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Jungfrau at night Contents Front Cover: Front www.downhillonly.com DHOjournal
3 Editorial Freddie Whitelaw LIST OF ADVERTISERS 4 Disconnected Jottings 43 Alpia Sport Wengen Season 2011/2012 59 Altitude 9 wengen Manager’s Report Sheridan Killwick 22 Amstutz 11 An Introduction to the next Wengen Manager Andrew Davies 63 bikecation 12 Race Results 2011/12 8 brechin Management Limited 17 President’s Report 2012 Max Davies 48 Central Sport 20 Coggins Report 2012 bob Eastwood 63 Chalet Stella Alpina Racing 16 Coggins, Eagles & Adult Ski Courses 23 british Schoolboys Races lauren Maynard 25 DHO Flat 26 british Schoolgirls Racing Anne Taylor & Sarah Robinson bc D & R Group 31 Racing & Training ingrid Christophersen 53 Da Sina-Sina’s Pub 33 Amateur Inter Club Championship liz Moore 19 DHO Merchandise 35 wengen Worthies 1, Fredy Fuchs Freddie Whitelaw 64 Emily Holt/Roosi Huus 36 Flindall Apartment General 8 history of Ski Jumping 37 british Ski Racing Publicity Tim Ashburner 14 hotel Caprice 39 The Expedition Freddie Whitelaw 53 hotel Falken 44 Volcanic Skiing Phil Smith 29 hotel Jungfraublick 47 Ski Touring Report Kit Erhardt 30 hotel Sunstar 51 Ski Equipment over the years ingie Christophersen ibc imperial Hotels 54 The Shackelton Traverse Janey King 2 Jungfraubahn 61 The Hills Are Alive.... Robert Stewart 22 Männlichen Cablecar 65 wengen Faces 36 Martin Gertsch 70 obituaries 29 Mendelssohn Musicweek DHO Club News 2011 59 oxfordshire Glass 74 officers & Committee Members 43 Paterson/Eiger Residence 75 DHO Calendar 2012 10 Privat Schneesportschule 76 Spring Tour Programme ifc Pure Powder 76 new Membership List 2012 63 Raiffeisenbank 77 Membership List 2012 7 Ravenglass Railway 7 Roosi Huus Apartment Photos supplied by: 38 Solent Sunbeam Sarah Robinson, Sheridan Killwick, Richard Berry, Freddie Whitelaw, Max Davies, David Swindells, 50 Snoworks Bob Eastwood, Adolf Schlunegger, Mike Easley, Daily Express, Kieran Stevens, Brian Phillips, 60 Snow Swappers Lauren Maynard, Anne Taylor, Flaine-photozoom, Liz Moore, Phil Smith, Janey King, Robert Stewart, 43 Swiss Made Shop Ingie Christophersen, Rolf Wegmüller, Kandahar S C, Basil Brindley, Natalie Mayer, Alan Norris, Fredy Fuchs. 21 Swiss Ski & Snowboard School Important Notice: 7 ullswater Steamers Contributions to the 2013 Journal should be sent by June 1st 2013 to: 32 u S Apartment Freddie Whitelaw, The Hon. Editor, DHO Journal, 59 wengen Apartment Riverside Cottage, Fellows Lane, Caergwrle, Wrexham LL12 9AU 64 wengen Apotheke Tel 01978 769333. Email [email protected]
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Editorial Freddie Whitelaw
Only after very careful consideration and future he and Eden will have more time in DHO Journal discussion was the post finally offered to, Wengen away from the politics inevitable in and accepted by Andrew Davies, who lives any club and can just enjoy themselves. 2012 in Edinburgh, and is currently working as a As most will know, Sheridan Killwick has Senior Development Tutor with the Venture New rules and Articles of Association resigned as Wengen Manager. She has an Trust in Scotland. He is BASI 2 qualified, Professional advisers have put in many ageing mother and her partner Sean has has many years’ skiing experience, and in man-weeks of work on consulting others ageing parents who live very close to them addition has hosted skiing holidays of both within the club and outside. both of whom are in need of frequent varying kinds – including several in the Of particular note, Ed Perrott and Huw attention. Jungfrau Region. He and his delightful wife Alban Davies put in many hours without Hayley (who also met and had discussions cost to the club and whilst it would perhaps They both feel it inappropriate to be away with the interviewing team) have just had be unfair to mention every person who for up to 3 months of the year and thus it their first child, Lachlan. All three of them contributed to their discussions, it might be was with sadness that the Directors and will be coming to Wengen early in December appropriate to mention Tony Davis whose Committee accepted Sheridan’s resignation 2012, where Andrew will prepare for the contributions have been significant. towards the end of last season. She has opening of the ski season. done a superb job for us and was not always Club Room Rules as well treated by every member as she Max Davies departs as President There is one unwritten rule by which deserved. She is being replaced by Andrew After a 7 year stint as president, Max has members are expected to abide. Consumer Davies (who we hasten to add is unrelated decided to call it a day. He is expected to be of alcoholic beverages or not, you are to either main committee members Max and replaced by Michael Woodhall who will be expected to place something behind the bar Susie Davies, who are themselves unrelated proposed as Max’s successor at the AGM. of at least a half drinkable standard. to each other!). Andrew was chosen from an Max has supervised the club’s fortunes over If you consume 2 drinks a night of anything, application list of 22 candidates and some of its most exciting and turbulent then place another bottle there after 3 days. eventually made it to a short list of 6 who years. We left the old Curling Club Hut and Some (mercifully few) have been seen to were interviewed by Skype. This resulted acquired our own magnificent premises in take drinks, but never actually place a bottle in a final short list of 3, who were then the Eiger building. Max’s extensive behind the bar. We don’t keep a tally, but interviewed face to face by Max Davies, experience in the property market was often those who do abide by the rules are Michael Woodhall and Susie Davies, instrumental in making this possible due apt to notice if someone takes and never President and vice Presidents respectively. to our having a man at the helm who gives. understood the market. We hope that in 4•DHOJournal•2012
Wengen Curling Club in this year’s Journal. We rather half- You could argue that since we no longer The Wengen Curling Club long precedes us heartedly attempted to solicit a report but share premises with them, perhaps now is as a Wengen based club, having last year without success. as good a time as any to cease to include celebrated its Centenary since it was formed WCC reports in the DHO Journal. in 1911. So it was 14 years old when the Over the years Ken Foster and others have Personally I feel that we have no reason to DHO was formed and 25 years old when thanked the WCC for their help and assist- change the habits that commenced in 1936 the DHO Journal first appeared. Most years ance over many matters which we in the and although reports have missed a year since then, we have included a report on the DHO have been most lucky and grateful to or two occasionally, it would be a pity to happenings of our older colleagues. Last year have received. Not least of these has been entirely cease publication. Perhaps DHO Fred MacKenzie, a regular contributor to the their generously sharing with us THEIR hut members who are also WCC members (the Journal, retired as secretary of the WCC and (despite our immediately christening it the Patersons spring to mind) might like to see we suppose that may be the reason why we DHO hut!) for close to 30 years. which way the land lies. received no report from them for inclusion
DisconnectedJottings Jungfraubahn Centenary
On New Year’s Eve, 2011, visitors to Rolf Wegmüller, head of the Wengen Wengen could see the white cross on a Tourismus was up at Männlichen on the red background of the Swiss National flag evening of 11th January and took the above projected onto the Jungfrau. And each night photograph, which he was happy to give us thereafter for some 2 weeks. permission to reproduce in the Journal. DHO Membership as a Christmas present...
Timothy Trembath was planning a skiing The photograph shows Timothy with his holiday in Wengen this last season. His presents at Christmas before he had a daughter Charlotte Clark, a member since chance to use them in Wengen. 2004 organised to buy him a membership and a DHO tie as a Christmas present.
Dundee Ski Club
In the interest of inter-club relationships Jamieson, 99 years old and still skiing, she David Verden Anderson asked our skied in Meribel this year. Better known, President Max Davies as his guest to attend perhaps, to our members as the mother of the Dundee Ski Club 75th anniversary those great skiers, the Jamieson sisters, dinner. Max is seen seated with the DSC Helen, Val and Sheila. All 3 of them skied surviving ex-presidents (David is not an for Scotland. ex-president and therefore not included in the photo), but adjacent to Max is Hilda DHOJournal•2012•5
Forthcoming happenings in the Club Room Brian Phillips, chairman of the Club Room sub-committee which is responsible for all happenings in the Club Room announces 2 new items for this year. Photographic Competition
During McMillan week, the Club Room Committee will be organising a photographic competition. Subjects Art Exhibition should be ski related and can be submitted to the Wengen Manager at any Caroline Ponsonby, an artist who has visited nearby mountains. All will be oil paintings. time, but no later than the Sunday of that Wengen for the past few years and will be Oils are inevitably more expensive than week (Sunday 3rd February). Photos will there again over Christmas, describes herself other forms of painting, but nevertheless be judged and the best exhibited in the as “a figurative oil painter, who likes to work Caroline’s prices will start at around the very Club Room during that week, with the from preparatory sketches done on location good value of £500, but some of the larger winner being announced at the end of and then worked up in the studio” will be ones will be rather more expensive. the week. mounting an exhibition in the Club Room between March 6th and March 16th. The The exhibition is planned to be publicised There is no mention of the prize for exhibition will comprise up to 30 different through the Wengen Tourist office and will the winner, perhaps a small bar of paintings of varying sizes (but not too big move out to a hotel for the day of our weekly Toblerone? Or perhaps something bigger with transportation in mind). All will be of Club Room Drinks Party Night. and better and more fattening? scenes around the village of Wengen or the
Mr and Mrs Robert Eastwood
The above rather formal heading attempts to add a slightly sombre and respectful tone to the fact that Bob and Rachel got married on Saturday 25th August. We wish them both Health, Wealth and Happiness. There was a collection amongst our members and a painting by Rupert Head was commissioned and purchased.
Max Davies presented the painting on our behalf along with a largish cheque for the balance of that collection. Bob asked if we would mention that both he and Rachel are extremely thankful and very grateful for the generous gift collected from so many of their friends and fellow members. 6•DHOJournal•2012
Sundog at Black Rock
Alan Norris sent us the adjacent photograph which he took on Black Rock looking back towards Eiger Gletscher. Called a Sundog,(scientific name Parhelian) it is not dissimilar to a rainbow in the sense that it is formed by the refraction of sunlight, in this case, by ice crystals in the air, rather than water droplets as in the case of a rainbow. February’s bitterly cold weather was well suited to allow sundogs to be seen. dust drifting in the air at low levels. These — in this case, sundogs are seen. The following explanation from Wikipedia, crystals act as prisms, bending the light rays may help those who wish to know more. passing through them with a minimum As the sun rises higher, the rays passing deflection of 22°. If the crystals are randomly through the crystals are increasingly skewed Sundogs are made commonly of plate- oriented, a complete ring around the sun is from the horizontal plane. Their angle of shaped hexagonal ice crystals in high and seen — a halo. But often, as the crystals sink deviation increases and the sundogs move cold cirrus clouds or, during very cold through the air they become vertically further from the sun. However, they always weather, by ice crystals called diamond aligned, so sunlight is refracted horizontally stay at the same elevation as the sun.
Book Review: SKI JOY - The Story of Winter Sports by Harry Stone
The DHO Journal editor is a bit of a Reducing a previously screened print to dots self-appointed expert on the history of a second time results in a screen clash where Alpine Skiing. So it came as a surprise to the photograph looks for all the world as if discover just how much he didn’t know the camera that took it was the wrong side of about the subject. Reading Harry Stone’s a chain link fence. There is a technique using book has certainly filled many holes in my the digital paint software Adobe Photoshop knowledge. I am sorry he did not discuss that can significantly reduce this unsightly some items with us beforehand and thus a phenomenon and it is a pity that it was not few imperfections such as crediting used . Mac’s Leap to the Mürren side of the Lauterbrunnen valley instead of down the In conclusion, not a perfect publication, but Tschuggen Glade to Grindelwald, or it is not expensive, it deserves to sell readily mis-naming Ernst Gertsch as Oscar Gert- and it is full of masses of useful information. sch might have been avoided. Clearly one It does include an accurate description of the of Harry Stones’ sources was formation of the DHO and includes several Elisabeth Hussey, a past editor of the little cameos about Chris Mackintosh, SCGB magazine Ski Survey and prob- Alan D’Egville, John Joannides, ably the UK’s best ski historian. So some “Mongoose” Soden, Andrew Walser, Dick of the history is perhaps a little bit biased Waghorn and Antony Knebworth to name towards Arnold Lunn’s version of the but a few of those who were instrumental in history of skiing. Elisabeth worked for inventing and establishing Alpine skiing in Arnie for many years. the Jungfrau region in the Twenties.
