Hettie Dyhrenfurth
Harriet Pauline "Hettie" Dyhrenfurth (born November 16, 1892 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , German Empire , † October 28, 1972 in Orange , California , United States ) was a German, later Swiss mountaineer.
In 1934, when she climbed the western summit of Sia Kangri (7315 m), she set a world record for women that lasted for 20 years.
For her Himalayan expeditions in 1930 and 1934, she and her then husband Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth , from whom she was divorced in 1936 , were awarded the Prix olympique d'alpinisme Olympic mountaineering prize at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin .
She had three children, including Norman Dyhrenfurth .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hettie Dyhrenfurth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hettie Dyhrenfurth in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XII. Edition of Degeners who is it? Berlin 1955, p. 218.
- ↑ Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck, Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women . Dietz, Bonn 2000, p. 89. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
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| SURNAME | Dyhrenfurth, Hettie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dyhrenfurth, Harriet Pauline |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German, later Swiss mountaineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1972 |
| Place of death | Orange , California |