Ambros Supersaxo

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Ambros Supersaxo (around 1900)

Ambros Supersaxo (born December 17, 1853 in Saas-Fee , † January 26, 1932 there ) was a Swiss mountain guide who carried out numerous inspections, especially in the Valais Alps, with English mountaineers and tourists of the era.

Services (selection)

Ambros Supersaxo was born as the youngest of 14 children of the castellan and Grand Councilor Aloys Supersaxo and Anna Maria, née Imseng. In 1871 his mountain guide career began, which took him to almost all the peaks of the Valais Alps, but other areas of the western Alps were also among his goals, including the peaks of the Mont Blanc group . Although the rough development of the Alps was almost complete at that time, he also managed numerous first ascents.

  • 1880 inspection of the southeast ridge of the Tête de Valpelline with the English tourist John Taylor
  • 1881 Supersaxo JH Wicks led through the rock and ice wall in a combined tour Testa del Leone (Tête du Lion) by today Schönbielhütte from
  • 1882 he succeeded with WW Graham, the first ascent of the eastern ridge and ascent of the Südlenzspitzen -Westwand descent
  • In 1883 he was the first to climb the Egginer from the Saas side with the famous English mountaineer Henry Seymour King
  • In the summer of 1885, Supersaxo was out and about in the Chamonix and Courmayeur area. On July 30th, he and his colleagues Aloys Anthamatten and Emil Rey made the first ascent of Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey together with HS King
  • on August 25, 1885 he was the first to reach Mont Collon via the east face together with his colleagues Maurer and Kaufmann as well as HS King and Howard Barett
  • on August 29, followed then with Anthamatten and King a first ascent of the Petite Dent de Veisivi from Col de Tsarmine from
  • In 1886, Supersaxo and King were the first to commit the south-southeast ridge of the Besso and the Obermominghorn (Blanc de Moming), which had not yet been reached .

In 1913 he made another first ascent. Together with his son Heinrich and the Englishman EC Francis, they reached the Strahlhorn via the not yet trodden north ridge . Ambros Supersaxo's active career ended in 1922. In his life he led, among many other ascents three the Mont Blanc exceeded by 1906 and three ascents of the Matterhorn over the Zmuttgrat within five days. He had six sons and six daughters, seven of these children died before him. In order to provide the children with a better education, the family moved to Brig for ten years in 1894. Three of his sons, Oskar, Otmar and Heinrich, also became mountain guides and ran a mountain guide school in Saas-Fee. Ambros Supersaxo founded the Saas-Fee ski club in 1908 and was its president. His wife died in 1929 and he himself followed in 1932.

literature

  • Alexander Perrig: Ambros Supersaxo. In: The Alps, Les Alps, Le Alpi. Monthly journal of the Swiss Alpine Club , Volume XI. Bern 1935, p. 42 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Seymour King: The first ascent of the Aiguille Blanche de Peuteret , in The Alpine Journal , Vol. XII, London 1888, pp. 431 ff.
  2. ↑ Marcel Kurz: Guide des Alpes Valaisannes , Vol. 1, p. 225
  3. ^ The Alpine Journal , Vol. XV, p. 546
  4. ↑ The Alpine Journal , Vol. XIII, pp. 123 f.
  5. ↑ SAC Yearbook , Volume XLVI, p. 283
personal data
SURNAME Supersaxo, Ambros
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mountain guide
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Saas-Fee
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1932
Place of death Saas-Fee