Some of the old photos have been copied Softback, A4 in size, just under 150 pages out of magazines. Thus they were already in length, it is due to be available on the “screened” (reduced to dots). web within a few weeks. Thoroughly recommended. DHOJournal•2012•7 8•DHOJournal•2012
BRECHIN MANAGEMENT LIMITED 6 Brechin Place, London SW7 4QA Tel 020 7370 1256/7/8 Fax No 020 7370 2251 Max Davies and the staff at Brechin Management Limited wish the DHO and Wengen an Excellent Season in 2013
THE HISTORY OF SKI JUMPING Tim Ashburner
‘It’s a beautiful volume, and I am very impressed. The pictures are most interesting – several are new to me. I did not know it was possible to find photographs of so many of the early European skiers…And you certainly have a sharp pen – I was laughing out loud several times into the book. Again, thanks for the copy. I am honoured to be mentioned.’ Rune Flaten, Archivist, Foreningen til Ski Idrettens, Fremme, Oslo
‘I can only say: Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic again! It seems to me unbelievable that someone can research so far back about a sport nobody has written much about before. There is so much about skiing and ski jumping that I did not know…Tim you are a champion!’ Karl Molitor, Wengen
‘I might as well be honest with you. I did not think you could produce a book anything like as good. It is excellent.’ Inge Christophersen
‘I believe he is in that long and very great tradition of English and Scottish writers who, beginning with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and continuing with Somerville, Richardson and Arnold Lunn, have left for future generations enduring histories of the beginnings of skiing.’ David Parnell
TIM ASHBURNER, 12 REDCLIFFE CLOSE, OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON SW5 9HX Email: [email protected] DHOJournal•2012•9
Sheridan Killwick, Carol West and Jane Billington posing in Max presents the Waldo cup to Sarah Hoyle front of their handiwork Wengen Manager’s Report Sheridan Killwick, Winter 2011/12
We set off from England not knowing if On New Year’s day we received some great We had a party in the DHO Club Room in we could start skiing or not in Wengen news - Bob Eastwood and Rachel Anderton December to thank the locals and members when we got there. The snow was very got engaged on New Year’s Eve. who had helped make the Amateur Inter late in coming this season and one or two Congratulations to them both. News of this Club Championships such a success when people who had hoped for an early season travelled very quickly among DHO members the DHO hosted them in March 2011. We ski were disappointed. Needless to say the and Wengen locals, I knew before Bob told all enjoyed the delicious canapés and mince snow did arrive and although we couldn’t me!! We are all very happy for them. pies as well as the Prosecco. Thank you to ski on the Wengen pistes for the first week all who helped make this evening a success. of the season we did ski every day in Newly installed this season was a glass This season, championships were held in Mürren. cabinet to house all the archive DHO Gstaad (see more details in the AICC Journal journals they are available for members to report). The Wengen pistes did finally open just look at in the Club Room or to view on the before Christmas and the conditions were DHO website. Sean sourced and installed There was plenty of snow this year for the great. A lot of regular DHO members the cabinet and we donated the granite top. Lauberhorn race and Wengen came alive on were out over the Christmas and New Year It was really nice to look through the old Friday 13 January with every train coming holidays and we had a good turnout for the journals especially for me to look up when up from Lauterbrunnen full of people Heinz cup race which was won this time by my grandparents first became DHO members coming to watch the Super Combination Team Essen. The team members were Phil back in 1936. My grandfather Major George which was won by Ivica Kostelic from and Christine Comelio whose son Sebastian Killwick also was a keen curler and won Croatia, second was Beat Feuz from was training with Ingie and the DHO the Buhlmann cup in 1953, this, too, is all Switzerland and third was Bode Miller from trainees, Simon Williamson and Robert documented in the DHO journals. I am sure USA. The Swiss were out celebrating on Brignall. It snowed pretty much all day and he would have been very proud to know that Friday evening, the streets and all the bars a lot of the team members admitted that had I had been the DHO Wengen Manager for were buzzing. The sun shone all weekend it not been for the Heinz cup they may have four seasons. Wengen looked at its best on the television. chosen not to ski, however the quiz gave them a sense of determination and purpose It was a real pleasure to see the delight the We held an extra DHO race on Thursday 19 for the day. Prize giving was held as usual in archive journals brought to others as well January and Martin, the DHO Leader and the DHO Club Room and the winning team who came in to look up details of their I decided to run a slightly different race. sang their poem/song to us all; not only did family or friends and read about them or The idea was everyone got two runs and the they have the most points but their poem was look at their photos. All the journals are in winner was the person whose time was most the best overall as well. excellent condition and are all laminated and consistent with the least time difference thus bound to protect them for years to come. giving all entrants a chance of winning rather 10•DHOJournal•2012
than it being the fastest person overall which Jean Daniel Gluck was the overall winner of often results in the same person winning. the McMillan Cup race; he also did very well for the DHO in the 2011 and 2012 Paul Zvegintzov, who of course during his Amateur Inter Club races. Lucy Maskey was time as DHO Wengen Secretary was too the winner of the Lucy Dicker and she won busy laying on races and was never able to the Security cup and Lockhart cup in the take part, won, His time was 0.14 different, McMillan race. She also did very well for the in second place was Cynthia Perkins her DHO in the 2011 Amateur Inter Club races. Peter Lightfoot gliding through the time difference was 0.30 and in third place deep powder off piste close to the Eigernordwand lift was Alastair Drew with a time difference of Max also presented the Waldo Cup at the 0.50. prize giving to Sarah Hoyle to thank her for of dinners at Club Med and a couple up at her great contribution to the DHO and her Allmend, lunch with René Seiler at We had a slightly smaller Inferno team than work as Honorary Secretary during his Jägerstübli who had all the women queuing last season, however they did very well and Presidency. Freddie Whitelaw was up to have their photo taken with him. I was four of the DHO team members got bronze disappointed when he missed a photo lucky enough to be invited to ski with him medals; well done! The Railway Cup was opportunity of Sarah Hoyle. She was with which was great fun. Richard Lovell gave held earlier this season on Thursday her husband Roger getting on the train to a talk about his 28 day trip to the Magnetic 26 January, it was the only sunny day that Lauterbrunnen. They were carrying a heavy North Pole pulling a sled weighing 150lbs week, we were very lucky. We had an box of trophies from the School Boy races where he raised money for Motor Neurone excellent turn out and Marco Luggen from and taking them to Interlaken to the Disease back in 1997. the Jungfrau Railway put on a splendid engravers. I think Freddie was hoping for race bearing in mind he had been newly a photo to give to the police of the thieves The final event was the President’s party, appointed in his role. Norman Freund was stealing all our silverware! A lot of work it was a great evening and it is such a good the well deserved winner and it was espe- goes on behind the scenes that many are not opportunity for us to thank all the locals for cially nice as all his family were there to help aware of and goes un-thanked. their continued support of the DHO. It was him celebrate including his son Colin who dry so we were able to spread out on to the lives in America. Speaking of the Freund The poor start to the season was quickly terrace and we were serenaded by two Alp family I was very pleased to hear that Andy forgotten and we had some amazing skiing horn players who played outside the Club Seaman had proposed to Anne Freund on with the members both on and of the piste and Room by the station. Thank you to all the Valentine’s Day. Congratulations to you both. many took home lasting memories and photos DHO members who helped to make this of the great days out they had with the DHO such a successful evening. The week after the Railway Cup was, of led ski groups. course, DHO race week when many regular I would like to take this opportunity to thank members are in Wengen to take part in the Peter Lightfoot commented that he had the the many members who helped and supported McMillan cup race and the Lucy Dicker best week’s skiing for a long time. It is very me during my four years as the DHO night slalom. We had great turn outs for both rewarding to hear such comments Manager and to say how much I have enjoyed races and despite the cold and poor visibility from members who have enjoyed skiing in leading the members around the Jungfrau for the McMillan cup we had 38 entrants. the DHO led groups. Many other members Region. I am looking forward to enjoying There was a very welcome sight at the finish were out with us enjoying the fresh snow holidays and participating in DHO races in Walter Steuri and his wife Margrit had set up that week. Lots of other races and events the future as I have done so in the past since a table and were serving hot wine and cheese. went on during the season including a couple becoming a DHO member in 1991. DHOJournal•2012•11
An Introduction to the next Wengen Manager - Andrew Davies
Skiing has excited me almost my whole on the first sunny day of the week. I have Leadership in 2000 where I spent one year life. My grandfather loved skiing on shared hundreds of these sorts of days in learning and practicing being safe in the a Sunday from his armchair in ski areas such as the Espace Killy, Bansko, mountains whilst coaching, guiding and Gloucestershire and I was thrilled to have Kitzbuhel, the Jungfrau region, Verbier, playing on skis, mountain bikes, in canoes, the opportunity to learn to ski on the dry Le Grand Massif, Les Diableret, Crans on foot and on rock. That winter we had 70 slopes of Hillend, Edinburgh whilst still at Montana, Sunday River, Loon Mountain and days on snow at the Nevis Range Scottish primary school. Canon 93. Ski centre, although not all of them were sunny and calm following a fresh snow fall! When I was 11 our Swiss friends invited me Having always enjoyed and considered to join them in their family home to ski on important socialising with my family and Since then I have worked in the outdoors snow for the first time. Then my Uncle friends, I was delighted to marry Hayley and facilitating the fun, skill and personal invited me to join him several years in become part of her large extended family. development of others as well as myself: succession to enjoy New Year in New Hayley’s family seemed to have more social organising holidays for my peers and my England. These were the years when it was events than my own! In terms of character family and planning developmental considered essential to be waiting for the my friends have often described me as being programmes for varying groups of people at chair lift to open in the morning and to catch similar to Baloo from the jungle book or work. the last one up at the end of the day. perhaps Tigger, the well known friend of We managed it most days despite a 2 hour Winnie the Pooh. Hayley and I enjoy being with people, drive from our accommodation to the slopes. supporting and participating in fun food and At 17 I sustained a basal skull fracture I met Hayley in 1998 at the Baptist Church fellowship indoors or out. We will be living crashing into a tree at Sunday River resort in in which I grew up and we were married in in Edinburgh until December and so if you New Hampshire; I now ski in a helmet and the church in 2002. During this period would like to get in touch you can do so by strongly encourage all with whom I ski to I found myself working with a wide email on wengen.manager@downhillonly. wear one also. Accompanying others skiing spectrum of people; I worked in sales, com . We are both looking forward to is a passion of mine, I really enjoy being a customer service, hospitality and staff- meeting all the members of the Downhill part of great days out on the hill or mountain; training. I already loved the mountains and Only club. whether it be an adventure in high winds and now I sought to use my skills in that poor visibility, a coffee and cake tour on a environment. I gained a place at the -23 day or the thrill of knee deep fresh snow Abernethy Trust School of Adventure 12•DHOJournal•2012 Race Results Winter 2011/12
HEINZ CUP TREASURE HUNT JANUARY INFERNO WEEK FUN RACE
RACE hEINZ CUP RACE FUN SLALOM DATE 29 December 2011 DATE 19 January 2012 TIME 09.00 – 10.00 Registration TIME 12.00 noon PISTE whole Area PISTE bumps CONDITIONS Soft new snow on good base, snowing most of the day CONDITIONS Soft with flat light
TEAMS OVERALL RESULTS 1ST Prize overall winners best result 1. Paul Zvegintzov 0.14 2. Cynthia Perkins 0.30 OVERALL RESULTS 3. Alastair Drew 0.50 1 Team Essen – Phil and Christine Comelio, Simon Williamson 4. lizzie Davis 0.64 & Robert Brignall 34 5. Michael Robinson 0.69 2 lizzie Davis, Helen Whittet, Jane Hall & Jane Dawson 33 6. John Pailthorpe 0.70 3 olvia Gordon, Andrew Woodcock, Susie Davies & 7. Carolyn Robinson 0.92 Emma Thompson 32 8. Robin James 1.06 4 Magnificent 7 – Alan, Genevieve & Elliot Norris, 9. John Woods 1.30 Juliet Quartermain, Keith, Cathy & Rory Lee 32 10. Terry Scholer 1.36 5 Team Gay – Geoffrey, Elizabeth, Freddie and Catherine Gay 31 11. Clare Jayes 1.49 6 lara, Giles & Richard Malin & Sarah Hirst-Malin 30.5 12. Jill Cameron 1.64 7 Jamie, Wills & Freddie Younger 29.5 13. Michael Cockerton 1.70 8 Jonathan Spicer, Thomas Baguley, Theo Taylor & Jane Horcajo 26 14. ian Perkins 1.82 15. Susie Davies 2.28 16. John Schrader 2.42 17. Cliff Nye 2.45 DHO Inferno results 18. brian Jayes 2.66 19. Martin West 2.87 RESULTS 20. heather Cockerton 3.39 Bib no. name Time 21. Chris Howitz 4.20 1302 Sean McCarthy 15.28,93 Bronze medal 22. Philip Hill 5.08 1273 Jeremy Howard 16.43,61 Bronze medal 23. Mike Austin 6.49 1428 Marguerite Nice 18.30,99 Bronze medal 24. Guy Clayton 7.09 1306 Turner Terry 18.43,46 25. Steve Nye 8.02 1378 Martin West 18.49,50 Bronze medal 26. Alastair Pink 8.46 1334 Peter Fairclough 20.23,34 1422 nicholas Taylor 20.54,82 970 Sheridan Killwick 21.44,31 LUCY DICKER RACE 1480 Robin James 22.30,16 1233 Jon Bumbaugh RACE luCY DICKER Parallel Slalom DATE 31st JANUARY TIME 18.00 PISTE Figler Nursery Slope CONDITIONS Hard Packed Snow – Snowing
1st Prize: Overall Winner. Lucy Maskey 2nd Jean-Daniel Gluck DHOJournal•2012•13
McMILLAN CUP RACE POLYTECHNIC CUP
RACE McMILLAN CUP DOWNHILL RACE POLYTECHNIC CUP - GIANT SLALOM DATE 2 February 2012 DATE 16 February 2012 TIME 12.00 TIME 12.45 PISTE ladies downhill (Tschuggen) PISTE lauberhorn CONDITIONS Pisted with flat light CONDITIONS Soft with flat light
OVERALL RESULTS OVERALL RESULTS 1. Jean Daniel Gluck 2.42 1. Jeremy Howard 26.32 McMillan and Stretcher cups 2. oliver Watts 26.39 2. Ed Perrott 2.43 3. hugh Tayler 26.95 big John and Open cups 4. Andrew Nolan 27.42 3. ueli Stahli 2.46 5. Sarah Hirst Malin 29.10 Jarvis cup 6. oskar Smith 29.37 4. Sean McCarthy 2.50 7. nigel Ley 29.48 5. nick Kennett 2.53 8. Giles Hirst Malin 29.67 novice and Bath Chair cups 9. Emma Thompson 30.20 6. Martin West 2.54 10. Alastair Drew 31.06 7. Maureen Fanshawe 3.03 11. Stephen Smith 31.12 Falken Ladies and Half Ton cups 12. Kate Nolan 32.18 8. Quentin Davis 3.12 13. Andrew Woodcock 34.06 Fountain cup 14. Tim Tayler 59.39 9. Martin Joas 3.13 Susie Davies DNF 10. lucy Maskey 3.15 Security and Lockhart cups 11. George Senior 3.17 KURVEREIN CRYSTAL RACE half Piste cup 12. brad Fowler 3.22 RACE KURVEREIN CRYSTAL 13. Patrick Branigan 3.30 DATE 8 March 2012 14. Don McCutchan 3.34 TIME 12 noon 15. Cain Gava 3.35 PISTE bumps to Marys 16. Godfrey Perrott 3.37 CONDITIONS Soft new snow on good base, snowing most of the day 17. Michael Oliver 3.38 18. Simon Williamson 3.40 Pairs race 19. Alice McCutchan 3.50 20. helen Whittett 3.52 OVERALL RESULTS 21. Peter Nicholson 4.12 1. John Pailthorpe & Dorine Borgers 3.34.50 22. Gerry Pritchard 4.17 2. Richard Hackett & Jane Dawson 3.36.52 23. Andy Seaman 4.26 3. liz Moore & Sina Cova 3.40.40 24. Myles Bessborough 4.32 4. Jenny Cova & Jo Williamson 4.35.06 25. John Polatch 4.33 5. Simon Williamson & J J Gooding 4.49.87 26. Phillip Hill 4.35 6. Alastair Drew & Lizzie Davis 4.54.44 27. Max Davies 4.42 7. Don McCutchan & Annemarie Verrijn Stuart 5.19.57 28. Ed Killwick 4.50 8. Fred Holt & Diana Dickenson 6.00.04 29. Merrill Knoph 4.58 9. barbara & David Mills 6.52.47 30. John Duckett 5.04 10. Robert Watson & Sarah Hirst Malin 7.49.09 31. Melvyn Birch 5.07 11. Merril & Shirley Knopf 10.12.00 32. Michael Maskey 5.15 12. Joanna & Stuart Hutton DNF 33. Deborah Flindall 5.16 7 pairs of non racers 34. Alan Norris 5.49 35. Richard Hackett 5.53 36. Michael Woodhall 6.33 37. Freddie Whitelaw 6.59 38. norman Freund 9.57 Ashes cup Alan Norris and his family together with the entire Hotel Caprice management team wish all DHO members a happy and safe Skiing Season.
We look forward to welcoming you at our Small Luxury Hotel, whether to stay in one of our beautifully appointed rooms with stunning mountain & valley views or to dine in our gourmet restaurant, voted number 1 in Wengen.
