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Douglas Robert Hadow war ein britischer Bergsteiger der während des Abstiegs nach der Erstbesteigung des Matterhorns ums Leben kam.
Douglas Robert Hadow (30 May 1846[1][2] – 14 July 1865) was a British novice mountaineer who died on the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn.
Family
BearbeitenHadow was born in 1846 at 49 York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the son of Patrick Douglas Hadow (Chairman of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company) and Emma Harriett Nisbet (daughter of Robert Parry Nisbet, of Southbroom House, Wiltshire), who married at Southbroom on 28 January 1845.[3] Hadow's paternal great-grandfather was George Hadow, professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages at the University of St Andrews,[4] and one of his younger brothers was Frank Hadow, who won the Wimbledon championship in 1878.
Hadow was educated at Harrow School, where he and six of his brothers who also attended the school were known as the 'Harrow Hadows'.
First season in the Alps
BearbeitenIn 1865, at the age of nineteen, Hadow undertook his first trip to the Alps as a protégé to Charles Hudson, a clergyman from Skillington in Lincolnshire, and a leading advocate of guideless climbing. Together they made a swift ascent of Mont Blanc and a number of other climbs; these ascents – together with the backing of a climber of Hudson's stature – persuaded Edward Whymper that Hadow was a suitable companion for an attempt on the Matterhorn.
Whymper later wrote: Vorlage:Quote In 'A Modern View of the 1865 Accident', the Alpine Club president Capt. J. P. Farrar (1917–19) concurred with this positive estimation of Hadow's ability:Vorlage:Quote
Matterhorn accident
BearbeitenVorlage:See also During the first ascent of the Matterhorn on 14 July 1865, Hadow was, however, challenged by the technical difficulties presented by the mountain. Whymper noticed his inexperience after the party had traversed onto what he termed the 'north-west face' whilst ascending the mountain. In a piece published by The Times shortly after the accident, he wrote: Vorlage:Quote Hadow's slip on the descent of the mountain was the immediate cause of the accident.[5] He was the second on the rope as the party went down and he slipped not far from the summit, dragging three members of the party (Lord Francis Douglas, Michel Croz and Charles Hudson) with him down the north face of the mountain to their deaths (the three other members of the party – Whymper and Taugwalder father and son – were saved when the rope between them and Douglas snapped). Claire Engel comments: Vorlage:Quote
Hadow's body was recovered from the Matterhorn Glacier, and he was buried at the churchyard in Zermatt. One of Hadow's shoes can be seen in Zermatt's Matterhorn Museum,[6] together with the snapped rope and other relics of the climb.[7]
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- ↑ Burke, John, The Patrician Volume 1 (London, E. Churton, 1846) Births, Marriages, and Deaths (page 288) online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 10 April 2008)
- ↑ Index of Irish Deaths online at irelandoldnews.com (accessed 10 April 2008)
- ↑ Urban, Sylvanus, The Gentleman's Magazine for January to June 1845, pp 421–422 online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 10 April 2008)
- ↑ Hadow family tree at Wikimedia Commons (accessed 15 February 2009)
- ↑ Farrar notes, however, that '... the real cause of the accident was not the slip made by Hadow, nor the breaking of the rope, but the want of coherence in the "fortuitously" formed party. The great lesson to be learned from the occurrence is to undertake no serious expedition with a large party. 'A Modern View of the 1865 Accident', Alpine J, XXXII.
- ↑ http://swissalpin.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/ernstfall-am-matterhorn. Retrieved 10 April 2008. The text (in German) states 'The shoe appears to be in no state to tackle anything steeper than a flight of stairs.'
- ↑ The Matterhorn Zermatt Tourist Office. Retrieved 20 September 2009
