Odell Gwladys Mona

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Biografie:
Gwladys Mona Odell (1891-1977)
An early member, since 1921, of the Ladies' Alpine Club, Mona died, after a long painful illness in Hospital in Derbyshire on 29 March 1977. Daughter of the Rector of Beaumaris, she early developed a close love of the hills and began her rock-climbing experience on her neighbour mountains with Prof Noel Odell when he was courting her and stationed at Oeganwy. Those were the golden days when even The Foxglove Gully on Tryfan or the Trinity Gullies on wintry Snowdon were things to dream of. This was the start of an uncommonly wide-ranging series of visits by the pair to mountains in almost all parts of the world. They include Chamonix 1919; Zermatt 1925; Canadian Rockies 1927; Norway, Jotunheim 1929; Northern Labrador 1931; NE Greenland 1933; Skye 1935; Highlands 1937; British Columbia and Washington 1948; Alaska, St Elias Range 1949; New Zealand: Southern Alps 1950-56; Australia: Mt Kosciusko 1955; Hawaii: rambles amongst volcanoes 1956; Pakistan, Swat and Kashmir (Kolahoi Glacier) 1961. A light and sound rock-climber, steady on ice, she and her husband achieved many first ascents and a fascinatingly varied collection of expeditions through a period during which travel was not packaged as it is now. She also made her independent treks-along the Singalila Ridge, (1938) for example. As a companion she was blythe, buoyant and enduring. Her quickness and presence of mind could save the party from a serious accident as with an early episode in the Ivy Chimney, Tryfan. On her tombstone in Harlech is inscribed in Welsh; 'She loved and climbed her native hills as well as the high mountains of many other lands.'
Dorothy Pilley Richards
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 83, 1978, Seite 270-271


Geboren am:
1891
Gestorben am:
29.03.1977