Coddington Eustace

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Biografie:
Eustace Coddington
Eustace Coddington, who died last November in his eighty-ninth year, was elected to the Alpine Club in December, 1919. He was not a great mountaineer, but a great lover of mountains and he used to spend nearly the whole of his summer holiday in the Valais. He was handicapped by cartilage trouble in one knee, the result of a football injury, and had to wear a special steel support. This prevented him from doing difficult climbs and made him feel that he must always climb with a guide on any serious expedition, lest he should be a liability to an amateur party. Lack of financial resources prevented him from doing more than two or three major expeditions each year. He was a keen supporter of the A.C. and was a frequent visitor to the Club until age made the journey too difficult. He made a useful contribution to the A.J. entitled 'A Hydrographic Approach to the Alps', published in vols. 57 and 58, which was praised by Dr. Longstaff.
I first met him at Fionnay in August, 1928, and he took me on an expedition to the Rosa Blanche, my first 10,000 ft. mountain. I remember well starting in the early morning at what seemed to me a snail's pace, but after continuing steadily for four hours I was panting for a halt. We were denied the summit, as an insecurely bridged crevasse barred the way and time and an approaching thunderstorm prevented further efforts. I did not reach this summit until twenty years later, this time on skis with a party of schoolboys in the depth of winter.
Eustace Coddington had a rugged exterior, but a warm and friendly heart. He was senior Science master at St. John's School, Leatherhead, for thirty-eight years and a housemaster for much of this time. A schoolmaster of the old school, he was loved and respected and a source of Inspiration to many.
T. A. H. Peacocke
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 72, 1967, Seite 356