Medlycott Thomas Anthony Hutchings

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Biografie:
Thomas Anthony Hutchings Medlycott (1909-1970)
Anthony Medlycott, who died from a fall on a mountain walk in Wales, joined the Club in 1931. His qualification list showed a wide range of general Alpine climbing, including the Zmutt, but it is as an outstanding rock climber that his friends will remember him. He climbed frequently with his wife-herself a first-class rock climber-and also with his children. 'I had the pleasure, on occasion, of joining the family and in the earlier years of helping to introduce his daughters to the rocks.
I first met Anthony at our Easter parties at Wasdale in the thirties, where he would be thinking of Central Buttress on Scafell while some of us set our sights somewhat lower. After the war I often climbed with him in Wales and had many enjoyable weekends starting (appropriately, perhaps, as Anthony was an architect) on a Friday evening at the Doric Portico of the old Euston Station. I also climbed with him in the Dolomites and on the Engelhörner, when I owed to his leadership the best rock climbing I have been able to do. I was not with him on his classic Dolomite climbs but I remember some splendid days on the Sella Towers and a memorable ascent, and descent, of the Schmidt Kamin when iced rocks made the usual way off impossible.
Anthony was a lover of music and himself a keen organist. Whether or not (as we used to suspect) he wore his surplice over his climbing clothes during the last of the Easter services, he certainly lost no time on Easter Sunday evening in getting on his way to the hills!
He was a calm and delightful companion, both on and off the mountains, with an outlook and opinions which often revealed a surprising and refreshing unorthodoxy. His quiet modesty and unassuming manner perhaps concealed from casual acquaintances his underlying strength of character and the climbing skill and determination which enab1ed people like myself to follow him up a VS.
H. R. Herbert
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 78, 1973, Seite 289-290


Geboren am:
1909
Gestorben am:
1970