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ODLING CUP RACE COVA CUP RACE
RACE oDLING CUP RACE - SLALOM RACE COVA CUP RACE FUN SLALOM DATE 29 MARCH 2012 DATE 5 APRIL 2012 TIME 11.00 TIME 11.00 PISTE lauberhorn PISTE wixi CONDITIONS Sunny and a bit soft CONDITIONS Foggy, warm and very soft
OVERALL RESULTS OVERALL RESULTS Adults Teams 1. Geoffrey Gay 28.14 1. Residence Crocus 1.25.37 2. Tessa Lawrance 28.99 2. henry 1.46.26 3. lindsay Blaver-Mann 29.61 3. Josh 1.52.67 4. Mike Pascall 30.24 4. Snow Patrol 1.53.34 5. John Pailthorpe 30.49 5. Piste Bashers 1.55.65 6. Roger Scoones 30.69 6. The Unknown 1.56.29 7. Michael Scott 32.36 7. The Awesomes 1.56.70 8. Dermot Gilvary 32.58 8. white Yetis 2.02.29 9. Vivien Stern 33.23 9. STFC 2.29.68 10. lizzie Davis 33.40 10. Four Musketeers 2.31.92 11. Susie Davies 34.84 11. Torys Georgous Girls 2.59.65 12. Gillian Younger 35.02 12. The Red Vipers 3.45.22 13. Deborah Flindall 37.38 13. Shark Tacktics 5.01.75 14. Michael Woodhall 37.75 15. Sarah Hoyle 37.87 16. Elizabeth Willan 41.19 COGGINS AND EAGLES
Children Coggins New Year Championship 1. Elizabeth Gay 25.29 2. Freddie Gay 27.05 RACE Giant Slalom 3. Freddie Younger 27.06 PISTE bumps 4. leo Prest 29.94 CONDITIONS Sunshine with powder snow 5. Jago Prest 31.90 6. Xander Younger 33.01 OVERALL RESULTS Vor Laufer: Freddie Gay 26.85 Zac Coxon 30.34 COGGINS AND EAGLES Catherine Gay 30.94 Charlie Spicer 32.09 EAGLES SNOGGINS CUP RACE Patrick Ogrady Walsh 32.41 Tim Ogrady Walsh 32.44 RACE GIANT SLALOM Charlie Younger 32.59 DATE 16 February 2012 Mia Coxon 32.84 TIME 12.45 Angus Ogallagher 34.50 PISTE lauberhorn Tim D’arcy 35.84 CONDITIONS Soft with flat light Xander Younger 36.75
OVERALL RESULTS Also Raced. Ex Coggins etc 15. Michael Nolan 26.65 Libby Gay 26.43 16. Zac Hopkins 29.21 Freddie Gay 26.85 17. will Mucklow 29.28 Freddie Younger 28.25 18. Thomas Booth 29.86 Wills Younger 28.56 19. Charlie Kidd 30.24 Caroline Gay 30.25 20. beatrice Ley 30.73 Anna Gibson DNF lara Hirst Malin DNF 16•DHOJournal•2012
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I have now completed seven years in the chair as President and at last, as some of you might say, I am moving over
President’s Report 2012 Max Davies
Michael Woodhall, whom many of you the summit of Ebnefluh across the glacier occasional talks in the evening and there is already know, is proposed to be taking to the Hollandia hut where we refreshed an increasing trend for members of the Club over at the AGM. Michael has been ourselves with hot chocolate and a chat. to use it for special occasions. The Club coming to Wengen for many years, has a From there we continued down the Room is open most mornings from 10am great love of the place and has invested in Lötschental to the village of Blatten where onwards as a meeting place for non-skiers an apartment here. Despite breaking his we enjoyed lunch in the little Eidelweiss to have a coffee, use the wi-fi or read leg in a spectacular crash in the McMillan Hotel. If you have never experienced a day (yesterday’s!) papers. All this is a great boon Cup some years ago he is still an like that it is something to aim for. It is an on days when conditions are difficult. enthusiast. I wish him every success and entirely different experience from piste- am confident that I am leaving the skiing, wonderful though that is in the Even if you are not able to visit Wengen Presidency in a safe pair of hands. Jungfrau region. There is a whole new world every year, you of course still receive the up there behind those magical mountains, the DHO Journal to keep you in touch and The Club seems to go from strength to Jungfrau, Monch and Eiger. To know more up-to-date. Your subscription also helps us strength. We have a very solid membership about it speak to the Wengen Manager or me train young up-and-coming British skiers, base, with a presence in Wengen which who can tell you what to expect. and of course the young are the future of the increases each year. It is a great pleasure to club. So you will not be surprised to have see returning long-standing members who There is so much going on in the DHO, this read recently that an increase in subscription have not been here for a number of years. is a club which organises so much for its is proposed for this year. Despite which, for They in particular enjoy the new Club Room members. It has a comfortable Club House many members it will amount to a decrease, in the Eiger, now in its fourth season. The with all the facilities it offers. Our resident since many were paying both the old old Curling Club hut for which we all had, Manager organises and leads skiers around subscription and the £30 levy. There is no and some of us still have, affection, already the Jungfrau region six days of the week. levy now and the proposed increase is less seems a distant memory. Our new premises On the social side there is the Club meeting than the levy. make it easier for members to meet and get every evening (occasionally not on to know each other in comfortable and Saturdays, the Manager’s rest day) and the The snow conditions this year were excellent, spacious surroundings. official drinks party every Tuesday either in and this of course meant it was a particularly the Club Room or in a local hotel. There are busy year for the Wengen Manager and her We were particularly blessed with good snow weekly club races. The most prestigious of helpers. Sheridan Killwick‘s report will this year for most of the season. I organised these is the McMillan Cup, always held on have all the details of that. For my part I a couple of heli-skiing touring days at the the first Thursday of February which is now would like to pay tribute for the fine work end of the season which were brilliant. One unique in the Alps in that all the racers depart she has done in her four years here. I am is a great favourite of mine. We skied from from the start-line together. There are sad, as I know many of you are, that she has 18•DHOJournal•2012
decided to move on and will not be with us particularly grateful for that during my time These include Vice Presidents Michael this coming season. She has done a great job as President; it is what has made the Club Woodhall and Susie Davies, Hon Treasurer for us, particularly with regard to arranging Room the success it is, and my experience Duncan Lonie, Edward Perrott our legal skiing, which after all is what we are of it so much more enjoyable. On the other adviser and Company Secretary (who is also essentially about. She has been a very safe side of the coin are the issues of Governance a fearsome ski racer!), Sarah Hoyle who is pair of hands and many of you will have and Health and Safety. In order that most DHO Secretary, Elaine MacLeod our good memories of wonderful days skiing members can take these matters for granted, Membership Secretary; and Freddie with her and her assistants both on and off they have to be seriously addressed, checked Whitelaw our Hon Editor who knows as piste. On behalf of us all I thank her and and carefully monitored. This includes Club much if not more than anyone else about Sean McCarthy. The work of the Manager insurances, finances and this year in the history of the DHO; Christian Wells has became so much greater with the advent of particular the re-drafting of our Articles advised in great detail on Insurance matters. the new Club Room and before any other of Association and Rules. I have to say a We are lucky to have in our organisation arrangements were put in place they huge thank you for the able and thorough members with these very important shouldered much of that responsibility work done by Dr Huw Alban Davies, Susie specialist skills who are happy to contribute without letting it impair the arrangements for Davies, Elaine MacLeod, Edward Perrott, their expertise for the benefit of the Club. skiing. We wish Sean and Sheridan the very and everyone else who contributed. This Thanks must also go to those in Wengen best for their future and hope to see you in has been a herculean task and the result is who give us so much support, in particular Wengen again. a document that I hope can confidently be the Wengen Tourist Office, the Railway and safely filed so that we can all return to the those who look after and build the pistes. Elsewhere in the Journal you will find an pleasures of the mountains and skiing. They all make us welcome and are introduction to Sheridan’s successor, Andrew unfailingly helpful. Davies. Finally I would like to express my thanks to several people who have made huge I hope you all have a great summer and look Coggins is a particularly important part of contributions to the DHO during the last forward to seeing you in Wengen in good the DHO. Its continuous history goes back a year. The Racing and Training Section run snow in the coming season. Do please come long way; many of our present members “did by Ingie Christophersen MBE, and chaired to the AGM in London on 29th November Coggins”, many joined the DHO because by Jamie Rankin, has had an excellent year. at the Imperial Hotel in Russell Square. This their children or even grandchildren “did This is important for our younger members will be my last one as President and I will try Coggins”. It goes on beautifully run by Bob who as I have already said, are the future of to put on something original for Members. Eastwood aided by Rachel Anderton. They the Club. have expanded it into Eagles and Adult Thank you all for your friendship during the Coggins, another great section of our Club. The growth of the DHO in recent years has last seven years. There has been hard work, Congratulations to them both for running necessitated the creation of various sub- but with your support it has been hugely it so well. They became engaged at the committees; the chairmen of these, Brian satisfying, and most of all it has been beginning of the year and married in August, Phillips, Richard Hackett and Norman immensely enjoyable. I’m sure the Club has so congratulations to them both and we wish Freund have all put a huge amount of time into come through all the developments of the them all health and happiness. establishing the “New Way” under the new last few years in a strong and healthy state constitution and their work is appreciated. with its essential concepts intact. During these early years of the new Club We continue to attract a very diverse and Room there has never been a shortage of The rest of the sub-committee and main interesting group of people whose one help and support from members. I have been committee members cannot go unmentioned. common focus is skiing. DHOJournal•2012•19
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Coggins Report 2012 Bob Eastwood
It was a bit of a strange start to the season After the festivities of a very wet New Year’s with the snow arriving very late and the Eve in Wengen, the Coggins hit the fresh local ski area not opening. Coggins are snow on the mountain for a further four days, not easily beaten though and the before being stopped by bad weather at the Christmas holidays 2011 saw us heading end of the week. We had another race for the to Mürren for the first time. New Year’s Championship, again on Bumps where we saw Zac Coxon winning ahead of There we found lots of lovely powder snow Catherine Gay. When the radios failed, due to play in and a new area to explore. Back at to the cold perhaps, Bob and Rachel ran the Kleine Scheidegg, when it finally opened, whole race using mobile phones!! Like the Coggins at the Männlichen Lift we had the novel experience of the piste Coggins, we never give up. markers going in as we descended to Arven. We were the very first skiers of the season on Again there was only one main half term During the first week of the Easter holidays the Brandegg run . We were not able to race holiday in Britain but we are now getting we had 18 Coggins racing on the Lauberhorn; during the week before Christmas but we used to it and had extra leaders, Fiona and many thanks to Heinz Von Allmen for the had great fun learning to ski in the powder Charlie, ready to help. The main feature loan of the racing equipment and for closing snow. of the week was the cold, with consistent the slope for our use. Thanks also to Lisa temperatures of under -20C. Coggins were (Fairfull) and René (Seiler) for helping Bob Wengen was in full swing for the Christmas subjected to “adequate clothing inspections” lay the course in double quick time. It was a races which took place on Bumps in cold before we set off in the morning, and extra shame the fog came in but still a thrill for and snowy conditions. Our vorlaufer Libby hot chocolate stops were taken to keep warm. the kids to be racing on part of the world Gay set the pace, and the girls showed the Quote of the week, “I’m not normally this cup track. The Gay twins, Catherine and way in the race with Isabel Egger (1st) and quiet but my mouth is frozen shut!!” We are Caroline fought it out for first place with Caroline Gay (2nd) fighting it out for first happy to report that there were no frost Caroline taking the Easter trophy, 1st boy place. Charlie Spicer hit form to take the 3rd injuries amongst our groups or their teachers. was Sam Waller in third place overall. place and 1st boy. Several former Coggins Conditions were pretty soft that week, but couldn’t resist joining in and raced after the 25 Coggins contested the Mid Term Cup on the snow remained good until the lifts started Coggins. Parents helped with keeping the Bumps in cold and dull conditions. The boys closing for the end of the season, and so racers entertained and safe during the race, were back on form, and the race was won by another exciting season of Coggins skiing and with putting all the race equipment away Toby Francis by just over half a second from came to a close. afterwards. Zac Coxon. Katy Ditchfield was 1st girl in third place overall. DHOJournal•2012•Journal•2012•21
I know that this has read like a race report is very good news and shows we must be their social time together as well, and met up but remember that the Coggins race takes doing something right. in the Club Room to play cards. The group only an afternoon in a fun packed week. had a wonderful weeks skiing over the whole For some it is the highlight of the week for Gosh! This sounds like a school report. OK. Jungfrau region. others just another fun activity. Looking Coggins are “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to back through the seasons I can see know!” Is that better kids? individuals gradually climbing through the rankings with some finally coming out on Thanks top before moving on from Coggins, others get the racing bug earlier and move on to Eagles Grateful thanks to the many parents who race training but can still be seen in our gave their time to help with races and of “extra racers” category in the results. To ski The famous DHO teenage group live up to course to the people of Wengen who make a race course at speed one must first ski well. their name and fly around the mountains. it such a great place to ski. To this end the Coggins training programme The original group name lives on with of on piste, off piste, bumps, jumps and the “Snogg’ins trophy”. (The mystery of Special thanks must go Viktor Gertsch for general mayhem and is a brilliant starting the apostrophe will become part of DHO his generous gift of Slalom poles and place for a lifetime of skiing. myth but is actually down to a certain stubbies, also to Ercole Famiglietti of the person’s messy hand writing) This year Swiss Ski School and to Heinz Von Allmen Ever increasing skill levels amongst the the trophy was contested at half term on of the Jungfrau Bahn for their continued help older Coggins have encouraged younger Lauberhorn and won by Michael Nolan and support. Of course I must mention the ones to tremendous achievements. I am ahead of Zak Hopkins. Coggins Team whose enthusiasm and immensely proud of the standards of professionalism makes it all happen and my skiing achieved by the Coggins as well as by The idea of Eagles is to provide sociable and life a little easier, Coggins coaches, Rachel, their humour and behaviour. The standard of challenging skiing for good skiers under the Fiona, Anya, Charlie, Karen and Julia. their skiing as a group on the mountain and guidance of a top quality young coach. Feed Eagles leaders, Henry and Phil. of their behaviour in the restaurants often back to me suggests this works very well and attracts favourable comments and they are they were having a ball skiing from first to Congratulations to Rachel for gaining her a credit to themselves and the club. In a last lift every day. Over the February half Level 3 Coaches Award to add to her list of season where there were less guests in term a large group of Eagles were rocketing qualifications. Wengen and a general fall in business, all over the mountain with their glorious Coggins showed an increase of 10% which leader, Phil Pickles. They spent much of
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Josh Deru Lauren Maynard British Schoolboys Meiringen, Switzerland 2012
The Kings College Ski Team arrived en getting very close to qualifying for the This year Glan Williams had the brilliant masse on our gigantic coach just before Olympics/World Cup) and Benjamin idea to have a Plate competition – which midnight on Friday - all 14 boys and 14 Stammers both from Millfield, George meant all the boys had at least 2 runs. mad parents – we might not be the best Logut from Kingswood House and Nicholas The assembled cheering parents and coaches team at the Schoolboys – but we certainly Myrsep France from Bethany. were treated to a comedy of crashes in the are always the biggest! last leg – with our own Kings A winning. We awoke Saturday morning bright and (If there is any kind and generous DHO Once again, lovely Simon from the ski shop early for the usual cracking Viktoria member out there who would like to donate next to the hotel opened up specially to kit breakfast followed by a full day of GS a super portable PA system for this race it out any who needed equipment – which training. Thick fog blanketed the mountain would be greatly appreciated – it is the only was hugely convenient as we missed the – though we did manage to get a peep of teeny thing that would make things even Saturday morning bun fight. Snow beautiful clear skies up at Alpen Tower to more exciting!) There was one unfortunate conditions promised to be perfect – as big reveal a breathtaking view so gorgeous that injury – young Daniel Versloot from the up dumps had arrived all over the Alps. The even teenage boys stopped to take photos! and coming Sherborne team, was charging Viktoria were their usual efficient, well oiled down the course having a super run – and machine – all keys waiting in reception On Sunday all the teams were hugely excited had a nasty crash just on the last gate. He and a customised ski tuning room that is for the most popular event of the competition was unable to race on Monday – but bravely surely the best at any race! Due to the heavy – the Parallel Slalom. Sadly once we all got rallied for the slalom on Tuesday – where he snowfall and icy conditions underneath – the up to Bidmi no one could see two feet in had an excellent top 15 second run time. avalanche risk was great – so no off-piste front of them – so the race was postponed for for any testosterone fuelled daredevils. This an hour. Fortune smiled upon us all – when The atmosphere was electric for the paral- year’s races promised to be fantastic with things cleared up enough to race. And what lel races – all the spectators thoroughly over 150 boys competing from over 30 a race! The U19 final featured two of the top enjoyed it. Despite a fierce drive to outski schools. (I count all the individual schools school ski teams – Tonbridge A vs Reed’s their opponents - all the boys showed lovely as well!) – with Reed’s the winners! The U15 parallel sportsmanship after each run – shaking final was between a scratch team made up of hands like proper gentleman – a credit to all The DHO were out in force with record Dulwich (B) and Nicholas Myrsep France their parents! numbers - Josh Deru, Will and Sam Leavitt, and Alex White (Kandahar) vs Cowbridge B Luke Maynard and Jamie Saunders from – with Dulwich B winning. Sunday night’s lively team captains’ meeting King’s College. Also competing were featured some entertaining mini dramas – para-Olympian James Whitley (who is 24•DHOJournal•2012
our own Ingie Christophersen – never one to mince words – kept all in their place! With the debates amicably settled – the bibs were tossed to the waiting team captains – and everyone was off to dinner and an early bed.
