William Penhall

William Penhall

William Penhall (27 October 18583 August 1882) was an English mountaineer.

Life and family

The son of Dr John Penhall MRCS LSA (born 1833 at St Pancras, Middlesex, in 1871 a general practitioner in Hastings, Sussex), [1871 census transcript for Hastings, Sussex, at rootsuk.com, accessed 17 July 2008] Penhall was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA. [http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.php?object_id=206813 William Penhall...] at summitpost.org, accessed 17 July 2008] At the time of the 1881 census, he was enumerated at Trinity, giving his place of birth as Hastings, Sussex, and his occupation as "No Occ." [ [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/Census/household_record.asp?HOUSEHOLD_CODE=1881BR_1707023&HOUSEHOLD_SUB=1&frompage=99 Trinity College Trinity Street] , UK census 1881, online at familysearch.org, accessed 17 July 2008]

Alpinism

First ascents

Penhall made the first ascent of a number of peaks and routes in the Alps during the silver age of alpinism.

Together with Martin Conway, G. S. Scriven and guides Ferdinand Imseng and Peter and M. Truffer he made the first ascent (in two and a half hours) of the west face of the Zinalrothorn in August 1878.Helmut Dumler and Willi P. Burkhardt, "The High Mountains of the Alps", London: Diadem, 1994, p. 139. With Albert Frederick Mummery and guides Alexander Burgener and Ferdinand Imseng he made the first ascent of the Dürrenhorn on 7 September 1879."The High Mountains of the Alps", p. 71.

Penhall was involved in a race with Mummery to be the first to climb the Zmutt ridge of the Matterhorn, a race which Mummery eventually won. According to Penhall, his interest in finding a new way up the mountain had been kindled by Edward Whymper's account of the successful first ascent in 1865 in "Scrambles amongst the Alps".William Penhall, 'The Matterhorn from the Zmutt Glacier', "Alpine Journal", Vol. IX, reprinted in "Peaks, Passes and Glaciers", ed. Walt Unsworth, London: Allen Lane, 1981, pp. 64–72. As Mummery and Burgener approached the mountain to attempt the ridge they met Penhall, and guides Ferdinand Imseng and Louis Zurbrücken, who had retreated from the mountain after a bad-weather bivouac on the ridge. After a brief rest in Zermatt, Penhall returned to the Matterhorn, making the first ascent of the its west face on 3 September 1879, a harder climb than the Zmutt ridge; his party reached the summit one hour after Mummery's."The High Mountains of the Alps", p. 151. Penhall wrote an account of the west face climb in the Alpine Journal entitled 'The Matterhorn from the Zmutt Glacier'. The Penhall Couloir on the west face is named after him.Robin G. Collomb, "Pennine Alps Central", London: Alpine Club, 1975, p. 258.

Death

Penhall and Meiringen guide Andreas Maurer were killed by an avalanche high up on the Wetterhorn on 3 August 1882. Penhall and Maurer share a double gravestone in the Grindelwald cemetery.

External links

* [http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.php?object_id=206813 Photo of Penhall's gravestone in Grindelwald on SummitPost]

References


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