Pierre Bossus

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Pierre Bossus (born August 10, 1935 in Geneva ; † June 10, 2000 , ibid) was a Swiss writer , alpinist and president of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA) from 1976 to 1984.

Life and activities

Bossus attended the Latin department of the Collège de Genève , where he graduated from high school in 1954 . He then studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Geneva . He joined the SAC, Geneva section and was a board member in 1958.

In July 1968 he led the Geneva Greenland Expedition , which included nine first ascents on the Akuliaruseq peninsula north of Umanak in western Greenland.

Bossus as UIAA managing director and the then UIAA president Jean Juge flew to the Pamir Mountains in 1974 to visit the camp of the international expedition accompanied by Vitaly Mikhailovich Abalakov .

From 1976 to 1984 he was UIAA President . In 1977 he took part in the 23rd meeting of the International Commission for Alpine Rescue, ICAR, where he agreed on a convention on the division of labor between ICAR and UIAA. Concerns about the social and environmental effects of treks and expeditions in the great mountain ranges led to the UIAA declaration of Kathmandu in 1982 .

For many years he worked as a writer and, in addition to travel reports, created club and climbing guides for the French-Swiss Alps.

Fonts

  • Guide des Préalpes franco-suisses: chaîne frontière entre le Valais et la Haute-Savoie . 1964 and 1979
  • Le guide du Salève de Bossus et Briquet de 1965, Librairie Briquet, Geneva 1965
  • Guide des varappes du Salève: publié à l'occasion du Centenaire de la section genevoise du CAS 1865–1965. Tour guide. Librairie Briquet, Geneva 1965
  • Nouveau refuge du Mischabeljoch. The Alps: Monthly Bulletin of the Swiss Alpine Club, 1966
  • Report Officiels de l'Epédition 1968 au Groenland , 1968
  • Les Aiguilles rouges: Perons, Fils, Massifs de Colonné et de Platé . Artaud, Paris 1974, 978-2-7003-0026-0
  • The First Fifty Years of the UIAA . UIAA Geneva 1982
  • Les cinquante premières années de l'Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme . IUAA, Geneva 1982
  • Los cincuenta primeros años de la Unión Internacional de Asociaciones de Alpinismo . UIAA, Geneva 1982
  • Randonnées au Salève: description of 53 itinéraires. Publisher Club Alpin Suisse Section Genevoise 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bulletin de la section genevoise du CAS, 1957: page 205
  2. ↑ Base de données des élites suisses au XXe
  3. ↑ H. Adams Carter (Ed.): American Alpine Journal 1979: Head: Pierre Bossus, Participants: Otto Germana, Michel Bolay, Joop Goosten, Raynald Martin, Bernard Worner, Joseph Boschung, Roger Egger. Nine first ascents on the Akuliaruseq Peninsula north of Umanak in West Greenland. Pierre Bossus: Report Officiels de l'Epédition 1968 au Groenland
  4. ^ Robert W. Craig: Storm and sorrow in the high Pamirs. Simon and Schuster, New York 1980
  5. ↑ 80 years of UIAA, review and outlook by Claude Eckhardt
  6. ↑ 50 years of ICAR International Mountain Rescue 1948–1998
  7. ↑ UIAA Kathmandu Declaration 1982
  8. ↑ Le guide du Salève de Bossus et Briquet de 1965
  9. ↑ Camp to Camp: Les Aiguilles rouges
  10. ↑ UIAA 1932–1982 the first 50 years ( Memento from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ CAS Randonnée
personal data
SURNAME Bossus, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, alpinist, UIAA President
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2000
Place of death Geneva