Eleonore Noll-Hasenclever

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Eleonore Hasenclever, around 1911

Eleonore Noll-Hasenclever (born August 4, 1880 in Duisburg as Eleonore Hasenclever ; † August 18, 1925 on Mount Bishorn , Valais Alps , Switzerland ) was a German mountaineer and was considered the most successful mountaineer of her time.

Life

The daughter of a bridge engineer found her enthusiasm for mountaineering in a boarding school for girls in Lausanne . On a mountain tour, she met the experienced mountain guide and first-time climber of several peaks in the Alps, Alexander Burgener , who subsequently climbed 21 four-thousand-meter peaks with her and thus taught her the basics of alpinism .

In the following years she climbed the Matterhorn eight times and several times the Mont Blanc and the surrounding peaks. In 1909 she published her first alpine experiences in the book "The ascent of the Dôme de Rochefort via the Aiguille de Rochefort and the Mont Mallet ".

She then devoted herself to climbing the peaks of the Austrian and French Alps, such as the Aiguille des Grands Charmoz in 1911, where she met Johannes Noll, whom she married in 1914. In 1913 she published another book about her mountain tours with “In den Saaser Bergen ”.

Bishorn with the Turtmann glacier

In the 1920s she undertook several difficult tours in the Western Alps with Alfred Horeschowsky and Hans Pfann . In 1924 she successfully climbed the north face of the Breithorn . On August 18, 1925, she died at an altitude of 3800 meters on the descent from the Bishorn in the Valais Alps , after she was not rescued from an avalanche by her companions in time . Her tombstone is in the mountaineers cemetery in Zermatt .

Tombstone

In 1932 her memoirs were published posthumously under the title "Den Bergen fallen for".

Quotes

  • "When somewhere, you get to know someone in the mountains, be it in the hours of contemplative joy or happiness that the mountains give, be it in simply persevering to the extreme or even in the struggle to be or not to be"
  • “The happiness that the mountains give their faithful is a matter of their own; it cannot be forced. But anyone who has ever felt this happiness has fallen for the mountains forever. They make him infinitely rich, and I believe he can never be completely poor again! "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Steinbach Tarnutzer: A fateful fascination. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung August 19, 2011.
  2. ^ Eleonore Noll-Hasenclever: Fall for the mountains. Alpine trips. Union-Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1932.
  3. ↑ Eleonore Noll-Hasenclever 1923
  4. ^ Eleonore Noll-Hasenclever 1924
personal data
SURNAME Noll-Hasenclever, Eleonore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasenclever, Eleonore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German alpinist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1925
Place of death Bishorn , Valais Alps , Switzerland