Ursula Albinus
Ursula Albinus (* --- in ---; † --- in ---), war eine deutscher Frau, die 1937 in eigener Organisation den Kilimanjaro allein mit Guides und Porter erfolgreich bis zum Gipfel bestiegen hat.
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Aus dem Leben von Ursula Albinus
- geboren ...
- Oktober 1937 - Ursula Albinus besteigt erfolgreich den Kilimanjaro
- gestoren ...
Ursula Albinus und der Kilimanjaro
- Es gibt mehrere Quellen in englisch sprachigen Zeitungen von 1937, die über die erfolgreiche Kilimanjaro-Besteigung von Ursula Albinus berichten.
The Children s Newspaper - November 20, 1937 [1]
Kilimanjaro, the crowning height of Africa, has already been climbed by Britons and Germans, but .never until the other day by a woman. Now Fraulein Ursula Albinus has achieved the wonderful feat, reaching the summit, over 19,200 feet up in the air, by what we are told is a new route.
Whatever the path she trod, the achievement is magnificent, for all mountaineers who have essayed the climb declare it, for its height, one of the worst in the world. The climber has to face piercing winds and to encounter ice and vast sheets of treacherous slipping shingle which may slide with him down a slope and carry him to death ; arid when the crown is approached there lies a colossal crater, filled with eternal ice, from which flows a stream to form tlie River Pangani.
One of its peaks is known as Leopard Point, because when it was first climbed men found there an ibex and a leopard frozen to death. Evidently the leopard had been following its prey, and the mountain goat had fled higher and higher up the mountain in its efforts to escape ; finally, right at the summit, they both must have been caught in a blizzard and overwhelmed. How long they had been there no one can say.
This story reminds us of a curious find on the summit of Mont Blanc. When they were digging to find solid rock for the foundations for an observatory to be built there, they failed to find rock, but at a depth of twelve feet found a plum stone !
Two Englishmen who climbed Kilimanjaro 15 years ago suffered intensely from mountain sickness, from difficulty in breathing in the rarefied air, and from pulses raised to 130 a minute. They left a Union Jack stuck up on the topmost pinnacle : we wonder if Fraulein Ursula found any remains of it.The Sydney Morning Herald - October 21, 1937 [2]
Sir,-Thr Capetown cable in." to-day's "Hçt'ald" mentioning ihat a record had been I created by Fiáulein Albinus in ascending Mount I Kilimanjaro, 19,7.10 feet high, and the highest i ppnk in Africa, shows what, a lone woman can I do in'nine da vs. Organised expeditions, using motors and mules, on Uie lower slopes, can perform the ascent and return in six days. | Fräulein Albinus's solo achievement is a nol | able example nf the physical endurance of many modern women, and in her choosin? the formidable south-western side, Instead of the less arduous south-pastern, r'xhibitcri a con- tempt for difficulties which compels admiration.
A country in an of the Fräulein«-the mis- sionary Johannes Rebmann-discovered Kili manlarn in 1848, and two other Germans. Dr. Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtschellor, were the first men to reach the summit in 1889. In African exploration, and even in the build- ing up of the British Empire in Africa, in past years, Germans have played a notable and r'dventurous part, which it would be ungenerous not to recognise.
I am : Rose Bay, Oct. 20. - T. N. MacKENZlE.Nottingham Evening Post - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England - October 30, 1937 [3]
... Scales Kilimanjaro's 19,000 Feet 'LOST" FOR NINE DAYS Mount Kilimanjaro (19,324 feet), Kenya Colony, has been conquered by a young German girl, Fraulein Ursual Albinus, who reached the summit by a new route, climbing unaccompanied. She is believed to have set up a new record by ...
Bilder: Ursula Albinus
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ new.lookandlearn.com - The Children s Newspaper - November 20, 1937 - Did Fraulein Find the Union Jack ?
- ↑ trove.nla.gov.au, The Sydney Morning Herald - October 21, 1937 - Kilimanjaro
- ↑ [1] - Nottingham Evening Post - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England - October 30, 1937 -GIRL'S LONE CLIMB
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