Rendez-vous Hautes Montagnes
Rendez-vous Hautes Montagnes is an international association of mountaineering women.
In May 1968, Baroness Felicitas von Reznicek (1903–1997) organized the first meeting of mountaineers in Engelberg . Seventy women from different countries climbed together for a week. The RHM association was founded.
Felicitas von Reznicek, a politically committed journalist, worked as the daughter of a “ half-Jewish ” for the British secret service during the Nazi era. Winston Churchill granted her English citizenship in 1951. At the beginning it was her concern that alpinists from eastern states could also travel to the Alps. To this end, RHM created a solidarity fund.
Since it was founded, mountaineering and climbing women from many countries have met regularly in different mountain worlds to climb together in friendship and with enthusiasm. The association has no legal form, but is open to all women who have mastered level V as the first rope operator and who conduct their tours independently.
literature
Felicitas Reznicek: From the crinoline to the sixth degree . Verlag das Bergland-Buch, Salzburg / Stuttgart 1967.
Web links
- Homepage
- The passion for climbing unites NZZ from September 20, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karin Steinbach Tarnutzer : The passion for climbing connects. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 20, 2013