Parry Charles Wynn

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Biografie:
CHARLES WYNN PARRY
1901 - 1960
Charles Parry was one of those unfortunate people whose promising climbing career was cut short by a serious accident. He was hit in 1929 while descending from the Brenva side of Mont Blanc in bad weather, when climbing with Frank Smythe and Sandy Harrison. His life was saved by a difficult mountain rescue operation, but his back was severely injured. He resumed climbing on a modest scale, mostly with guides (although in 1934 he traversed the Matterhorn with Smythe and Macphee, and got caught in a severe storm near the top), but he later developed a psoas abscess. Although he had the best orthopaedic attention in Oxford and London (his father had been a well-loved surgeon in Glasgow) he eventually lost a leg and indeed never fully recovered his health.
Despite a long illness, gradually getting more painful, Charles ahvays remained cheerful. Deprived of his main interests of mountaineering, golf and playing the organ, he found many outlets besides his job as a schoolmaster and undertook social activities in his district of Somerset, particularly in the golf club. With a car adapted for a limbless driver he was able to get about and even attended a Scottish Mountaineering Club dinner.
He joined the A.C. in 1934 and the S.M.C. in 1926 and edited Volume XX of the S.M.C. Journal. His Alpine season of 1928 included the Aiguilles Rouges and Pigne d'Arolla, the Dent Blanche, and the first guideless ascent of the 2000-ft. rock rib ( arete Jenkins) from the Seilon glacier to the top of Mont Blanc de Seilon and, later, the Zmutt Ridge of the Matterhorn, all guideless, and he had other equally good seasons.
On my last visit some three years ago he seemed happy in his necessarily circumscribed niche, and the news of his death comes as a sad shock to his old climbing friends of more than 30 years ago.
G. G. MACPHEE.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 65, 1960, Seite 268


Geboren am:
1901
Gestorben am:
1960