Alois Strickler
Alois Strickler (born December 20, 1924 in Baar ; † June 8, 2019 in Baar) was a Swiss mountaineer and a pioneer of the north faces in the Alps .
Life
Alois Strickler grew up with five siblings in Baar in the canton of Zug . After compulsory schooling, he completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic. He then found work in French-speaking Switzerland, where he stayed for nineteen years. As a teenager he was already fascinated by the mountains and together with his brother he went to the mountains, where the two of them made their first climbing experiences on their own.
From 1948 Alois Strickler worked in Morges . He climbed the Diablerets there with work colleagues . Soon there were big tours with well-known rope partners. Strickler was a member of the SAC Les Diablerets section. At the age of 40 he got his diploma as a mountain guide . The renowned Groupe de Haute Montagne de Lausanne (GHML) made him an honorary member.
Alois Strickler has been on expedition with Max Eiselin several times . On one of these expeditions in the Hindu Kush ( Afghanistan ) they made three first ascents in 1963 : the 5000 m high Urup, the Shah (6550 m) and the Urgend (7038 m). Strickler was three more times in Afghanistan and also in Nepal and Peru .
In 1967 Alois Strickler returned to German-speaking Switzerland, where he lived with his sister Margrit in Unterägeri . For years she was his reliable rope partner. Together they climbed most of the renowned climbing routes in Switzerland and the Dolomites . After his sister died in 2009, Alois Strickler moved to the St. Anna retirement home, also in Unterägeri.
In December 2018, the alpine journalist Daniel Anker congratulated Alois Strickler on his 94th birthday in the monthly magazine of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) “The Alps”. He referred to the ascent of the six classic north faces, which Strickler was the first Swiss and second alpinist to ever successfully complete.
Alois Strickler died on June 8, 2019 after a short illness.
North wall ascents
Reading Gaston Rébuffat's Étoiles et tempêtes (1954) awakened Alois Strickler's desire to climb the six great north faces of the Alps ; In 1954, Strickler had already done three of these tours, and by 1962 he had climbed the other three north faces:
- North face of the Great Zinne with Wisi Hilber, 1951
- North face of the Dru with Wisi Hilber, 1952
- Cassin route in the northeast face of Piz Badile with Wisi Hilber, 1952
- Matterhorn north face with Fredy Hächler, 1959
- Eiger north face with Leo Schlömmer , 1961
- Walker pillar in the north face of the Grandes Jorasses with Fredy Hächler, 1962
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alois Strickler's bereavement. In: todesangeboteportal.ch. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Bruno Bollinger: Alois Strickler. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
- ↑ a b https://www.strickler.info/images/strickler/portraits/4861.pdf
- ^ Groupe de Haute Montagne de Lausanne, List des membres d'honneur. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Max Eiselin : Wild Hindu Kush . Orell Füssli Verlag, 1965, OCLC 83127007 .
- ↑ Article on Alois Strickler by Daniel Anker in Die Alpen , No. 12, December 2018 ISSN 0002-6336
- ↑ Alfred Hächler: Summiteer . Orell Füssli Verlag, 1975, ISBN 978-3-280-00773-0 .
- ↑ Toni Hiebeler : Eigerwand - Death climbs with it . Wilhelm Limpert-Verlag, 1963, OCLC 906738109 .
- ↑ Heinrich Harrer : The book from the Eiger . Penguin, 1988, ISBN 978-3-7016-2290-0 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strickler, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mountaineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baar |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 2019 |
| Place of death | Baar |