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Anders Bolinder (born May 18, 1924 in Stockholm , † August 14, 1987 in Ronco ) was a Swedish-Swiss mountaineer and alpine chronicler.

Life

Anders Bolinder grew up in Stockholm. He started mountaineering early in Scandinavia and the Alps . From 1943 to 1947 he studied at the Royal Technical Academy (Stockholm).

His first expeditions took him to Peru (1952) and Spitzbergen (1953). Later he concentrated mainly on exploring the Andes, and he also made important first ascents , among others with his wife, the Swiss mountaineer Verena Bolinder-Müller .

Bolinder lived in Switzerland since the 1950s and worked there together with Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth (1886–1975) on the creation of mountain lists and climbing chronicles, especially for the Himalayas and Karakoram. Bolinder's publications have appeared in Die Alpen , Berge der Welt , Alpinismus and other specialist journals and books.

At the end of the 1970s, Bolinder was considered the most important international chronicler of Himalayan mountaineering and worked closely with Elizabeth Hawley , Xavier Eguskitza and H. Adams Carter ( American Alpine Journal ).

From 1982 he also worked with the German mountain chronicler Eberhard Jurgalski (* 1952), who has continued important parts of Bolinder's work since his death in 1987.

Bolinder was an honorary member of the English Himalayan Club and its secretary for Switzerland and the other Alpine countries.

Alpinistic services (extract)

• Solo traversal of the Lyngen Peninsula (Norway) in 1950
• Austrian-Swedish Spitzbergen expedition 1953, including the first ascent of the Craggy Ridge (1010 m)
• First ascent 1952 Cerro Aguas Calientes , 5517 m (Andes)
• First ascent 1952 Cerro Lagunas Negros , 5750 m (Andes)
• First ascent February 1956 Cerro El Fraile 6061 m (Andes)
• First ascents in the Puna de Atacama in 1956 and 1965

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1. ↑ Anders Bolinder: Expeditions to Nanga Parbat. In: Reinhold Messner : Going it alone - Nanga Parbat. BLV, Munich 1979. pp. 239ff.
2. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: 8000ers.com - Almanac. Retrieved May 18, 2013.

Web links

• Jozef Nyka: In memoriam - Anders Bolinder (1924–1987) In: Himalayan Journal 1987 (incorrectly headed Anders Bounder .)
• Eberhard Jurgalski : A Brief History of High Asian Chronicles. On the 8000ers.com website .
• Matthias Rebitsch : The Second Ascent of the Ojos del Salado. In: American Alpine Club (Ed.): American Alpine Journal. 1957. pp. 86-89. (PDF file, 4.2 MB.)