Andrew Taylor (climber)

Andrew "Andy" Morrison Taylor (* 1875 in Ottawa , Canada ; † 1945 ) was a Canadian adventurer and mountaineer . He is one of the first to climb the 5959 meter high Mount Logan , the highest mountain in his home country and the second highest on the North American continent .

Life

Andy Taylor was born in 1875, the seventh of nine children. He grew up in affluent circumstances, but left home and his hometown Ottawa as a teenager . He initially hired on the Columbia River and from the 1890s on the Stikine River on steamboats . Between 1898 and 1913 he was in the gold rush town of Dawson , where he tried his luck. He is said to have consumed gold three times as much. In 1913 he moved to McCarthy, Alaska , where a larger copper deposit had just been discovered and was being mined. There he earned his living as a miner , looking for ore and taking hunting trips . Without ever having climbed a mountain before, he joined an expedition led by Albert MacCarthy and Fred Lambart to the Elias chain in 1924 . The greatest achievement of the group, which also included Allen Carpé , William Wasbrough Foster and Norman Read , was the first ascent of Mount Logan on June 23, 1925.

After this success, Tylor continued to climb higher peaks in Alaska and the Yukon Territory . He participated in expeditions to Mount Fairweather in 1926, to Mount Bona in 1930, again to Mount Fairweather in 1931 and to Denali in 1932. In 1935 he crossed the Elias chain, in 1937 he took part in an ascent of Mount Hayes . He died in 1945.

literature

• Chic Scott: Pushing the limits: the story of Canadian mountaineering . Rocky Mountain Books Ltd, 2000, ISBN 978-0-921102-59-5 , pp. 96 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed May 2, 2011]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1925 Climb. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011 ; accessed on August 26, 2010 (English / French). 
2. ^ ^{A b} Chic Scott: Pushing the limits: the story of Canadian mountaineering . 2000, p. 99 .