On Monday morning we were dismayed to have yet more pea soup conditions – actually that is an insult to peas everywhere – it was worse than pea soup! The visibility was so awful the poor fellow who was to be boss of all the gatekeepers Adam Nicol (a thankless job if ever there was one) actually got lost with all the clip boards! Luckily his timing was eventually impeccable and he arrived just as the first intrepid forerunners were whizzing down – bang on time. Again – we were lucky and the visibility on the course improved dramatically. Luke Maynard
College in third. Nicholas Myrsep France bagged the bronze in JN1 Slalom - with (Bethany) came 8th in the first run and 7th Tom Doyle in 1st and the exotically named in the second run (CH2). James Whitley Calixte Mestelan from Aiglon in 2nd. (Millfield) came 6th in the first run and 5th in the second. Jamie Saunders was sadly a Next it was the Children’s turn – and again DNF for the first run – but managed a highly the DHO were impressive with two on the commendable 9th in CH1 in the second run. podium. Mizuki O’Hara was sensational In Junior 1 – in first place England Team from Aiglon – in first place for CH2 – member Tom Doyle from Millfield, in followed in eerily dejavu-ish order by his second, James Sieber from Reed’s and in teammate from Aiglon Hugo Ng in second third place it was Hobie Greenfield from and Luke Maynard in third. In CH1 the Aiglon who just edged out George Logut winner was again Finlay Davies from by a mere .11. Junior 2 winners were GB Danetre School with Morgan Lynn Davies Team star Nick Moynihan in 1st place from from Reed’s in 2nd followed by Ben Shaw Tonbridge, England Team member James from Abbey Gate College in 3rd place. Stevenson from Aiglon in 2nd followed by Nicholas Myrsep France was 7th in CH2 in Jamie Saunders Samuel Stephens from Reed’s in 3rd. The both runs of the slalom and James Whitley lucky boy fastest enough to win the GS was 6th in CH2 in the second run. Jamie One always hopes that when one volunteers unregistered DHO training prize was Hal Saunders skied very well in both runs to for gatekeeping duty one receives a set of Smith from Dulwich College. finish in the top 10 for CH1. gates where no one crashes – sadly dear readers – this was not the case for yours The final day of the competition featured Special mention must go to the smashing truly. Gate 30 – or ‘Hamburger Hill’ as I the slalom. The juniors were first out of the Leavitt twins (or the Leavittae as I liked to came to know it was a tricky bit of piste after start gate. Tonbridge’s Nick Moynihan’s first call them) – brand new to racing they were a ridge – and many an unsuspecting boy run time of 37.71 proved just too awesome thrown in at the deep end and acquitted went down here! Happily – there were some to beat – his second run wasn’t too shabby themselves beautifully. Sam finished in the brilliant recoveries and most of them carried either, and he easily skied away with first middle of a competitive field in one of the on to finish – showing their mettle. place in Junior 2 by over 2 seconds – quite Slalom runs – and Will kept a cool head an achievement against stiff competition. during the red hot parallel slalom - muscle-ing The Children One GS winners were, in first James Stevenson from ski racing giants a key recovery to win it for his team. place, Finlay Davies of Danetre School, Aiglon College was second followed by William Feneley of Fakenham High in sec- Samuel Stephens from Reed’s in third place. Best British School team overall was ond and Morgan Lynn Davies from Reed’s The DHO junior boys did very well in the awarded to (quelle surprise!) Aiglon 1, in in third. In Children 2: the DHO were SL overall – all finishing in the top 10 with second was Tonbridge 1 and in third Reed’s ably represented with fast new boy Mizuki Josh leading the way in 7th followed closely A. In the Unregistered Team category the O’Hara of Aiglon in first, Hugo Ng of Aiglon by George Logut in 8th (4th in J1) and Ben winners were Harrow in first, Millfield 2 in in second and Luke Maynard from King’s Stammers in 10th position (5th in J1). Josh second and Abbeygate A in 3rd. DHOJournal•2012•25
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Poppy Hartley and Sophie Lismore (inset) DHOJournal•2012•27
Saturday 28 January saw the resort full of happy, chatty, smiling schoolgirls, some embarking from minibuses, full to the brim with the vast piles of luggage whilst those who had arrived earlier were ready to meet their trainers for the day British Schoolgirls’ Races Anne Taylor and Sarah Robinson
Last year the schoolgirls arrived in Flaine Monday started off cold and overcast with to a resort of dry clear roads, sunshine the girls inspecting the Giant Slalom before and very little snow. So little, in fact, that the race began. There were some very good they could not use one of the lifts. This times and it was amazing to see the standard year the snow arrived with a vengeance of the girls compared to a few years ago. just before Christmas and kept on Emily Evans (Kandahar) came down in the coming. Saturday 28 January saw the fastest time followed by Charlotte Guest resort full of happy, chatty, smiling (Strathallan). Honor Clissold (Richmond) schoolgirls, some embarking from mini- was third and first in Children 2 with Katya buses, full to the brim with the vast piles Williams (Kandahar) the best of the children of luggage that seem to be essential, not 1 girls in 14th overall. Poppy was the best to mention the large ski and boot bags, of the DHO girls in 15th place with Sophie whilst those girls who had arrived earlier Lismore next, and second in children 1, were waiting outside the ESF ready to followed by Sophie Stammers. meet their trainers for the day. The Kandahar were the best team with the DHO finishing tenth out of fifty one, just Sunday was very cold and again even more ahead of Sophie Stammers’ Millfield. girls congregated to meet their trainers. The DHO prize of a week’s training at the After some warm up skiing the girls October camp for the best unregistered practiced a mixture of giant slalom and children 1 girl, who is not a member of ski Sophie Stammers slalom techniques, stopping for a quick racing club, went to Lily Woodbridge from lunch in one of the two restaurants that offer Lambrook. many surprises. As the quarter finals and a special menu. Many schools brought extra semi-finals approached things were getting girls and it was after the training session that The parallel slalom, the most exciting and much closer and to speed up things the racers their final teams were selected. The DHO fiercely contested race of the event, was set were towed up to the start behind a skidoo. was represented this year by Sarah Adams, up quickly after the Giant Slalom. Snow There were many screams and laughs but for Safia Dale and Sophie Lismore. Also there, had started to fall and it was very difficult some this was the most exciting part of the representing their schools, were Poppy to see the start so instead of the usual flag event! The final was a closely fought battle Hartley (Bryanston), Lucy Maynard waving, the start and finish officials had to between Kandahar and Strathallan, with the (Wycombe Abbey) and Sophie Stammers communicate by radio. The teams are seeded latter winning by a short head. The DHO (Millfield). on the results of the first run of Giant Slalom were knocked out by the Kandahar in the so the early rounds went quickly with not too third round. 28•DHOJournal•2012
Tuesday was slightly warmer. The race The Kandahar were again the best team with DHO finished 8th and Sophie Stammers’ started just after 9am and again the standard the DHO girls in 7th and Sophie Stammers’ Millfield were 9th. was very good. Heavy snow fell consistently Millfield 8th. and the pisteurs had to work very hard to Sophie Lismore is to be congratulated on keep the race track safe, with instructors and The combined was won by Emily, with getting on the podium in all three categories, coaches sliding the course after every few Charlotte second and Thomasine Nilson- whilst Poppy managed it twice – best racers. The tables were turned this time, Wrede (Reeds) third. Honor was the best unregistered racer in the Giant Slalom and with Charlotte beating Emily by a very small of the children 2 girls in 4th place overall, 2nd in the combined. margin. Anna Henderson (Kandahar) was closely followed by Anna and Alice Taylor the best of the children 2 girls in fourth place (St Mary’s) all in the top ten. Katya was the The races were organised by the Ladies’ overall while Alexandra Lillywhite best in Children 1 with Alexandra second Ski Club and, in addition to the DHO, were (Woodbridge) was the best in children 1. and Sophie Lismore third, just ahead of sponsored by Basecamp, BASI, Beauty Sarah was the best of the DHO girls finishing Sophie Stammers and Poppy. Sarah and Store, Incline Sports, Kandahar, Meritz of fourth in her age group and she was followed Lucy finished just behind them. Not Chichester, MPI/MTGY, Nimrod Capital, by Sophie Stammers, Sophie Lismore - again surprisingly, the Kandahar were the best SCGB and Ski Bartlett. second in children 1 - and Lucy. team, ahead of Strathallan and Reeds. The
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Highlights there were plenty of and mostly in the shape of new, permanent and excellent trainers
Racing & Training Ingrid Christophersen
Another year, another article, a few more Highlights there were plenty of and mostly wrinkles, but all positive on the Racing in the shape of new, permanent and excellent and Training front. New this year was our trainers. For me to relax, know that the train- trip to Landgraaf in May, the 500 metre ers are doing their job, that they will organise long indoor snow slope in Holland, for fitness and ski- tuning after skiing without a real BASS-pointed race. I long for the me having to hassle them is a huge bonus. day when the DHO-generated Snoasis in Ben Porter is an ex-trainee – he bothered me Suffolk will come to fruition (go to www. for some time to allow him to come and train snoasis.co.uk) £250 million anyone and it and I succumbed to his pestering. What a is yours!! windfall! Hard working, supremely conscientious and pro-active, he epitomises The other camps followed in quick succession all that is good and honest in a trainer. Add – Summer Training on the Hintertux to the mix Kenny from Scotland and Natasha Glacier, October on the Mölltal Glacier, from Poland, who could wish for more? BARSC Championships in Champoluc Long may they stay and long may they before Christmas, Christmas and New Year continue to want to spend their skiing time in Wengen, which included the hugely with DHO trainees. My cup runneth over. popular all-comers flood-lit parallel slalom on the nursery slopes – over 100 entrants Jud Rabey is 12 and has been with us for a and statistics ably provided by our House couple of years. He is a sturdy lad as you Father Graham Crouch - the quite excellent can surmise from the picture. Jud needed English Championships in Bormio in to get his points down in order to qualify February and the British Championships in for the British Championships and his only Meribel at Easter. And in-between Anglo chance was the Scottish Championships in Scottish races in Les Houches, Schoolboys Courchevel immediately before the start of races in Meiringen,The Welsh, Aiglon Cup, the British. Ever an optimist, this time, the Interschools, the Scottish Championships. however, I thought gravity was against us! There is no longer a start or an end to the Come the day of the slalom in Courchevel. season, it is a continuous circus and no let-up Who is that skiing down the course; I did in the summer with R&T meetings, BARSC not know Tomba or Killy or the Hermanator meetings and Skiers Trust Meetings. where competing in the Scottish. This chap Jud Rabey 32•DHOJournal•2012
(Left) Exhaustion at British Championships
(Above) Graham Crouch and Ingie at Champoluc for BARSC is clearly some local genius who has sneaked There was real and genuine improvement above all enjoy our skiing, enjoy the his way into the race. Hang on; he’s wearing all around, and as the new Performance competition, but let us not write ourselves a DHO catsuit. What a cheek! Jud crossed Director of British Ski and Snowsport, off because we do not succeed as Children the finish-line with seconds to spare and if Paddy Mortimer, is trying to tell us: there is or Juniors. Inevitably children who spend there is any way I could bottle and sell the negative correlation between success in the winters in the Alps will beat us initially, transformation that took place between the senior years and training intensity in but there is no basis for thinking we will top of the race and the finish, well, the DHO childhood; there is no systematic correlation not catch them up and even overtake them. would be inundated by would-be champions. between early competitive success and Courage mes enfantes, we are en route and Wow!! success as a senior. In other words, let us nothing will stop us.
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DHO wannabe racers decided they needed more race training before the event and so Vroni Famiglietti, (Ercole’s wife), tried to turn them into hard core racers in all of 3 days!
Amateur Inter Club Championships Gstaad 2012, Liz Moore
This year The Eagles Ski Club from completely hooked while the rest of the enjoyable and will participate again! Gstaad hosted the 5th AICC. The event is teams had already been won over and now becoming increasingly popular with clubs all the more so under Vroni’s tuition! We left Wengen on Friday 9th using a hired from all over Europe while racing However, I am not 100% sure about our bus and private cars. Mike Oldham, Sandy standards are reaching new heights. president but we are working on this! Ommanney, Lizzie Davis and Penny With this in mind, we DHO wannabe Perhaps it should become a pre-requisite Goodwin came along as supporters with racers decided we needed more race for all DHO presidents to participate in race Mike driving the bus to and from Gstaad. training before the event and so Vroni training?! Anyway, thank you so much all Well beyond the call of duty and much Famiglietti, Ercole’s wife, tried to turn those who raced and I do hope you found it appreciated so thank you Mike. us into hard core racers in all of 3 days! Vroni is the most amazing racer herself and a great coach and even if some of us never quite succeeded in becoming star performers we at least knew what we should be doing!
The DHO sent 4 teams to Gstaad, consisting of the following members.
Diana Mathias, Lucy Nelson, Sarah Hirst Malin, Vroni Famiglietti, Sina Cova, Sally Ireland, Liz Moore,Mary Laure Eby, Richard Hackett, Martin West, Robert Goodwin, Jean Daniel Gluck, Martin Yates, Robin James, Tony Davis and Max Davies.
Diana Mathias and Lucy Nelson were trainees together in their teens. Diana, who came over from Vail, USA and Lucy from UK, reminisced about those freezing training days on Salzegg - nothing changes! Sarah, who had never raced before, is now The DHO Team 34•DHOJournal•2012
We were given an excellent dinner at the Gstaad Yacht Club that evening with so much to eat and drink that I was beginning to think it was a plan by the Eagles Ski Club Wengen Worthies 1 Fredy Fuchs to handicap the opposition! However, we all raced on Saturday doing two runs of a GS and managed to walk away with a gold Freddie Whitelaw medal for the fastest 60+ male awarded to Jean Daniel Gluck, 2 silver individual medals, 60 + women for Liz Moore and 45+ women for Vroni Famiglietti as well as a silver for women overall to Vroni! Also silver team medals for 60+ women involving Sina Cova, Sally Ireland, Mary
Laure Eby and Liz Moore, as well as 60+ Jean-Daniel Gluck men represented by Jean Daniel Gluck, Richard Hackett, Robert Goodwin and Martin West. I thought a pretty good result all things considered!
In the evening, we were guests of the Eagles at a Gala dinner in their amazing Club Room, the Eagles Nest, located at the top of the Wassernergrat ski lift which they also own! It was a beautiful day and in a stun- ning setting . Some skied down afterwards whilst others took the chair lift enjoying the spectacular view of Gstaad by night.
It was a harmonious and fun event and we hope next year, when the event will be Tony Davis hosted by SAS in Zermatt, we can encourage even more DHO members to participate. Please do get in touch with me at [email protected] or on +41 79 421 3194 if you wish to join in the fun . We will have some race training at Christmas and again just before the Races which take place over the weekend of 9/10 March. You can visit the DHO website for more information and photos!
Until next season... Vroni Farmiglietti
West, Goodwin, Hackett and Gluck
Lucy Nelson DHOJournal•2012•35 Wengen Worthies 1 Fredy Fuchs Freddie Whitelaw
Switzerland has several world renowned Wengen Schoolboys team competing in the sporting events each year. Such as the Golf Montgomery Cup (a team-race run annually) Tournament in Crans Montana, Athletics and Fredy is here shown receiving his in Zurich, Show Jumping and many other winners medal from Field Marshal Viscount sports. All take place in or adjacent to Montgomery at the Montgomery Cup in major centres of population - with one 1954. major exception. The International Lauberhorn Ski Race, its only genuine By 1960 Fredy was attempting to qualify for international rival in prestige terms being the Swiss Team to go to the Squaw Valley the Hahnenkamm in Austria. Olympics (at this time he was regarded as a natural member of the Swiss 2nd team) The Lauberhorn is Switzerland’s largest when he had an accident which sidelined sports event, with 38,000 visitors on the him and as he says, this was the luckiest Saturday and a total of 66,000 over the accident because it forced him to pursue weekend, which is the maximum the railway another career. can currently transport up and down the mountain in the time available. Fredy today His new career took him into the railway, joining the WAB as an Engineering It is an incredibly impressive record for a The Lauberhorn’s “father” was Ernst Gertsch Apprentice and as well as working all day, small village of a mere 1,100 inhabitants. and his race is now the oldest race on the he attended to his engineering qualifications Of course it doesn’t just happen, there is a international calendar. The first race was in at night school and each Saturday. By the team of people who work tirelessly for the 1930. Despite a belief in some quarters that time he was 27 years old, he was appointed Lauberhorn Ski Race Organising Committee. Ernst was indestructible, it was clear that by head of Winter Sports for the whole area. And they, most certainly, do make it happen. 1970 a succession needed to be created. And And it was in this capacity that most of us this was where Fredy came in. came in contact with him at his office up One such member of the Organising at Kleine Scheidegg. As a consequence he Committee is Honorary DHO member, Born and bred in Wengen, Fredy was a very was a vital cog in the works of running the Fredy Fuchs. He has just retired from his good skier and racer (although he modestly Lauberhorn from getting equipment up the position of Vice President of the OK suggests he was “only second rank”). mountain, ensuring the pistes and race tracks (Organising Committee) after 42 years. He progressed from being a member of the were all prepared and getting competitors and spectators up and down the mountain as efficiently as possible.
