Wally Herbert
Sir Walter William "Wally" Herbert (born October 24, 1934 in York , England , † June 12, 2007 in Inverness , Scotland ) was a British polar explorer , author and painter.
Life
Herbert was born in 1934 to a soldier and a farmer's wife. He studied cartography and worked in Egypt for a while. He started the Transarctic expedition in February 1968 with his companions Allan Gill , Roy Koerner and Kenneth Hedges . He used four dog sleds with forty huskies to get around . He wanted to combine the trip to the North Pole with crossing the polar sea .
The expedition was supplied from the air. Every few weeks airplanes brought food and other supplies. The biggest problems of the trip were meltwater ponds and pack ice . The average temperature was around −20 ° C to −30 ° C. Herbert reached the North Pole on April 6, 1969, and the expedition ended on June 11, 1969 after 467 days. Since it has so far not been conclusively proven whether Robert Edwin Peary and Frederick Cook have ever been to the North Pole, it is considered likely that Herbert and his companions would have come close to having the honor of being the first to reach the Pole by land. On April 19, 1968, however, Ralph Plaisted (1927-2008) drove with three companions from Ward Hunt Island to the pole. In contrast to Herbert, who like z. B. left Roald Amundsen on dog sleds, Plaisted's expedition was equipped with snowmobiles .
Wally Herbert's book Eskimos. People in the Land of the Long Day (German by Vitalis Pantenburg ) was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize in 1977 . In 2000 he was in recognition of his services to Queen Elizabeth II. To Knight Bachelor beaten.
In June 2007, at the age of 72, Wally Herbert died of severe diabetes and heart problems. He left a wife and a daughter. Is he named in honor of the Herbert Plateau , a plateau in the Antarctic Peninsula, the Herbert Range , a mountain range in the Transantarctic Mountains and Herbertfjellet, a 275 m high mountain on the island Vesle Tavleøya in Spitsbergen . His daughter Kari Herbert works as a travel journalist and lives in Cornwall, UK.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wally Herbert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official homepage of Wally Herbert
- Opinions about Herbert ( Memento from February 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- "Polar explorer Sir Wally Herbert dies at 72" , The Guardian , June 14, 2007 (Eng.)
- "Sir Wally Herbert, Explorer of the Iciest Corners on Earth, this at 72" , New York Times June 18, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Familie September / October 2017 edition, p. 34.
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Familie September / October 2017 edition, p. 34.
- ↑ Video Terra X: The North Pole Conspiracy (April 24, 2013, 12:45 p.m., 43:30 min.) In the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 11, 2014.
- ^ Guy Lawson, An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole . In: The New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2016, accessed March 20, 2016.
- ↑ Schreiber-Verlag, Esslingen 1976.
- ^ Eskimo in the database of the German Youth Literature Prize, accessed on August 19, 2014
- ↑ Herbertfjellet . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Familie September / October 2017 edition, p. 39.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herbert, Wally |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herbert, Sir Walter William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish polar explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | York |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 2007 |
| Place of death | Inverness |