MacRobert Harry

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Biografie:
Harry MacRobert (1880-1954)
Harry MacRobert was· a skilled mountaineer, skilled in all the branches of our sport. He brought to all its problems a dry humour which was irresistible and he was as kindly as he was efficient.
His leading of a party in snow and mist was unbelievable ; he himself attributed it to a very strict attention to detail of map and contour and physical feature, and it was uncanny how he brought his party through.
The writer was with him only one season climbing in the Alps, but for years we climbed the Scottish hills, skied there too, and for as many years skied together in the Bernese Oberland. We were both too antiquated to take kindly to the Piste form of ski-ing when it came, but all the hills and ridges of Adelboden and Lenk and Saanenmoser knew us well.
Two great days with him come to memory. One, when he and Harry Walker and I descended the north-east Buttress: of the. Ben in icy winter conditions, MacRobert coming last on the rope and letting us down at long last to the darkness of the Allt a Mhuilinn and the trudge home in the moonlight and the snow. And the next, the Dept Perroc, near Arolla, again in foul conditions, and that fizzy 'Asti Spumanti' stuff when we reached the hotel.
Everything Harry took up he did well, and applied his abundant common sense to every problem. He was also keen on sailing. He and I found that when we got a bit old for climbing, then ski-ing where one could temper the wind to the shorn lamb, fitted into the picture when real mountaineering did not seem possible.
He was elected to the Alpine Club in 1914 and became a Vice-President in 1943-4. He read two papers to the Club, 'Climbing in Scotland' March 7, 1933, and' Ski Mountaineering in Scotland,' March 6, 1943, and he contributed in other ways to the A .. J. by obituaries and reviewing of books. He edited the second edition of the S.M.C. Guide, The Central Highlands.
Harry MacRobert was a man with a wide circle of friends, all of whom will sorely miss him.
C. W. Walker
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 60. Nr. 290, 1955, Seite 155-156


Geboren am:
1880
Gestorben am:
1954