Fredy joined Ernst Gertsch on the Lauberhorn Organising Committee and spent 5 years with him before Ernst was succeeded by his son Viktor. At which point, Fredy and Viktor became vice President and President respectively of the OK for the following 42 years. And this year after the Lauberorn race, Fredy finally retired from the OK. As the younger of the two, his colleague Viktor will remain for another 2 years as President.
Fredy remains a goodwill Ambassador for the Lauberhorn race, a race which is as successful, popular and prestigious as it is, in no small part due to his efforts.
Fredy with Field Marshal Montgomery 36•DHOJournal•2012
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Tim Ashburner is a longstanding and highly respected member of the DHO British Ski Racing Publicity Tim Ashburner
Tim Ashburner is a longstanding and away. This was the body which had taken more important FIS and Olympic events highly respected member of the DHO. over administration of all disciplines: when we are represented. I hope others He joined the club in 1954, he raced Alpine, Nordic, Biathlon, Freestyle etc who read this will have better ideas. internationally, he was a pretty good ski from the British Ski Federation which had The attractive Scottish Ski Club Journal jumper too, and he has written the replaced the fallen National Ski Federation produces extensive summaries of downhill definitive book on the history of ski originally set up in 1964. and slalom races up north. To be a true Year jumping. He has a Gold DHO badge, Book, however, it should also include reports a Gold Racing Arrow and the Club During the few years it had in overall on the huge growth of Scottish Nordic skiing. Skiing Award. In addition he was, back charge, Snowsports GB never produced any There are now many Scottish ski clubs, and in the “dark ages”, the editor of the DHO Journal to tell the skiing world what was there is, for instance, a very healthy rivalry Journal. going on, British Land generously and between the Huntly Nordic Club and the loyally sponsored our National Alpine Cairngorm Biathlon and Nordic club. So when he writes that there is something Championships at Tignes for some years Like the DHO, these clubs all have their own wrong in the ski world mainly to do with the without getting more than desultory web sites, but surely nothing compares with fact that there is no overall publicity vehicle summaries in the press which mentioned a “coffee table” journal to bring everyone such as used to exist from 1920 to 1971, then only the names of the winners. The SCGB’s together. called the British Ski Year Book, we should, publication “Ski and Board” which appears perhaps, listen. We may not entirely agree 3 times annually, barely mentions these I read that over a million Brits now ski with his solution, but there is no doubt that championships either. regularly. Most are Alpine skiers, but I am he has identified a major problem with the reminded of the spectacular growth in the administration of the competition side of our So how is this huge void in publicity to be numbers taking up cross country skiing when sport. If this precipitates correspondence and filled? The older generation will remember Pippa Middleton, famous for providing the discussion for future Journals, all well and with admiration the “British Ski Year Book” Rear View of the year as chief bridesmaid good. We look forward to the hornet’s nest edited by Arnold (later Sir Arnold) Lunn to her sister to her sister the Duchess of he may have stirred up. from 1920 to 1971 on behalf of the SCGB Cambridge at last year’s Royal Wedding, and the Alpine Ski Club. Its demise was safely completed the 56 mile Vassaloppet His letter follows: mourned throughout the skiing world. It was from Salem to Mora in Sweden on 4th March as if Wisden itself had ceased publication this year in a most creditable time of 7 hrs I am anxious to see the re-establishment of a and the followers of cricket had no more 13 minutes. She and her brother James, who National body to take charge of organising journal of record. also finished, had just two weeks of training, National Ski Championships and select and and there were many other Brits in the field manage National teams. If a Year Book cannot be produced at of 15,800. present, an inexpensive answer might be for By the time the 2012 Journal appears it the DHO Journal, the Kandahar Review, and With all good wishes will be two years since our last such body, Ski and Board to devote two pages to Snowsports GB was wound up after National Championships both senior and Tim Ashburner sponsorship and Government funding melted Junior, once these are restarted, and to the 38•DHOJournal•2012 DHOJournal•2012•39
It was the day of the Coronation, there were to be street parties, army parades and RAF fly pasts and about half the occupants of the road were shortly to gather round one little 12 inch black and white TV in the local doctor’s house The Expedition Freddie Whitelaw Coronation Day To one particular 10 year old boy on the morning of Tuesday June 2nd 1953, the day promised to be quite exciting. It was the day of the Coronation, there were to be street parties, army parades and RAF fly pasts and about half the occupants of the road were shortly to gather round one little 12 inch black and white TV in the local doctor’s house. Best of all, there was also a few more days off school.
At breakfast that morning, the Daily Express headline had said “All this - and Everest too”. Because, 3 days earlier (it took 3 days for the news to get back to the UK), Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to climb the world’s highest mountain.
Curiosity drove this 10 year old boy to read the same news in several papers. He was a very proficient tree climber himself, so climbing mountains seemed somehow related. Most of these reports mentioned that no sign had been found of George Mallory realising that in this context “lost” meant was a successful Liverpool businessman. and Andrew Irvine, a pair of British climbers they had died. I thought this meant that they She had been 14 when Mallory and Irvine who had disappeared very near to the top of had merely lost their way. Further questions were lost, and not only was it regarded as a Everest 29 years earlier. indicated my father knew no more. But much national disaster, it was an even bigger local to his and my surprise, my mother knew lots disaster because both climbers were from That 10 year old was me, and the local more. the North West. Mallory was a vicar’s son, doctor was my father. I asked him who born in Mobberley in Cheshire, but when he were Mallory and Irvine. “Oh, two British She had grown up in the then fairly smart, died on Everest, his father was now based climbers who were lost on Everest many middle class, professional suburb of in Birkenhead. Irvine, however, had actually years ago” he said. “Lost?” said I, not yet Birkenhead called Prenton and her father lived and grown up in Birkenhead’s Prenton 40•DHOJournal•2012
area just like my mother. And Irvine‘s prove valuable on the mountain when fixing Antony Knebworth and John Carleton, father too, was a successful Liverpool the unreliable oxygen apparatus or mending who were all Oxford University ski racers. businessman. Both fathers would journey to cameras and camp beds! Odell suggested Whilst we do not know whether Sandy the Birkenhead Pier head each day and take Sandy should get some “Snow Experience” had previously met or knew Chris (or vice the ferry across to Liverpool (it would be and thus he introduced him to his friend versa), both were “Oxford Blues”, Sandy another 10 years before the Mersey Tunnel Arnold Lunn , who was building his power for Rowing and Chris for both Athletics and opened to offer an alternative way across the base in Mürren as the world leader in Rugby, there is little doubt that even if they river). It is highly probable the two fathers developing alpine skiing and racing. had not met (they were, after all, at different were acquainted with each other. Irvine was Oxford Colleges), they must certainly have an undergraduate at Merton College Oxford He was shortly to launch the Kandahar Ski been aware of each other’s prowess in their and was only 22 years old when he died. Club, he was an avid ski mountaineer and chosen sporting fields. had many years earlier been an excellent Irvine was already a bit of local hero because pure mountaineer before a fall on Cader Idris The 4 of them came across from Mürren to he had been in the winning Oxford boat race in North Wales in 1908 so badly broke his Wengen and up to Scheidegg on the way to crew the previous year and like any other right leg that it never fully recovered and Jungfraujoch, they joined CJ White and ski 14 year old girl from his home town, my was thereafter 1.5 inches shorter than his guide Fritz Fuchs. In a letter to his father, mother felt his tragic death very personally. left leg. He would be surrounded by his Antony Knebworth recounts how the racers After the event, she had read everything ski-racing friends for Christmas and New were not greatly impressed with their first available about Mallory and Irvine and Year and most of January. Irvine joined the exposure to glacier touring, they disliked devoured all the reports of the memorial Lunn party, sitting at table with Arnold and having to slavishly follow the guide’s tracks services in Liverpool and London, plus the family that included Peter Lunn, then aged 9. and were uncertain and nervous about the various stories and theories about their increased likelihood or danger of falling disappearance that had been published in the Undoubtedly Sandy took to skiing like a into a crevasse if they strayed off-course. national and local newspapers. Years later in duck to water. So it was not altogether The speed of their progress was rather too 1999, when Mallory’s body was eventually surprising that, as a fellow Oxford pedestrian for their taste. He also recounted found on Everest, a rash of books appeared undergraduate with a significant sporting how they all got completely legless in the and she even read one or two of these some reputation, albeit still a bit of a skiing novice, bar at the little Edelweiss hotel in Blatten for 75 years after the two men were lost. So it he should talk with and befriend other 2 Swiss Francs drinking Vin du Pays and a should come as no surprise that, to me too, Oxford undergraduates ski racing at Mürren. home distilled schnapps called Enzian, made Irvine was a bit of a hero and that when his As part of Sandy’s trip to Mürren, towards from the roots of Gentians. They then tried biography was written by his great niece the end of his visit, an expedition was to ski down to Goppenstein, with the utmost Julie Summers and published in the year planned onto the glaciers from Jungfraujoch. difficulty and very frequent rather drunken 2000, I should buy myself a copy. This trip was organised by CJ White, almost falls. certainly in response to a direct request from Arnold Lunn. CJ White was to become the first president of the DHO on its formation The 13 months later. The
Undergraduate CJ (as he was universally known) was one Cardboard Box of the pre-eminent tourers of the day and In September 2011 I was delving into a Oarsman was Wengen based, as was local guide, Fritz recently discovered cardboard box Whilst up at Oxford University, Sandy Fuchs. The plan was to ski down the Aletsch containing early records of the DHO. Irvine was in the University eight that lost glacier, climb on skis up to the Hollandia to Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1922, Hut, where they were to stay the night, and The contents included a complete set of but they won in 1923. Sandy had joined the following day they were scheduled to DHO journals, both an early DHO minute a Merton College expedition to the Isle of climb Ebnefluh to give Sandy his “Snow book and a later one (but still pre-war). Spitzbergen in 1923, led by geologist and Experience”, thence to the saddle at Also it contained a photo album dating explorer Noel Odell. He had enjoyed the Lötschenlücke and down the other side to the from about 1920 onwards. The minute book challenge and had impressed Odell. isolated village of Blatten. turned out to be the very first minute book of the DHO and included the handwritten Odell was invited to join the 1924 Everest Due to bad weather the Ebnefluh climb was records of the founding of the club on 7th expedition and he encouraged Sandy to abandoned and they stayed a few extra hours February 1925. It even contains one of the apply to do likewise. Sandy was eventually asleep in their beds in the Hollandia hut. original hand drawn DHO badges used on invited to join on the basis that he might This expedition, whilst primarily organised that first race day on 6th February, the day become their “secret weapon”. He was for Sandy Irvine to increase his snow before the club was officially formed. young, fit, immensely strong and had an experience, was also joined by ski racing excellent mechanical aptitude which would exponents from Mürren, Chris Mackintosh, DHOJournal•2012•41
In the photo album are annotated photos of virtually every person who was important A in the founding and development of the DHO, from CJ White (our first President), B Ken Foster (the first vice President and first editor, later president too), SF Fisken (who had earlier coined two notable phrases, that he indulged in “railway mountaineering” and skied “Downhill Only” and thus he should be credited with inventing, perhaps unwittingly, our club’s name).
Near the front of the album is a photograph of a group of 6 skiers; 5 are identified, one is not, in that lovely old fashioned white ink often used in old photo albums. The names are John Carleton, Viscount Knebworth, blank, Chris Mackintosh, CJ White, Fritz Fuchs. The photo was captioned “The A: Mallory and Irvine last seen in this area of the ridge. B: The Couloir Route Expedition”.
Because I knew the story outlined earlier and knew the composition of the trip involving Irvine, I immediately wondered whether this could be that expedition from Jungfraujoch to Blatten? Almost willing myself to decide that whatever he looked like, this unidentified skier just had to be Sandy Irvine, I looked carefully. What I saw was a large and very athletic looking man who made Chris Mackintosh look surprisingly normal in size. And yes, the unmistakable face of Sandy Irvine.
History has not overburdened us with too many photos of Sandy Irvine before the Everest expedition. Whilst Sandy was known because of his boat race success, Left to right; Fritz Fuchs, Sandy Irvine, Chris Mackintosh, C J White. he only became world famous as “….and Irvine” when connected to Mallory after they either the north east ridge or the couloir. had both died. Mallory was strongly Did they achieve Mallory was known to favour the ridge associated with Everest in the public eye route (and it was on that ridge where they even before going on his 3rd and final the summit of were last seen), Norton and Somervell who expedition. So to find a previously unknown had failed a few days earlier, had tried the 88 year old photograph of Irvine before he Everest? Couloir route. went to Everest is quite exciting. The 1924 Everest expedition has been much discussed by climbers, authors and When the Chinese annexed Tibet after the Let us finish with a few words from his researchers over the last 88 years. The war, access to Everest via this side was biographer (and great niece) Julie Summers central theme is always “Did they summit denied to western countries, so expeditions to whom I conveyed the news of the or not before they died?” thereafter all attempted from the west side of photograph’s discovery. “How incredibly Everest through Nepal. Only the Chinese and exciting and what a find. I’d be absolutely Many would prefer not to know. Mallory’s their allies approached from the north. delighted to see any photograph of Sandy body was found in 1999, but Sandy Irvine’s As the previously difficult relations have from this collection……….. I’m really has not yet been discovered. Or, at least, not eased and access to the northern side re- thrilled”. recorded as “found”. All attempts before opened to expeditions from the western 1939 were undertaken through Tibet so the world, it has become clear that in the natural route was up the north col and thence meantime Chinese climbers had seen two 42•DHOJournal•2012
bodies on the NE upper slopes of Everest and there were only two candidates as to who these might be. They were both much too high to be regarded as recoverable, so were left where they were. One was seen at a height that more or less coincides with the location of Mallory’s body when found in 1999, the other was reportedly seen several hundred feet higher up the mountain, very close to the ridge itself. Mallory and Irvine were known to have the expedition’s Kodak Vest Pocket camera with them as well as almost certainly Sandy Irvine’s own camera. Yet no camera was found on or near to George Mallory.
So, one or both cameras were more likely to be with Sandy Irvine. If they had summited Above; Irvine’s camera can be seen around his neck. Is it possible that images from this may have survived to this day, assuming he took it on his final climb? in daylight, or established a new “high point” before turning back, it is reasonable to assume they would have recorded their The two photographs taken at Jungfraujoch When Irvine’s body is eventually found, will success on film, thus the continued show Sandy Irvine, one posed in a line of it have one or two cameras thereon, and will fascination as to the exact whereabouts of 6 skiers, and next moving off over the knife either of them contain undeveloped film that Sandy’s body. At that height the mountain is edge carrying his skis, following Fritz Fuchs proves that they either did or didn’t reach the permanently in “deepfreeze” and therefore onto the Aletsch glacier. And around his summit? Perhaps I can express a personal there is a very reasonable chance that images neck is his camera, proving, if such proof view that I know coincides with that of Julie may be still on the film that would be is needed, that his camera went with him Summers, Irvine’s biographer. I would much capable of being developed. Eastman Kodak everywhere. And he had clearly used it at prefer not to know. To me part of the has stated that it believes this film will still Jungfraujoch since in the earlier photo it fascination of this 88 year old story is not be capable of producing valid negatives even is not visible and is presumably inside his knowing the actual outcome, but being able after 88 years in “deepfreeze”. jacket. to hope that, perhaps, just perhaps, they made it.
