Adolf Rubi
Adolf Rubi ( born January 12, 1905 in Grindelwald, † April 23, 1988 in Interlaken ) was a Swiss mountain guide and Nordic and alpine skiers. He participated in the World Championships and the Olympic Winter Games in 1928 in part, was twice Swiss ski champions and made several first ascents in the Alps.
Biography
In skiing the 21 -year-old Rubi scored his first major success at the national level with the victory in the 18 -km cross-country ski race at the 20th Grand Switzerland ( Swiss Ski Championships ) in 1926 in Wengen. In the fight for the title of cross country skiing and ski jumping he was inferior only to the Adelboden Sepp Schmid. In the same year he won the Golden Ski Adelboden at the alpine ski race in Adelboden. At international level, Rubi counted from that time the most successful Swiss. So he reached at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1927 in Cortina d' Ampezzo behind three Czechs fourth place in the Nordic combined and at the Olympic Winter Games in 1928 in St. Moritz, in turn, the top Swiss eleventh place in the Nordic combined ( jumping, he was twelfth and in the long run Fourteenth ).
The greatest successes at the national level Rubi celebrated in the years 1928 and 1929, as in 1929 the Swiss ski champions in the combination of long - and ski jumping was at the 22nd Great ski race in Gstaad Switzerland in 1928 and at the 23rd Great ski race in Arosa Switzerland. In July 1929 Rubi won the triple combination ( downhill, slalom, ski jumping ) of the summer ski race at the Jungfraujoch. He repeated this success in 1933 and 1934.
In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1930 in Oslo Rubi finished in 28th place in the Nordic combined. At 24 Great ski race in Switzerland Engelberg he was in the same year off third in the long run and in the special jumping the Senior I and fourth in the championship combination. More rankings in the top three at the Swiss Championships remained in the coming years but from, but in 1933 he achieved the first Swiss relay race in Grindelwald third place with the Wengen season. Rubi was until 1932 started for the ski club of his hometown Grindelwald, then moved but to Wengen and abdicated in 1933 for the local ski club.
In addition to his victories in the summer ski race on Jungfraujoch 1933 and 1934 Rubi celebrated in his new home Wengen 1934 still a big success when he won the downhill, the slalom and the combination of the Lauberhorn race. Due to storm damage at that time had to be laid down for Girmschbiel the downhill start from the Lauberhorn. The Swiss Ski Championships in Andermatt, he reached the fourth place in the inaugural four combination ( cross-country skiing, ski jumping, downhill and slalom ) in the same year. Also, he was fourth in the 1935 slalom of the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Murren, which represented his best finish in this race. In competitive sport Rubi, who also worked as a ski instructor, was active until the early 1940s. He won in 1937 and 1938 at the no- case Championships at the Sunday Times Cup in Wengen, won in 1938 at the Swiss Championships the departure and the slalom in the age class I and finished at the Swiss Championships 1940 in two disciplines each second.
Aside from skiing, Rubi was a famous mountain guide. He received his guide Patent 1926. Starting from 1929 he took over again touring with the US-American Miriam O'Brien (married Underhill ), including the first descent on the southwest ridge of Lauteraarhorn in September 1929 and the first ascent of the ridge Olmenhorn Triangle Horn on the Aletsch Glacier, as well as the first Durchkletterung without bivouac of the northeast wall of the Finsteraarhorn. on August 3, 1933, he opened in September 1930 a new path to the Virgin and three days later he achieved his first descent over the Wetterhorn - west ridge, each with David Lewers. On 18 August 1934, he performed the first ascent of the North Face monk Lauper between the rib and the Noll bulwark with Peter and Magdalena Inäbnit Hutton, with the latter two years later the first descent over the Younggrat at the Zermatt Breithorn. Together with Hans Schlunegger he made on July 16, 1935 in 16 hours from the Mittellegi to Stechelberg first exceedance of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau without interruption. There are also innumerable other tours in Switzerland and neighboring countries, such as the Monte Rosa and Mont Blanc (via the Peutereygrat in the then record time ), the Barre des Ecrins and the Meije, in the Bergeller Alps and the Dolomites. In July 1936, he was next to his brother Christian Rubi, who was also a skier and mountain guide, and Hans Schlunegger and Arnold Glatthard to the rescue team crashed in a Erstbesteigungsversuch the Eiger North Face climbers Toni Kurz, Andreas Hinterstoisser, Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer.
1949 took part in the Rubi by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research ( SSAF ) organized Nepal Himalaya Expedition. Rubi was provided as tour boss, but had to return early due to health reasons. In 1959 he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro along with Walter Schmid and 1971 he took part in an expedition of the Academic Alpine Club Zurich to Elbrus.
Success ( skiing)
Olympic Winter Games
- St. Moritz 1928: 11th Nordic Combined
World Championships
(the list may be incomplete )
- Cortina d' Ampezzo 1927: 4th Nordic Combined
- Oslo 1930: 28, Nordic combined
Swiss Championships
- Swiss ski champions in 1928 and 1929
Other successes
- Winning the Golden skis from Adelboden 1926
- Victory in the triple combination of summer ski race at the Jungfraujoch in 1929, 1933 and 1934
- Victory in downhill, slalom and combination of the Lauberhorn race 1934