Henriette d'Angeville

Henriette d' Angeville ( born March 10, 1794 in Semur -en- brionnais; † January 13, 1871 in Lausanne) was a French mountaineer. She stood in 1838 by Marie Paradis as the second woman on the summit of Mont Blanc and is considered the " first great mountaineer ".

Life

The noble family de Beaumont d'Ange Villes fled from the turmoil of the French Revolution by Bugey in the Château de Lune, where she grew up in a rural environment. It became an avid mountaineer and prepared intensively for the ascent of Mont Blanc before. On September 3, 1838 Henriette d' Angeville started out with more carriers and guides from Chamonix and the next day reached the summit. When climbing she wore a fur hat, a warm cloak, breeches, about thick quilted petticoats, skirt and relatively lightweight shoes. The provisions of the group included, among others, two legs of mutton, two ox tongues, 24 chicken, 18 bottles of red wine, a barrel of white wine and lots of bread. Upon her return to Chamonix Henriette d' Angeville was celebrated enthusiastically. She mounted in the episode about twenty other mountains in the Alps, was dedicated to the caving and founded a museum of minerals in Lausanne, where she died in 1871.

Links, sources

• Biographies News Henriette d' Angeville