At Jungfraujoch on the 1924 expedition: John Carleton, Viscount Antony Knebworth, Sandy Irvine, Chris Mackintosh, C J White and Fritz Fuchs DHOJournal•2012•43
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Skiing the ‘Pacific ring of Fire’ the lakes & volcanoes of Chile & Argentina
Volcanic Skiing Phil Smith
If someone had said to me I would be Here we were traveling half way around the If you think one volcano is the same as standing on the top of a live Volcano world to ski in resorts with only one or two another, think again. Every one is different. looking down into the centre of the earth ski lifts! You have to be joking I thought. Different shapes, scenery, summits and dif- with bubbling lava one minute and then Nervous was an understatement. I had ferent history. Lonquimay, our second desti- skiing off piste in perfect snow the next persuaded some of my guests to take three nation, last erupted around the early 90’s and I would have thought they were crazy. weeks off work and part with a fare chunk of left a new massive crater half way up Yet here I was doing exactly that. Chile their income to ski in a resort with two lifts! the original volcano. Our first visit to is a country of startling contrasts, which My worries were totally unfounded, this was Lonquimay was six years ago and I have on average is over 2,700 miles long, the a totally different type of ski experience. since fallen in love with the place. Jose, the equivalent distance from Edinburgh to The scenery spectacular, the hospitality local volcano specialist and governor of the Baghdad and never more then 150 miles overwhelming, the skiing totally different local school is always on hand to welcome wide with some of the most active and the opportunity to ski from the top of us. volcanoes in the world. live volcanoes! We stay in a lodge at the base of the volcano I first started my adventures in Chile ten Every year we have added to and amended surrounded by araucarias trees and years ago when I was lucky to meet a good the itinerary and shaped it into the ultimate I am not exaggerating when I say we have friend Cristian Levy. Cristian runs his own Chilean skiing experience designed for the place to ourselves. So I was worried Chilean tourism agency based in Temuco in skiers from limited or no off piste experience about only having two ski lifts! Lonquimay the centre of the Lakes and Volcano district. to off piste experts. But each year as I only has one main lift! But when you’re I was familiar with Valle Nevado and traveled around the lure of the volcanoes faced with untracked powder, no other skiers Portillo, the main Chilean ski destinations was overwhelming. I had always managed and a chairlift to yourself! Need I say more? but Cristian persuaded me there is a totally to get to the top of one or two within our The climb to the summit is pretty tough for different side to skiing in Chile. Corralco, itinerary but volcano skiing is addictive and those with no experience but for hardened Araucarias, Pucon, Huilo-Huilo, Antillanca I wanted more! So I sat down with Cristian ski tourers 4 hours will get you to the top and Osorno are ski areas very few skiers and Guido, our local Guide, and drew up the and onto the massive crater. The ski down have ever heard of, so when I took my first ultimate volcano itinerary. Climb and ski off is always exceptional snow as it’s south group there 10 years ago needless to say the top of 7 Volcanoes in 12 days! facing. Don’t forget we’re in the southern I was pretty apprehensive. We’re used to hemisphere so it’s the other way around. The 3 Valleys and the Espace Killy with So here were ‘The 7 Volcanoes’. Antuco, There are numerous ways down but the best hundreds of ski lifts stretching in every Lonquimay, Villarrica, Mocho, Choshuenco, is straight down the south face. direction. Casablanca and Osorno. 46•DHOJournal•2012
On Top Of Volcano Lonquimay
Next to Villarrica. This is one of the most 4 ski lifts so this is big and crowded! I must to ourselves. The skin up took 4 hours but famous volcanoes in Chile and last erupted have counted at least 20 other skiers! This this was different to the others as 300 metres around 2000. We have managed to get most was a totally different experience and again from the summit the slope angle changes of our clients to the top of this, even non-ski the drive up, the scenery and the skiing from 30 to 50 degrees. The last section has tourers. With the skis strapped to your spectacular. The hike to the top of the to be negotiated with crampons and ice axes. backpack you can get to the top between volcano takes between 3 to 4 hours and even The ski down was spectacular and as we 3 to 5 hours. The scenery from the top is for non-hardened ski tourers is easy. The arrived at the bottom for some hard earned spectacular and as the crater is open so you skiing down is awesome and again just pick cerveza’s you could not help thinking that can literally see the lava spitting out. You your route and enjoy. skiing would never be the same again. The cannot fail to be mesmerized with molten land of volcanoes had us hooked. lava on one side and perfect snow on the Last of the 7 volcanoes and one of the most other! There are numerous routes down and spectacular, Osorno. Driving along the valley Phil Smith owns and runs Snoworks Ski if you get the timing just right you can be Osorno looms high and ominous and there is Courses. www.snoworks.co.uk Tel: 0844 skiing down in the sunset. no escaping its glare! Guido was right when 5453405003. Trips to Chile & Argentina take he said he left the best to last. We arrived at place in August and September. See website Onto the national park of Huilo-Huilo and the base early and again we had the ski resort for dates/details & prices. volcanoes Mocho and Choshuenco. Up to this point you could easily be forgiven if you have thought it cannot get any better. But Huilo-Huilo is the most amazing place I have ever been to. Again we have the mountain to ourselves, private trucks to take us through the national park to the base of the volcano and our own snow cat to get us as high as possible. Huilo-Huilo has no ski lifts! Yep you heard right, no lifts. But who needs lifts when you have your own private snow cat. From where the snow cat drops us it’s only a short one hour hike to the top of each volcano and from there the whole area to yourself.
Drop down south and onto our last two volcanoes. Casablanca is a ski resort with DHOJournal•2012•47
Ski Touring Report 2012 Kit Erhardt
The first four days of the tour were based We split into 3 groups: Val d’Anniviers in the high and pretty Val d’Anniviers Group 1 high climbers guided by Peter. containing the old resorts of St Luc, and Crans – Grimentz and Zinal. We stayed in Zinal at Group 2 René’s gentlemen who recovered in the Hotel Le Besso where the rooms were spite of a mix-up of each other’s skis after Montana small but comfortable, the food was good lunch. A party of sixteen members joined our and the atmosphere friendly. guides on March 17th for 4 days touring Group 3 the ladies guided by Adolf in Val d’Anniviers and then 2 days We skied mainly in Zinal, in two bowls with across the Rhône valley based in the hardish crud at the top and wet spring snow Wildstrubelhütte above Crans – Montana. Sunday conditions lower down. Lunch in the Sorbois restaurant. Afterwards a steep couloir The tour group was larger than in recent 18th March descent in crud / spring snow and a final years. Adolf Schlunegger was again the The weather was sunny with high cloud for descent to Grimentz. mainstay in putting the tour together as most of the day. Later visibility deteriorated he has done for 26 years. Peter Sollberger and snow fall started. guided the higher climbers and both were assisted by René Seiler who may have carried some of the members when it was tough. The tour members were Ian and Jane McCormick, Ali Hollington, Clive Mitchell, Ian Murray, Ian Carmichael, John Rigby, John Wright, Kit and Simon Erhardt, Luis Cumberlege, Pippa Duncan, Roger and Helen Marsh, Simon Hollington and Trisha Dale. It was also a pleasure to see Paddy Hollington, matriarch of the Hollingtons and also of the DHO spring tour, at several of our morning starts. I was persuaded to report the tour based on the established criteria of being a newly joined member and probably the first person on the tour to fall. 48•DHOJournal•2012
Monday Tuesday Wednesday 19th March 20th March 21st March The snow continued overnight and much A beautiful day with the fresh snow. The morning comprised a walk/climb from of the day giving about 25 cms. As planned We went by car to Grimentz, up in the lifts to Zinal towards L’Ar Pitetta. It was another we travelled by car to St. Luc, but Adolf Becs de Bosson and split ourselves to form beautiful day and our aim was to enjoy the abandoned the scheduled climb in favour of Adolf’s tourers and Peter’s high climbers. walk and the superb mountain scenery of a memorable day of resort skiing in fresh The tourers did a half-hour climb, a ski on the upper Val d’Anniviers. Because of time snow, some of it between the trees. The good snow followed by an hour climb to constraint we turned back before reaching Hollingtons are local residents in Grimentz Col de Lona (2780m) for packed lunch. our goal and skied back to Zinal for lunch. and Pippa joined René’s group of gentlemen The descent down to Lac de Moiry and its In the afternoon we transferred to Crans to provide invaluable knowledge of the impressive dam became progressively more Montana by car followed by two long cable pistes in the poor visibility. We were all challenging with crusty snow, avalanche car lifts to the Plaine Morte glacier. After again impressed with our guides’ abilities to debris and finally a narrow path through the admiring the view over the Rhône Valley we find the way through the trees and to lifts in trees. Peter’s group made the first tracks did a short descent and then a climb to the areas where they had never skied. During the down Col de Louche into Val de Réchy, and Weisshorn summit (2948m) and a further day there was a “human slalom”. Most of then climbed to Cabane des Becs de Bosson short descent in challenging crusty crud to the “poles” were of significant age and they for a brief recovery and drink break (no time the Wildstrubelhütte (2793m). Unlike most were not bendy poles. It was good fun but for lunch). Afterwards they skied beside Lac of our team I had not previously stayed in a we do not recommend it to the club to defray de Lona to reach the tracks left by Adolf’s mountain hut. Both the dormitories and the the cost of slalom poles. group up to Col de Lona and extended the wash rooms were for both genders. There climb to ski the next untracked bowl. The was a lot of tooth brushing but my washing way back to Grimentz was similar for both in the cold water was very limited! A pair groups and we met for drinks in the Crystal of light trousers or leggings is useful: my bar. jeans would not go in my pack so I stayed in salopettes. DHOJournal•2012•49
A torch is useful if you get up at night they could not get back to the hut. However, I think all team members enjoyed the tour although this hut had mains electricity which after consulting a local ski instructor they and on behalf of them I thank Adolf, René is unusual. The food was simple but took alternative lifts to complete a typical and Peter for their guiding and Ian for his substantial and sustaining and served in a DHO touring day including variable (light touch!) organisation work. convivial dining area. Also staying the first conditions and a modicum of adversity. night were a couple of beautiful German shepherd dogs which slept in the boot room and were quite at home on the snow. A fox Friday was eating scraps on the metal verandah in the morning. 23rd March After thanking the wardens Margreth and Heinz we posed outside the hut for team Thursday photographs and left at 8 am. Peter’s group climbed Pointe de Plaine Morte did a short 22nd March descent in crud and then climbed Mont The third sunny day. As usual when Bonvin (2900m). They were rewarded with staying in huts, breakfast was early at 6am a memorable descent, the first part in powder and departure at 7.10am. Both groups and then spring snow ending up down a climbed from the hut to the Plaine Morte woodland path to Aminona. Adolf’s group glacier but then split to cross the glacier in (now augmented by some defections from slightly different directions. Adolf’s group the faster team!) took advantage of a brief climbed Les Faverges (2971m) for a button lift ascent to near the top of the Plaine wonderful view of the Rhône valley. Morte ski terrain, then headed off piste for They then had a shortish descent back to a similar descent through powder, spring glacier level which they re-crossed in the snow and woodland tracks on the eastern other direction before climbing the side of the resort. A feature of touring which Weisshorn again and descending to the hut. impressed me and benefited my skiing was Peter’s group climbed Schneehorn (3177 m) the necessity to ski several types of snow, then skied in the Outannes to Aminona. At often on the same descent, and being unable the top they had breaking crust, but then a to avoid the difficult bits. Both groups met kilometre of spring snow turning to slush at up for drinks at Mayen de la Cure restaurant the bottom. The Violettes cable car had before returning by shuttle bus to Montana recently broken and they were initially told and departure. Ski equipment over the years Ingie Christophersen DHOJournal•2012•51
In 1895 the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen made his second journey towards the North Pole on skis made of maple, birch and hickory
Ski equipment over the years Ingie Christophersen
When I was a little girl growing up in very generous and a very memorable day in There were initially no equipment rules Norway and skied to school every day my my childhood was being taken to the shop in Alpine ski racing – the top ski racers skis were made of a laminate of maple, of the brothers Ruud (pronounced Rude) influenced the manufacturers, rather than birch and hickory. I caught the trikk – the and bought a pair of red Clipper skis with the other way round. I think I am right to say little electric tram – back up the mountain Marker safety bindings- I was way ahead of that stoppers became the first compulsory at the end of the day. The skis were long, my compatriots. (The Ruud brothers were equipment – if a ski could be parted from the very long, and had Kandahar bindings world famous ski-jumpers. Birger Ruud was skier it was vital to prevent it from shoot- – these could be adjusted from a downhill a pre-war triple Olympic gold medallist and ing down the hill out of control. In 1959 skiing position to a walking position. The literally soared above the rest. In the 1936 there was a fatal accident during an Alpine cable round the heel would be channelled Olympics he won the ski jumping and downhill competition and FIS decreed that through a catch on either side of the ski downhill gold medal – a Nordic and an helmets were obligatory for downhill. I thereby tightening the binding. In walking Alpine event during the same Olympics, called them sausage helmets- foam sausages mode the cable was unhooked thus freeing never repeated since. I have always been covered in leather. They would of course the heel from the ski. Metal edges were told that the downhill course swept round protect the head from bruises and scratches screwed on in sections; a stone might rip a large rock or outcrop and Birger jumped but would be useless if a head and a rock a section off – sometimes stripping off the the rock, thus cutting out a large section of made contact at speed. A far cry from today’s entire metal edge and with it part of the the course, but nevertheless completed the kite-marked reinforced plastic helmets. ski. course legally as he passed through all the gates! Clever! ) At the same time my father We now ski on exaggerated side-cut skis – it Boots were made of leather; the poles were bought himself a pair of Head skis – they is possible to turn cleanly at great speed and of bamboo with rather large baskets. I wore were in those days the Rolls-Royce of skis equally as possible to rip the knee cap clean red stockings and plus- fours – we used to and cost the staggering sum of NOK 1000 out of the socket. The pendulum swings call them apple plus-fours because you could or £80. back and forth – from an absolute minimum stuff a pound of apples into them, around length of 165 cm and starting this season, the knee area. In Norwegian eple knickers. I have lived through laminated skis, all FIS rules now decree longer skis with less Height of fashion. wood, then plastic base, skis in the form of side-cut thus reducing the radius the ski can a sandwich of aluminium and wood, metal, describe on the snow. Not so spectacular but Then the new-fangled plastic skis arrived fibreglass, and foam core; leather boots, a lot safer, or rather, less damaging to knees and with them primitive safety binding. buckle leather boots, then plastic boots; and tendons. My father was not only quite ambitious bindings that were just that – binding, release regarding my skiing – I had become Oslo bindings; stoppers. Ski racing is a controlled competition – very champion at the age of 14 – but he was also different to the affairs I entered every-week 52•DHOJournal•2012
end in Oslo. Our gate-poles were mostly cut Every racer earns race points, international For slalom, the average time is about 10% from the nearby wood and painted red, blue FIS points or British BASS points. These behind the winner - so F = 60/10% = 600 or yellow. There were no real guidelines or points indicate his or her performance in Presumably, the need to negotiate poles and standards regarding how to set a course, relation to the winner; the closer to the deep ruts influence this. distance between two gates of the same winner in time, the lower the points. colour or succeeding gates. You might enter For many years, the combined result a tight vertical from a fast schuss, or turn Added to these race points is the so-called (downhill & slalom) was based on the sum your skis uphill and execute a few herring- penalty. Penalty points are worked out by a of the race points from each race. Without bone steps to pass round the next gate. formula which takes the standard of the race differential F values, a good slalom, but Timing was a hit and miss affair, a couple into account; i.e. who raced, and how good mediocre downhill skier has an advantage of stop-watches and line of sight control, the top 10 finishers were (or, in other words, over a good downhill, but mediocre slalom a whistle in case of fog! Compare that to how good were their points). The better, or skier. The differential F values are set to today’s compulsory electronic time-keeping lower, the seed points of the winner, the give the racer with the average time in each equipment to 1/1000th of a second, backed better, or lower the race Penalty Points. discipline 60 race points for each race. up by a second system and sophisticated hand timing in the last instance if it all fails. The race points added to the penalty points Unfortunately, using the race point There are rules for vertical drop, distance make up the seed points. The lower the seed calculation meant that it was not possible between gates, number of gates, gate panels, points, the better the start number. to know the winner of the combined until and the pole itself must comply with strict everyone had completed the second race and specifications such as minimum and Then we have what I call the Fiddle factor, the race points had been calculated. Not very maximum diameter. All competition courses or the F factor. Don’t continue reading if this friendly to the TV commentator trying to are homologated, i.e. inspected and passed does not interest you! And now I quote Peter report live to the world. by a FIS inspector, and speed courses must Heath who is the British National Seeder. be re-homologated every 10 years, just in The combined result is now calculated on the case new buildings or trees have appeared The values for each discipline are reviewed aggregate time from both disciplines - along the course constituting a danger to the every two years following an analysis of all effectively removing the influence of the racer. FIS results within the last two years. F value. It seems that an instant result is now more important than equating the different Then we have the complicated seed points For each Giant Slalom race, they calculate disciplines. – in my day non-existent and every name the average time behind the winner for all was drawn out of a hat every race, no top 30 finishers as a percentage of the winner’s Easy Peasy when you understand it!! followed by FIS points order. Seed points time, then average the percentages over all Parents, and all DHO members, there is govern a racer’s starting position and as we the GS races within the two year period. wonderful information to be had from the all know, the lower the bib number the better Finally, they set the F value so that this FIS website www.fis-ski.com Go and have the condition of the course. The object of the average time produces 60 race points. a look and start speaking with real authority exercise is to have as few points as possible! to anyone who will bother to listen! Seed points on the BASS (British Alpine For downhill, the average time is about 4.5% Seeding System) list are calculated from the behind the winner - so F = 60/4.5% = 1333 average of a skier’s two best results of the season. DHOJournal•2012•53
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Janey King is a DHO member of nearly 20 years standing. Rather better known by her pseudonym of Rosie Thomas, she is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the bestsellers Sun at Midnight, Iris and Ruby and Constance and most recently, the Kashmir Shawl. Once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia.
