Hope Richard Frederick

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Biografie:
Richard Frederick Hope (1901 – 1964)
The Hon. Richard Hope was elected to the Club in December, 1936. He had ten Alpine seasons to his credit, having climbed extensively in Austria, in the Mont Blanc group and in the Pennines. In his 1936 season, his best, one of his companions was Wilfrid Noyce. Most of his climbs were guideless. I only made one Alpine climb with him the Grandes Jorasses from Courmayeur (guided), but we did a number of climbs together in Wales.
Shortly after his election to the Club, in January, 1937, he met with a serious accident. We were climbing the Central Chimney on Lliwedd when he was hit on the head by a stone dislodged by a rucksack which I was pulling up to the 'Summer House'. The stone inflicted a serious wound giving him a depressed fracture of the skull and puncturing the membrane covering the brain. He was out of sight some eight feet below me, but fortunately another party led by M. G. Bradley was near at hand and Bradlev gave him first aid, which probably saved his life. We did not realise at the time how serious the wound was and with remarkable courage Dick Hope climbed down the lower part of the climb and walked the two miles back to Peny-Pass. I immediately took him to the doctor in Llanberis, who diagnosed the serious nature of the injury and sent him to Bangor hospital, where he was operated on that night. He made a successful recovery, but never climbed again.
As a climber, Dick was a good average performer, who loved mountains for their own sake. He was a cheerful·and pleasant companion, a good second on the rope and was rapidly becoming a sound leader when his climbing career was so abruptly terminated. His untimely death at the age of sixty-two is a loss which will be felt keenly by his many friends.
T. A. H. Peacocke
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 69, 1964, Seite 321-322


Geboren am:
1901
Gestorben am:
1964