Henri Cordier (mountaineer)

Henri Cordier (* 1856, † June 7, 1877 above La Bérarde; Henry Cordier ), was a French mountaineer. In his short two year career he achieved the first Frenchman to the level of the English members of the Alpine Club, in the second half of the 19th century dominated the mountaineering development of the Alps in the so-called "golden years " of alpinism. With its mountain guides and partially with Bergkameraden of the Alpine Club, he led by significant first ascents in the Mont Blanc Massif and in the Dauphiné Alps ( Massif des Ecrins ).

Great tours and ascents

  • June 21, 1876: Erstbesteigungsversuch the 3,983 m high Meije - then one of the last great unspoilt summit - on the north wall of the corridor with the leaders Jakob Anderegg, Andreas Maurer and J. Bouillet ( from la Grave ).
  • June 28, 1876: Aiguille du plat de la Selle in the Soreiller group of the Massif des Ecrins, 3,597 m, with the leaders Jakob Anderegg and Andreas Maurer.
  • July 3, 1876: South Ridge of Le Rateau, 3,809 m, in the Massif des Ecrins, with Jakob Anderegg, Andreas Maurer.
  • July 15, 1876: South-east of Finstaarhorn with Jakob Anderegg and Kaspar Maurer.
  • July 31, 1876: Cordier Couloir on the North Face of the Aiguille Verte 4,122 m high in the Mont Blanc massif with Thomas Middlemore, John Oakley Maund and the leaders Jakob Anderegg, Johann Jaun and Andreas Maurer
  • August 4, 1876: Cordier route on the North Face of Les Courtes (next to Aiguille Verte and Les Droites in the Mont Blanc massif ) with Thomas Middlemore, John Oakley Maund and the leaders Jakob Anderegg, Johann Jaun and Andreas Maurer.
  • August 7, 1876: First ascent of the east summit of Les Droites ( in the Mont Blanc massif, lowest 4000 of the Alps), with Thomas Middlemore, John Oakley Maund and the leaders Jakob Anderegg, Johann Jaun Younger and Andreas Maurer.
  • August 12, 1876: Erstbesteigungsversuch of Piz Bernina via the north ridge, he ( still only two years after he climbed was ) as absolutely impossible designated.
  • June 1, 1877: Another attempt to climb over the Meije Tabuchetgletscher with Jakob Anderegg and Andreas Maurer.
  • June 7, 1877: First ascent of the 3,563 m high in the Massif des Ecrins Le Plaret with Jakob Anderegg et Andreas Maurer.

Accident

On the descent from the Plaret the successful group made after they had successfully mastered the column zone and placed the rope on the lower part of a glacier break. Cordier then went ahead and tried in front of his horrified companion a steep snow slope above the slide down here in two to three feet below the surface then shooting glacial river. The snow surface collapsed suddenly and Cordier was swept away by the white water under the ice and drowned. His body was recovered until the following day as part of an elaborate but futile bailout. Henri Cordier had become just 21 years old.

Memory

At Henri Cordier in the Massif des Ecrins remembers the location above the Glacier Blanc and named after him Pic de Neige Cordier, the first time ascended Paul Guillemin, Émile Pic and Pierre Estienne on August 3, 1877. In addition, to give his name for posterity in two first- fixed routes, which he had committed in 1876 with Thomas Middlemore, John Oakley Maund and the leaders Jakob Anderegg, Andreas Maurer and Johann Jaun: the Cordier Couloir on the North Face of the Aiguille Verte and the Cordier route in the north face of Les Courtes (both in the Mont Blanc massif ).

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