The Shackelton Traverse South Georgia, October 2011, Janey King
Ten people decked in full ski-mountain- trapped in the pack ice, drifted helplessly in sixteen days, and were finally driven ashore eering gear complete with loaded sledges its grinding jaws through three long polar in heavy weather on to the south-west coast is not a common sight on any beach, seasons, and finally broke up and sank. of South Georgia. But only the island’s although the elephant seals languishing north-east coast was inhabited. In a last bid in the sand barely lifted their heads as we Taking with them their beloved sledge dogs, to save his men Shackleton had to make one trudged by. The five-day yacht passage the three lifeboats and whatever else they more decision. He would have to lead the that brought us to this remote bay isn’t could salvage including the carpenter’s cat, climb over unmapped, icebound mountains quite the usual start to a ski tour either the men camped out on the floes and drifted to reach the whaling station on the other side - but then this was something more than steadily onwards towards the edge of the of the island. He chose Worsley and Crean to a weekend in the Alps. pack. By April 1916 the ice was breaking up accompany him, and leaving the other three beneath them and they were in grave danger men behind they set off from where we stood We were on the island of South Georgia, and from cruising killer whales as well as the on the beach at Peggotty Bluff in King our objective was to follow in the footsteps constant storms. They took to the lifeboats Haakon Bay. Exactly the same view of Sir Ernest Shackleton and two of his men and sailed sixty miles to the nearest land confronted us – rock, ice, unmarked snow, who made the first traverse of the island in – but not to safety. Remote Elephant Island and a distant col now known as Shackleton May 1916, crossing the hostile peaks and was unvisited even by whalers, and there Gap. glaciers of the unmapped interior to bring was no hope of discovery and rescue from rescue to their stranded companions. such an isolated spot. Our party of eight was made up of a group Shackleton’s ship the Endurance left England of seven friends who had pre-planned this in August 1914. Amundsen with Scott Shackleton took the decision to sail one of adventure in great detail. Sailors as well pressing hard behind him had already the three lifeboats to the nearest inhabited as expert skiers, five of them doctors who reached the Pole, and Scott’s party had point and fetch help for his stranded crew. trained together, they hospitably recruited perished on the terrible return journey. He chose five men to accompany him, me – a writer, Wengen skier and occasional Shackleton therefore persuaded his sponsors including the Endurance’s skipper Frank mountaineer – to join them. Training outings that the last remaining great polar challenge Worsley and Tom Crean, the second officer. to north Wales and Chamonix had been not was the trans-Antarctic crossing – an 1800- On April 24th they set out in the 22-foot without their own excitements, and the high- mile march across the ice. The expedition lifeboat James Caird to sail through seas drama of the Southern Ocean passage was adequately planned and equipped, but mountainous seas to South Georgia, a speck from Falkland to South Georgia had welded the Antarctic weather was against the of land almost 800 miles distant. us into a proper team. We sailed out of Endurance crew from the very beginning. Stanley on Skip Novak’s Pelagic Australis, In the polar summer of 1914-15 there were The perils of this journey were infinite. Yet a fantastic 74-foot metal-hulled high 53 degrees of frost. Their ship became they made it after an agonising voyage of latitudes charter yacht designed to support 56•DHOJournal•2012
expeditions like ours (sailors can read all the details on www.pelagic.co.uk). As Skip said, ‘if you’re not doing the washing up it’s a cruise. If you are, it’s an expedition’. We washed up. He was also accompanying us on the traverse and we were led by the mountaineer Stephen Venables, the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen.
It had been a long journey, but we were finally ready for the off. In three separate ropes for glacier travel we clipped the sledges (pulks) to our harnesses via traces and stepped into our touring skis. My heart was banging like a drum, but the steady and familiar rhythm of uphill skinning soon settled my nerves. The loaded pulk swished through the snow more easily than I had expected. As we climbed steadily towards the col I thought of Shackleton, Worsley and Crean. We had our parkas and Gore-tex, our GPS and satphone and avalanche bleeps, ropes and shovels and polar tents, our self-rescue gear merrily clinking on our harnesses, and enough food for a siege. They had – what? After weeks in an open boat they had little more than rags to wear, boots with a few screws taken from the lifeboat planking, and some pitiful scraps of food.
Pelagic dwindled to a dot in the steel-blue bay. The skipper and mate would bring her round to meet us at Stromness, the old whaling station on the other side – how many days hence?
Shackleton and co. did this journey in thirty- the wrong way. The other ropes were already The second time it happened I very nearly six hours. moving off into the white murk. My harness laid my head on the ice to weep. But luckily was twisted, the rope was round my leg, – and no doubt accurately – I judged that From the top of the Gap we headed everything was in a nightmare tangle. this wasn’t the moment for waterworks. eastwards across the open space of the Skip was nose into the wind like a gun dog. We trudged on, and after a stiff ascent in Murray Snowfield. I felt pretty chipper, I lurched in his wake. The pulk fishtailed the howling wind at last reached our first swinging along in the middle of our rope exhaustingly on knotted traces. I struggled overnight camp in a snow scoop under the with Skip setting a manageable pace and on, against a desperate crosswind. The snow forbidding Trident Ridge. Christopher moving easily at the rear. This was scoured to pearly ice, nasty and was going to be easy, I decided. Ha ha. featureless. My skins kept slipping sideways There was no chance to sag or even catch our instead of gliding forwards, but Skip pulled breath. It was still blowing a massive hooley. We stopped for lunch in rising wind. Thin ahead so I was tugged in two directions. We went straight into digging out and grey cloud had already shawled the sky By now the wind was blasting in huge snowy flattening three tent platforms. Following and without sunlight the scenery became gusts. My face stung. Suddenly a massive bellowed but barely audible instructions hostile. I made the hideous mistake of briefly gust came (‘Fifty plus’, the men said later) from our leaders we fought to put up three lowering my harness and trousers without and lifted me right off my feet. I was dumped tents with double poles for security in the bothering to unfasten the pulk traces, or my on my side in a cats’ cradle of rope. It’s hard maddeningly flimsy net sleeves. The domes rucksack straps, or the prusik knot securing to get upright with crossed skis and a bucked and leapt to escape from our numbed the pulk to the rope. I pulled my stuff cumbersome rucksack, let alone from under fists and the flysheets twisted like dragons’ together too hastily afterwards and stepped a red plastic sledge on an incline of sheet ice. wings. DHOJournal•2012•57
We dug out blocks of snow to weight the miracle he was only bruised and grazed, but station’s whistle, and knew that he was in valances. We secured guy ropes with ice axes this was the worst moment. By the time we striking distance of human habitation. I was or snow stakes or skis dug into the snow. were all down and had gulped some food in my hero’s exact footprints. In almost 100 We dug deep foot-pits in the porch areas it was 3pm, and there were still 12 km to years few people have stepped in that place, front and back. We dragged off our ski boots, cover to our planned overnight camp. I don’t and it was a moment to reflect on his courage crawled out of the wind at last and think I was the only one who felt beat, and and strength. contemplated the dry-bags we had each relieved when Stephen called a stop for the hauled in off the pulks, containing our night. There was a good deal of anxiety We skied onwards over spring snow in sleeping gear, dry socks, a mug and spoon. about our seriously exposed position in the wonderful sunshine, descending all the time A foam mat apiece, a thin thermarest middle of the glacier. The nightly satphone until we reached a steep and narrowing gully mattress on top of that, and a sleeping bag. schedule with the boat informed us that through which a river funneled towards the In our tent, Christopher and I collapsed colossal gales were forecast. But there was sea. It was hard going on touring skis, let on our sketchy beds as if felled by a blow. nothing else for it. alone towing an unwieldy pulk. At last we The process of putting up camp had taken gained the beach at Fortuna Bay, and camped two hours, and it was getting dark. Skip sat In the event the winds were not too bad. We for the night amongst the seals and penguins. with his feet in the kitchen pit and fired up a even had a lie-in – until a luxurious 6 a.m. gas burner balanced on a sheet of plywood We skinned across the remaining expanse of We spent the next day and the following board. Hot tea came, followed by tomato and the Crean, made a gentle climb to the night tent-bound, trapped by gales and onion pasta and a nightcap of hot chocolate division from the Fortuna Glacier, then skied torrential rain. Christopher, Skip and I lay in with a nip of Christopher’s whisky. Seconds in glorious sunshine down to our next camp our sleeping bags reading, dozing, listening later I was asleep. in another snow scoop sheltered beneath to iPods, eking out our food, and talking. It rocks below Breakwind Ridge – our posi- felt very companionable and safe, with the Next morning following a 4 a.m. wake-up tion, as I noted in my scribbled diary, 37 deg wind outside battering the nylon walls and it took two and a half hours to strike camp 52 min W, 54 deg 10 min S. the low hiss of the gas burner inside as we and get ready to move. After the short climb brewed more tea. to the ridge itself, we were faced with the The next morning, our fourth, we reached the task of lowering ten heavy pulks down three top of Breakwind Ridge via a short climb up (Q. How did you go? climbing ropes tied together to make a 180m the headwall using crampons and ice axes, A. We used pee bottles inside the tents length – down not one but three separate to the narrow rock ridge itself, then lowered rather than trying to pull on ski boots and stages, making a total drop-off of well over the pulks down to the Fortuna Glacier. From totter out into the howling storm. I added the 500m down to the Crean Glacier. This here we had a view to our left of the blue refinement of knotting an anorak around my massive task took seven hours. Stephen, slice of Fortuna Bay, and in the distance waist to form a curtain. Solid operations did Skip and Tom (another Everest veteran) bore another bluff with a distinctive Z-shaped require a dash outside, to the pit and shovel. the brunt of the technical rope work, but we band of pale rock. Shackleton knew that this That’s all on that topic). all worked flat out wherever we could. One stood above Stromness Harbour. It was from of us missed his footing at the top of the this spot at 7 a.m. on a May morning in 1916 On the sixth day we completed the last, ridge and slid the whole way down. By some that he heard the distant toot of the whaling easier, segment of the journey known as the 58•DHOJournal•2012
Shackleton Walk. We skinned up from but put together it was the toughest physical encouragement, the almost constant jokes, Fortuna Bay, crossed over some rounded challenge I’ve ever experienced – but also and the unfailing good humour. cols, and made a ski descent on heavy snow more exciting, more satisfying and more to the last couple of miles of walking over complete than any other ski mountaineering At one point one of the others noticed I was boggy tussock grass to the shore of excursion. The history is so vivid, so all struggling on foot down the gully, silently Stromness Bay and the ruined whaling around you. The scenery is staggeringly took my skis from me and tied them to his station. Here the unrecognisable scarecrows wild. And the savage weather means that you pulk alongside his own. He was already of the Endurance men stumbled up to the are continually rocking on the sharp edge hauling twice my load. It was a very Polar manager’s house, and one of them said ‘My of potential disaster – without any prospect Hero act. We might almost have gone so far name is Shackleton’. Today we saw Pelagic, of external rescue. Unlike in the Alps, or as to shake hands. Wordlessly, of course. riding the waves in the bay – the most even the Himalayas, the cavalry is not going welcome sight in the world. When we came to arrive in a helicopter to winch you off. Sir Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley and to the beach Miles the skipper zipped over There was no time, fortunately, to reflect on Tom Crean – we salute you. in the dinghy with a bottle of champagne. this while it was all happening. I did think Skip popped the bottle cork with one slash of about it afterwards, with a small shudder. To read the complete blog, visit my K2 ski and we drank an exultant toast to But I am also almost certain that whatever www.southbyeight.wordpress.com the Shackleton Traverse. It had been a great had befallen us, led by Stephen and Skip we adventure. would have found a way to deal with it. And there were more shared moments of triumph The tour as a whole was both harder and or commiseration with my companions than longer and more demanding than I’d I can list. The team spirit was the best thing expected – not technically difficult in itself, about our adventure – a word of muttered
The destination - the old Whaling Station on South Georgia. DHOJournal•2012•59
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The hills are alive with the sound of.....building (But not anymore!) Robert Stewart DHOJournal•2012•61
Recent changes in the Swiss property law might have an important impact on many second home owners in Alpine resorts
The hills are alive with the sound of.....building (But not anymore!) Robert Stewart
Back in March this year, the Swiss behind the voters’ decision. The vast electorate voted for an initiative to majority mentioned conservation and Cold beds restrict the number of second homes in protection of mountain landscapes but it’s What is certain is that within a region that Switzerland in each commune or also a matter of low occupation rates within already exceeds the 20% quota, if a planning municipality to no more than 20%. second homes that remain empty for all but a application for a second home was submitted The reasoning behind the change is not to few weeks a year. before March 11 2012, then it can only be keep out foreign buyers, 60% of second used as such if there are certain guarantees home owners in Switzerland are Swiss, The government is not particularly in in place. All second homes will have to be but more about restricting the support of this new law because managed intensively as high-occupancy proliferation of secondary residences economically it will have an impact on the tourist accommodation. This means filling in tourist locations, particularly in The tourist industry. Once the law is the beds throughout both summer and winter Alps. There are over half a million second implemented and becomes statute, some seasons to match the kind of occupancy you homes in Switzerland, equivalent to expect that prices in Alpine resort locations might find in the hotel industry. So because approximately 12 % of the overall housing will start to rise. Jeremy Rollason, Managing most alpine resorts already exceed the 20% stock and in the alpine cantons of Valais, Director of Alpine homes at Savills said in limit, this means second home occupancy Grison and Ticino the proportion of a statement, ‘one thing is certain and that is would have to rise by more than double in second homes is between 60 and 80%. that the number of land development many cases. The term ‘Cold Beds’ is used opportunities for second homes in to describe the empty, non-occupied rooms Switzerland will dry up in the next 12 to 24 that proliferate alpine resorts, if any building So Why Stop months. Consequently, we would urge any project plan was not submitted before the investors of new build or off plan property cut-off date of March 11 then the law will Building New to act sooner rather than later.’ But not prevent these beds from being unoccupied everyone thinks it’s as simple as that, the for any length of time. Chalets? Swiss government themselves are not The Swiss constitution includes a legal entirely sure what impact the new legislation There are still some uncertainties about what mandate that ensures appropriate and will have on property prices and think it’s a the situation is regarding existing second economical land use throughout every difficult one to judge. homes in regions where they already exceed region. But this was not the driving force the 20% ceiling. Will those properties be 62•DHOJournal•2012
able to sell as second homes in the future? voted in this referendum are city dwellers, The neighbours are at it This is still not clear and will depend on and whilst their intentions were good, they further decisions the Swiss government is yet maybe did not realise the full implications For anyone that owns property in to make. One interesting thought is how of this law’. Those implications may directly neighbouring France, the recent news about second homes have developed over the impact on the local workforce and open up changes in tax laws there could send a shiver decades, especially in the Swiss Alps. There many answered questions about the future through any non-resident property owner. are many Swiss citizens who live down in of apartment and chalet rentals in the Alps. The rise from 20% to 35.5% in tax on rental the valleys and the cities who own second Maybe the positive aspect of all this is to income from applicable properties has been homes up in the mountains, will they be able accelerate the discussions on this highly back dated to January 1, ensuring totally to sell their property or even rent it out in important subject. unexpected bills for any rental income years to come? No-one seems to be able to accrued. For anyone from outside the EU answer this question in full. I asked Isabelle what she thought personally that owns French property, the situation is about how the law will affect property rental even worse, with tax rising to 48.8%, and if I caught up with Isabelle Hefti from the in Verbier and elsewhere in Swiss ski resorts, you simply want to sell up and walk away Verbier St-Bernard tourist office in the Swiss she said, ‘we don’t really know yet how this then there’s bad news too. Brand new capital canton of Valais. Verbier already far exceeds law will be applied; a national commission gains tax laws now state you must own a the maximum quota for second homes and is working on the subject. Maybe people will property for more than 30 years, as opposed is well above the 20% limit that has been like to invent other solutions, like sharing to the previous 15, to be exempt from CGT, imposed, but it’s not such a black and white property with other owners; it could be a one alternative, become a French citizen and situation there. Isabelle pointed out that for good alternative’. avoid the new tax when selling up! many years, Verbier have instigated strict laws against building property that is not Holiday swapping clubs like www. This article was written by Robert Stewart suitable for the surrounding environment, snowswappers.com will be able to take of The Skiing Department she goes onto say, ‘In Verbier and the rest of advantage of the changes as they allow (www.theskiingdepartment.com). the region, we really care for the landscape, members to exchange their second homes Robert supports Snow Swappers this is our most important treasure. Many with each other, both increasing the (www.snowswappers.com) a holiday local people also have their second home occupancy rate and providing them with a swapping service for owners of ski resort close to where they live. It is part of our chance to explore other resorts. property anywhere in the world history and culture. Many of the people that DHOJournal•2012•63
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Above left: Jean-Daniel Gluck receiving the McMillan Cup from Max Davies.
