Hoeman John Vincent

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Biografie:
John Vincent Hoeman 1936-1969
Vin Hoeman, who was elected to the Club in 1968, lost his life in the avalanche which overwhelmed seven members of Boyd Everett's expedition to Dhaulagiri in April 1969 (p 197 above). He was one of the most active of the small group of mountaineers who are lucky enough to live and work in Alaska. For Vin, this was no accident. He managed to get the U.S. Army to send him there during his military service in 1961-2, to teach mountaineering and test equipment at extremely low temperatures. Thereafter, he paid repeated visits (his list of climbs in his application for membership of the A.C. is a long one, and at one point merely mentions 'many first ascents') until he was able to settle in Anchorage in 1965.
Devoted as he was to Alaska (see his 'Alaska mountain advertisement' in A.J. 74 243), he was far from being a narrow specialist. Biologist and writer by profession, he was interested in deserts, in caves, the study of birds and other wild life. His climbing ranged far afield-Chimborazo, Huascaran, Ben Nevis, Mexican volcanoes, Aconcagua, the Alps, Iceland-as well as the St. Elias range and many other areas in the U.S.A. He was a man of great energy, which he applied not only to climbing but to the recording of climbs, to research into mountaineering history and to work for mountaineering organisations.
His death leaves us the poorer. Our sympathy goes to his wife, Grace, with whom he had done many climbs in three continents during the short time they had been married, and who is continuing his valuable work on the new guidebook to Alaska.
Michael Westmacott
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 75, 1970, Seite 332-333


Geboren am:
1936
Gestorben am:
04.1969