Allen Carpé

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Allen Carpé (lost in 1932 on Mount McKinley , Alaska ) was a mountaineer . He participated in the first ascents of several mountains, including the 5959 meter high Mount Logan , the highest mountain in Canada and the second highest on the North American continent.

Carpé worked as an electrical engineer in research at AT&T . In 1925 he took part in an expedition led by Albert MacCarthy . It led to the previously unclimbed Mount Logan. Canada's highest mountain measures 5959 meters, making it the second highest on its continent, one of the Seven Second Summits . Other expedition participants were William Wasbrough Foster , Fred Lambart , Norman H. Read and Andrew Taylor . They reached the summit on June 23, 1925.

Carpé subsequently took part in other expeditions in the Elias chain , including the first ascent of Mount Bona in 1930 with Terris Moore and Andrew Taylor and of Mount Fairweather again the following year with Terris Moore.

In 1932 he disappeared during an expedition on Mount McKinley . There he wanted to measure cosmic rays together with Theodore Koven for Professor AH Compton from the University of Chicago . A subsequent expedition found Carpé and Koven's camp abandoned and Koven frozen nearby. It is believed that Carpé fell into a crevasse. His body was never found. Carpé and Koven are considered to be the first victims in the history of ascent of Mount McKinley.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allen Carpé Lantern Slides from Mt Logan 1925. Retrieved May 6, 2011 .
  2. ↑ 1925 Climb. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011 ; accessed on May 31, 2020 (English / French).
  3. ^ Chic Scott: Pushing the limits: the story of Canadian mountaineering . 2000, p. 96 ff .
  4. ↑ Mount Bona in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  5. ↑ Mount Fairweather in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
  6. ^ Camp where Koven was found near Muldrow Glacier, 1932. In: Alaska's Digital Archives. Retrieved May 6, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Looking for Carpe. LaVoy, 1932. In: Alaska's Digital Archives. Retrieved May 6, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Carpé, Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION climber
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1932
Place of death Mount McKinley