in the Wirral, had been a member of the Club since 1958.
Born in Snowdonia and Welsh to the core, he was educated at Bethesda County School and University College, Bangor. His subject was Chemistry, his Professor was Kennedy Orton, one of the pioneers of climbing in North Wales, although the contacts between them were wholly academic.
Those were the days when few Welshmen were to be seen in their own mountains, and not until he was working in the Wirral as an industrial chemist did David take up climbing. He became a member of the Climbers' Club in 1930 and was a regular frequenter of Helyg, where he had a great reputation as an early riser; in addition he climbed in the Lake District and Scotland.
He first went to the Alps in 1934, making annual visits up to the outbreak of war. Some of his ascents were made guideless with Anthony Robinson, and at other times his guides were H. Pollinger or Alexander Burgener. Perhaps the best of the expeditions was an ascent of the E Ridge of the Weisshorn, and this is described at length in Robinson's own climbing memoirs, 'Alpine Roundabout'.
It was typical of David that he allowed the war years to pass, and the claims of family life to lessen, before becoming a candidate for the AC. H. R. C. Carr, writing in support, commended his modest unassuming ways. His interest in climbing and mountaineering was shared by his wife, Cicely, who was a member of the Pinnacle Club.
In recent years, after his retirement from Lever Bros, David became a vigorous and forceful personality on what was to him a new front -the defence of the mountain areas of North Wales. The ravages of the apathetic years, imperceptible to many, are all too evident to those who knew Snowdonia in the 1920s. Spurred to action at a time when so much had already been lost, David served the BMC North Wales Committee both as a wise counsellor and as an active worker.
It is all to easy, in the years of retirement, merely to mark changes for the worse. David was not content with an armchair role, and the spirit and energy which he devoted to combat encroachment on amenities in Snowdonia will be long remembered.
Wales was to him both a source of strength and a cause to which to devote himself. The Welsh language took its place as naturally and as freely in our last conversation earlier this year as it did when we first met as fellow-students 50 years ago. So it is wholly appropriate that this tribute should end with a few words in that language.
J. Llywelyn Jones
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 80, 1975, Seite 302


Geboren am:
1906
Gestorben am:
05.1974