Henriette d'Angeville
Henriette d'Angeville (born March 10, 1794 in Semur-en-Brionnais , † January 13, 1871 in Lausanne ) was a French mountaineer. In 1838, after Marie Paradis, she stood on the summit of Mont Blanc as the second woman and is considered the “first great female alpinist ”.
Life
The noble family de Beaumont d'Angevilles fled the turmoil of the French Revolution to Bugey to the Château de Lune , where they grew up in a rural setting. She became a passionate mountaineer and prepared intensively for the ascent of Mont Blanc. On September 3, 1838, Henriette d'Angeville started with ten porters and six mountain guides from Chamonix and reached the summit the next day. During the ascent, she wore a fur hat , a warm cape, baggy pants , thickly padded petticoats, a skirt and relatively light shoes. The group's provisions included two legs of mutton, two ox tongues, 24 chickens, 18 bottles of red wine, a barrel of white wine and lots of bread. On her return to Chamonix, Henriette d'Angeville was enthusiastically celebrated. She subsequently climbed over twenty other mountains in the Alps, devoted herself to caving and founded a museum for minerals in Lausanne, where she died in 1871.
Web links, sources
literature
- Henriette d'Angeville: Mon Excursion Au Mont-Blanc . Arthaud, Grenoble 1987, 1994 ISBN 978-2-7003-0664-4
- Fergus Fleming: Up. The first conquests of the Alpine peaks. Piper Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3492247512
- Tanja Wirz: summiteers. A gender history of alpinism in Switzerland 1840-1940. Hier + Jetzt-Verlag, Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-03919-033-1
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angeville, Henriette d ' |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beaumont d'Angeville, Henriette de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French alpinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Semur-en-Brionnais |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1871 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |