Albert Mountain Award
The Albert Mountain Award is an award given by the King Albert I Memorial Foundation (founded in 1993, based in Zurich) to people or organizations for extraordinary services in the alpine world, including a. in science, art, social projects, accident prevention, environmental protection and training.
The prize has been awarded every two years since 1994. At first it was called the King Albert Mountain Award. It commemorates the Belgian King Albert I (1875-1934), who was an excellent mountaineer and climber and who fell to his death on February 17, 1934 near Marche-les-Dames on the Rocher Inaccesible in Belgium from unexplained circumstances. It was called Le Roi Alpiniste . The award was initiated in 1993 by Walter Amstutz , once the spa director of St. Moritz , there and in Pontresina the award ceremony takes place alternately.
Award winners (selection)
- Kurt Albert
- Werner Bätzing
- Catherine Destivelle
- Jürg Frischknecht (together with Ursula Bauer )
- Augusto Gansser
- Elizabeth Hawley
- John Hunt
- Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
- Christian Koerner
- Erhard Loretan
- Bruno Messerli
- Walter Niedermayr
- Oswald Oelz
- Albert Precht
- Wanda Rutkiewicz
- Pit Schubert
- Swiss Alpine Museum
- Stephen Venables
- Emil Zopfi
- Lois Hechenblaikner
- Swiss National Park
- Silvia Metzeltin
- Bradford Washburn
- Jürgen Winkler
The Board of Trustees consists of: Dominik Siegrist (President), Frank-Urs Müller (Secretary), Daniel Anker, Alexandra Gozon, Wilfried Haeberli, Beat Hächler, Marco Volken.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.king-albert.ch/de/stiftung
- ↑ Walter Amstutz u. a .: The King Albert I Memorial Foundation. AS Verlag, Zurich 2012