Meta Brevoort

Claudia Margaret Brevoort, called Meta Brevoort (* 1825, † December 19, 1876 in Dorking, England), was an American mountaineer.

She spent her early years at Couvent Sacré Coeur in Paris. In the 60s and 70s of the 19th century you get some important and difficult climbs in the Alps. 1865 she stood on the summit of Mont Blanc. In 1871 it stood within a few days the first woman on the Dent Blanche, the White Horn, and the Bietschhorn. In 1874 it led from Wintererstbegehungen of the Wetterhorn and the Virgin. However, her two of her greatest mountaineering objectives were denied: You failed in its ambitions to be the first woman on the Matterhorn, and the first ascent of the Meije in the Haut- Dauphiné, where she accidentally climbed in the Pic Central instead of the ten-meter high Grand Pic. Brevoorts model and rival was Lucy Walker, who began her considerable mountaineering career in 1859 at the age of 28 years. It was Lucy Walker, who, after they had learned of plans Metas 1871 quickly a rope team under the leadership of Melchior Anderegg drummed together to climb the Matterhorn. Immediately before Meta arrived in Zermatt, Lucy was the first woman on the summit of this famous Pennine summit. Meta traversed a few weeks later, the first woman to the Horn of Zermatt to Breuil.

Meta Brevoort was the aunt of WAB Coolidge, she took in 1865 to Europe, when he was 15 years old. She led her nephew approached the alpine mountaineering. Coolidge was an outstanding mountaineer, the reach of more than 1,700 ascents in the Alps. He was the greatest alpine historian of the Victorian age. Meta Brevoort and W. A. B. Coolidge climbed more than ten years together. Often they were accompanied by their dog Tschingel (1865 - 1879) accompanied. Later she spoke with pride about her dog, she was the only "Honorary Lady" at the Alpine Club.

Meta and her nephew visited the Dauphiné repeatedly with the intent to climb the 3,983 m high Meije, but they were prevented from doing bad weather every time. 1876 ​​Meta had last time opportunity for first ascent of this equally famous and difficult mountain. However, they remained in the Bernese Oberland to support her nephew in his experiments in the Bernese Alps.

Meta Brevoort died on 19 December 1876 at the English Dorking on a rheumatic fever as a result of streptococcal infection. She had at that time still large alpine cherished plans, not least an expedition to Everest.

In skin Daphine carries the highest peak of the Grande ruins, the 3,765 m high Pointe Brevoort, her name.

Reference

Caroline Fink, Karin Steinbach: first on the rope - pioneers of rock and ice, Tyrolia -Verlag, Innsbruck, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7022-3252-8

R. Clark ( 1953). The Victorian Mountaineers, BT Batsford, London

  • Mountaineers (United States)
  • Born in 1825
  • Died in 1876
  • Woman
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