Willy Uttendoppler

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Willy Uttendoppler (born November 25, 1909 in Bern ; † December 14, 1991 there ) was a Swiss mountaineer , author and photographer .

Life

Uttendoppler trained as a carpenter , did active service in World War II , including as an alpine instructor, and then worked his way up from messenger to cashier at the Berner Kantonalbank . He was a member of the Naturfreunde Tourist Association and the Swiss Alpine Club , in the Alps and on expeditions to, among others, the Caucasus and the Andes , he achieved significant climbs.

Uttendoppler is one of the most important Swiss mountain photographers and mountain climbers. His photographic and written estate, including driver's logs 1930–73, is in the Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern. He was the mountaineering and photographic mentor of the well-known mountaineer and mountain photographer Dölf Reist , third climber of Mount Everest .

Works

  • Mountains. From the Dolomites to the Dauphiné. Alfred Scherz Verlag, Bern 1942.
  • A rare journey (Bietschorn south face) , In: Bergkameraden. WAC members tell. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1937
  • Storm in the east face of Monte Rosa , Zurich 1937

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo collection  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Swiss Alpine Museum@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.alpinesmuseum.ch  
  2. ↑ Reist, Dölf: To the highest peaks in the world. Lausanne 1978
personal data
SURNAME Uttendoppler, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uttendoppler, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mountaineer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1991
Place of death Bern