Pallin Hugo Nicolaus

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Biografie:
Hugo Nicolaus Pallin (1880-1953)
LT.-COL. H. N. Pallin was a distinguished explorer of Swedish Lapland and much of his climbing had been done in Polar or near Polar districts. A good many of his climbs were made in winter, including the first winter ascent of Kebnekaise, the highest peak in Swedish Lapland. He described his climbing in these regions in his book, Kebnekaise (1927).
In 1920- 21 he went as cartographer on the Swedish expedition to West Patagonia, under Professor Otto Nordenskjold, and made several first ascents in the neighbourhood of Kelly inlet. In 1922-23, and again in 1928, he led expeditions of his own to Spitzbergen, and in 1936 he visited Western Greenland, and took the opportunity to do some climbing, which he described in an article in the ALPINE JOURNAL (vol. 49, p. 190 ). He was the author of numerous articles on mountaineering in Scandinavia in the year-books of the Touring Society of Sweden, and he acted for some years as Editor of Ultima Thule, the year-book of the Lapland Alpine Club, of which he was also the Secretary. He was elected a member of the Alpine Club in 1929.
An officer in the Royal Engineers, Swedish Army, he became Professor of Engineering at the Teknik Universitesi, Istanbul. As with so many other Continental members, all contact with him was lost during the war, and our first news of him was in January 1949, when he handsomely paid nine years of back subscriptions that he had been unable to transmit hitherto. He maintained· a keen interest in the Club and was one of the earliest to send us, on June 3 last (some three months before he died on September 18), on behalf of the Lapland mountaineers, his congratulations on the ascent of Everest.
T. S. Blakeney
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 59. Nr. 288, 1954, Seite 338


Geboren am:
1880
Gestorben am:
18.09.1953