Pettifer Michael

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Biografie:
gestorben an der Aiguille du Plan (Frankreich)

Michael Pettifer (1953-77)
Mike Pettifer will not be known to many members of the Club, as he was an aspirant member.
He started climbing whilst at school, but serious climbing did not begin until he went to Cambridge as an engineering student, in 1971. In the competitive atmosphere of the CUMC he quickly became competent on both British rock and Scottish ice. In 1973 he visited Saas Fee and Chamonix, and each year after that he went to the Alps for as long as he was able. Sometimes this was only a fortnight, but always he climbed whenever possible, on one occasion snatching an ascent of the Om N face when camp-site opinion pronounced it impossibly out of condition.
His preference was always for the more esoteric crags, and for loose and serious climbs which stirred his sense of adventure. He never let himself become a regular habituee of any one area, and his British achievements include routes as diverse as Carnivore, Vector and the Old Man of Hoy.
Mike's last alpine season had started well with a fast ascent of the Schmid route on the Matterhorn. He then came across to Chamonix, where he was killed in a fall whilst climbing unroped on the N face of the Aiguille du Plan. To those who knew him and climbed with him his early death leaves a scar that time will not quickly heal and memories of his dynamism that are a continuing inspiration.
Nick Tritton
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 83, 1978, Seite 271


Geboren am:
1953
Gestorben am:
1977