Above middle: Ed Perrott receiving the Big John Cup from Big John Polatch. Wengen Faces Above right: George Senior receiving the Half-Ton Cup from Mike Austin. 2012
Left: Andrew, Hayley and Lachlan Davies - the enlarged Davies family whilst still in hospital.
Bottom left: Chrissie Carnegie with Richard Prest on left and John Smith on right.
Below: Lucy Maskey collecting the Lucy Dicker Plate for winning the night time parallel slalom race of some 40 competitors. 66•DHOJournal•2012
DHO group at the Jägerstübli on 1st April, snowless for the last 50 metres. The last day the run was open.
Above and right: The first five seconds of 2012’s McMillan Cup Race DHOJournal•2012•67
Celebrating at the President’s Party
Above: Coggins Prize giving.
After five seconds of the McMillan Cup Race.
Above: Michael Maskey blooded at the end of the McMillan Cup Race. 68•DHOJournal•2012
Max Davies welcomes everyone
Above: (Left) Paul von Allmen and (middle) Hans Peter Gertsch share a joke at the President’s Party.
Left: Guests arrive at the party.
Below: The girls from the Wengen Tourismus before entering the President’s Party. DHOJournal•2012•69
Above: A Scarf presented (and framed) by Nigel Cornelius containing depictions of many of the oldest ski club badges. Either his mother’s or his grandmother’s.
Left: Theo and Ursula Mutti who stood on the Hubel opposite the Club Room and brilliantly serenaded the Presidents Party.
Below: Will Wells, Will Perrott, Leo Flindall after the Jungfrau Marathon in Sept 2012. They raised £3,000 for Myles Robinson’s Trust. 70•DHOJournal•2012
Obituary: Peter Lunn CMG OBE Born: 15 November 1914 Died: 13th November 2011
Peter Lunn aged 90 and inset, with his father at just 3 years old
Peter Lunn may have been a founder Mürren in the Bernese Oberland, often Club of Great Britain’s magazine, on the member of the Kandahar in 1924 with beating competitors several times his age. history of skiing, ski technique and the whom he was always automatically different qualities of snow. On the latter associated, but he also joined the DHO When his father founded the Kandahar subject he could speak from experience for in 1963 and was thus a member of the Ski Club to promote downhill ski racing, he preferred above all to ski off piste, where DHO for 49 years, not a bad innings for Peter, aged 10, was upstairs in bed but was a knowledge of powder, ice and breakable any member. told next morning that he had been made a crust were essential to enjoyment. He would founder member of the club. From 1978- often ski in areas where it would have been Three things were paramount in Peter Lunn’s 1984 he was elected President. dangerous without a knowledge of what life, religion, skiing and his work for MI6. causes avalanches. He sometimes had to A convert to Catholicism in 1933, like his When just 21, at the 1936 Winter Olympics restrict these off piste explorations because father, he was a regular church goer. at Garmisch Partenkirchen – the first those who were less expert would follow his He used to spend each winter in Mürren, Olympics to include Downhill and Slalom tracks and put themselves in danger. walking up the slopes if the lifts did not run. racing - Peter Lunn captained the British About his work for M16 he never spoke team. He admitted that he was too worried In 1985 a dangerous driver crashed into his having given an oath of secrecy when he about his responsibilities to do well in those car and he was told that it was unlikely he joined the service. The only things known races himself but he came 9th in the World would walk again, let alone ski. Patiently he to his friends were those published by other Alpine Ski Championships later that year. took exercise until able to ski again. people. When George Blake was He took a fast and accurate line on a steep, He continued to spend each winter in discovered to be a Russian spy, the narrow and icy downhill track lined with Mürren. And when in Britain for the Russians said that Peter Lunn was Britain’s tree stumps, down which many of the summer months he kept fit by waterskiing. best counter espionage agent. Later other international racers fell. On his 90th birthday, in November 2004 he people, notably Americans, wrote books waterskied in spite of the weather, in order to about counter espionage which showed him In 1939 he married the Hon Antoinette prepare for the Inferno race two months later. to have organised the tapping of Russian Preston, daughter of Viscount Gormanston. lines under Vienna and Berlin but Lunn She and two of their six children In January 2005 his family as a 90th birthday himself never wrote or referred to his work. predeceased him. When war stopped all ski present made up a Lunn team for the Inferno He was awarded the OBE in 1951 and the racing, Peter Lunn served in the Army and race at Mürren a test which scares over CMG in 1957. spent some months in Malta while it was 1,000 people every year. Despite blizzard heavily bombed and the island earned the conditions which prevented the full course As son of Britain’s ski pioneer, Sir Arnold George Cross for its bravery. Lunn wrote an being used and included a very testing uphill Lunn, Peter Lunn was put on skis shortly article comparing the feelings of a downhill section, Peter Lunn finished the race in good before his second birthday and was still racer before competing, with the feelings of time with children and grandchildren. racing after his 90th birthday. When Arnold one suffering heavy bombardment. Lunn was employing a nanny in Grindelwald He wore his beliefs lightly and without the for his children he chose the best skier rather He wrote several books, including the least hint of disregard for those whose than the best child minder in the village. “Guinness Book of Skiing”, which gives an beliefs differed or failed to match the Brought up mostly in the Alps, Peter Lunn, admirable history of skiing as well as a broad integrity of his own. even as a child, took part in ski races at view of the sport. He also wrote for the Ski EAH DHOJournal•2012•71
Obituary: Sarah Brindley Alken Born: 15 August 1965 Died: 11 December 2011
Sarah Brindley’s first glimpse of Wengen the Obstacle Race and the Giant Slalom over was at Christmas 1970 when Elsa Cova the Bumps Course. welcomed her at the doors of the Hotel Falken where the older members of the Sarah also showed considerable enthusiasm family had enjoyed their Winter on the curling rink and was a member of Wonderland over the previous few years. victorious Irish team which won the Nations Trophy sponsored by the Hotel Falken in 1985. It wasn’t long before Sarah was encouraged to join the Coggins and she spent many Some years later her future husband Gregory happy years under the watchful eye of her Alken came on the scene and they were namesake Sarah Myles who was Honorary married at the family’s Co. Meath home in Coggins Secretary in those days. July 1999. Sarah and Greg have three patience and wonderful courage. It was her children Sophie, Jennifer and Conor all of final wish that the family would continue to As Sarah Brindley grew a little older she whom joined the D.H.O in 2009. enjoy the happiness which Wengen and all began to feature in the competitive side of her friends in the village and in the D.H.O affairs and, after some fairly serious training, Last December Sarah passed away after a had provided over the best part of fifty years she scored a double in 1976 when winning long illness which she bore with great BB
Obituary: Adrian Smith Born: March 1959 Died: June 2011
I was really shocked to hear the sad news Adrian was a creature of habit, he always that Adrian had died suddenly in June stayed at the Regina Hotel with Guido and last year, especially as he was only 52, Arianne which was just as well really as I just couldn’t believe it. I had only just a friend of his called Robert also stayed got back in touch with him after several there. He came to Adrian’s rescue one year years and we were talking of skiing I remember. I got a call from Adrian he said together again. I first met Adrian in “there isn’t much snow in Wengen so Wengen back in 1983 when he became I have booked for us to go to Vail instead”. a member of the DHO. I said “but what about your girlfriend who is coming out while we are meant to be there”. He was a great chum, very keen skier and racer; he only ever skied in a straight line! “Oh don’t worry about her I have arranged He won the McMillan cup at least twice if for Robert to look after her”. Typical Adrian not more, I can’t remember now and many he lived for his skiing and skiing always other DHO cups too. He was also awarded came first. a DHO Silver Badge, Bronze Racing Arrow and Club Skiing Award. He raced I remember the famous ‘pots and pans’ in the DHO Inferno team for many years parties at the Falken Hotel with the late and earned a few bronze medals along the Andreas Cova, Big John and many others way. I have lots of fond memories of our we all had far too much to drink and lots of skiing days together; we always booked laughs wearing half the chefs cooking pots memories of the fun we had together both on Tino to take us for a few private lessons just and pans on our heads. I am sure lots of and off the piste and the enthusiasm he had to get the old ski legs going not because we people thought we were mad. Sadly I lost for the sport. couldn’t ski! And he certainly put us through touch with Adrian after he stopped skiing in our paces! Wengen however I will always have good CR & SMK 72•DHOJournal•2012
Obituary: Nelson Pratt Born: 1979 Died: July 2012
Nelson came from a longstanding family of DHO members, his grandmother was Joan Shearing - a British champion and a racer of note in the 50s - and a long time DHO rep. His mother was Edith Pratt (nee Shearing), a race trainee and racer earning a Racing Arrow.
Along with his brother Christopher, Nelson he returned home and enrolled at uni the positive as ever. was a race trainee in 1991. He was also following year, the call of the mountains a keen skateboarder and this gave rise to proved too strong and he rejoined our gang Nelson’s grounded perspective perhaps came a natural conversion to snowboarding in in Tignes early in the 1998/99 season, where from his upbringing on an arable farm in the fullness of time. Thereafter he deserted we enjoyed one of the most epic powder Hampshire. He hated technology (famously skiing to concentrate on Freestyle snow- winters on record. rocking a trusty brick of a mobile phone) boarding at which he became so good he and seemed profoundly connected to nature. was regarded as something of an icon. The For a long time, he was that seasonaire mate Indeed he was only truly at home outdoors, magazine “Whitelines” is the bible of free- you always thought deserved to be sponsored where he could spend his immense physical style riders and we are greatly indebted to Ed but who had somehow failed to be spotted. energy digging jumps or helping his family Blomfield, the editor of Whitelines who sent The truth is he was just too shy and polite a with the harvest. Nelson was a man with us the following: chap to go hassling for free kit, and he was giant strength, a giant appetite and a giant always really in it for the love. Soon enough, heart. A true gentleman. It feels surreal to be writing this, but Nelson however, word got out of his ability, and Pratt – one of the most talented and popular Nelson became one of the most respected Recently, Nelson had been passing on his snowboarders in the UK – has died. riders in the UK scene, enjoying a long knowledge to other riders through his work partnership with K2 snowboards. with the Army and the British Snowboard I first met “Nelly” in Tignes, during the Team. His technical ability and natural winter of 1997/98. He and I had both just Beyond the riding, Nelson was quite simply charm made him the ideal coach. He will be left school and were embarking on our first one of the nicest guys I have ever met in my sorely missed by everyone he touched in the season in the Alps, working for Crystal life. People always say things like that after snowboard community, but most of all by his Holidays. While I was scrubbing toilets in a a death of course, but in Nelly’s case I family back in Hampshire. Our thoughts go chalet, Nelson and his new best pal Marcus honestly don’t know anyone that didn’t love out to them at this tragic time. Chapman were mastering the art of dish him to bits. How could you not? He was pigging in the bowels of the Curling Hotel. friendly, funny, loyal and above all humble. EB While he now rode with the elite, he never Until that December, Nelson had only forgot his original seasonaire buddies; there We would like to extend the DHO’s enjoyed about eight weeks on snow, but he just was not an arrogant bone in his body. condolences to Nelson’s parents Edith and was already pretty handy on a skateboard Years later, when I got this job at Whitelines, Nigel and his brother Christopher, all three and took to snowboarding like the proverbial I was lucky enough to hook up with Nelson are DHO members. duck. He had a relaxed style and managed on magazine trips to Kashmir, Mt Baker and to make any trick look simple. Although Canada, and he remained as smiley and DHOJournal•2012•73
Obituary: Helen Carmichael Born: 1928 Died: 2011
Helen Carmichael was born in Glasgow Ros made Helen Racing and Training in 1928 and was part of the dynamic house-mother, a position she kept for many climbing/skiing group of young years. It was for her unstinting work in Glaswegians who moved to the Highlands this position that brought about her being enmasse in the 1960s and put Glencoe elected an Honorary Member of the DHO. and Aviemore on the map. Helen climbed During the season she was employed by the the Matterhorn when she was 19 years Scottish Ski Club to run their club hut in old, the only lady amongst 10 guys. It was the Cairngorms and I can see Helen now, a amongst such fellow adventurers that she large rucksack on her back, carrying a bag in met her husband Alex (nicknamed Hoagy) each hand, making her way across the White Carmichael. Lady to the SSC hut where she served food and hot drinks and generally looked after the Ros Hepworth spotted the Carmichael club members. She was much loved. children in the 1970s and wee Helen, Evelyn and Stephen were all DHO trainees. IEC Helen with husband Alex (Hoagy) 74•DHOJournal•2012
Club News 2012
List of Officers & Committee Members 2011/12
President: Hon.Treasurer: Alpine Committee. Max Davies Mr E.D. Lonie Richard Hackett (chairman), John Smith Boraston House, (deputy chairman), Liz Moore (secretary), Lizzie Vice-Presidents: 22 Ravelston Dykes Road, Davis, Tessa Lawrance, Bob Eastwood, Ingie M. J. Woodhall Edinburgh EH4 3PB. Christophersen, James Maskey. S M Davies tel: 0131 336 4494 Marketing and Communications Committee. Norman Freund (chairman), Freddie Whitelaw, Hon.Secretary: Hon.Membership Secretary: Kieran Stevens, Mike Easley, Elaine McLeod, Mrs Sarah Hoyle, Mrs E. Macleod, Martin West, Louise Leach, Alan Norris. 4 The Chines, Delamere Park, The Old Rectory, Wyton, Cuddington, Huntingdon, Racing and Training Committee Cheshire CW8 2XA Cambs, PE28 2AQ. Jamie Rankin (chairman), Ingie Christophersen tel: 01606 889599 Weekends: tel: 01480 462545 (R & T manager), Sarah Hoyle, Lesley Alexander, email: [email protected] fax: 01480 301387 Cathie Crouch, Graham Crouch. email: [email protected] The names of members nominated for committee and Hon.Editor: those of any officers of the club who are subject to Freddie Whitelaw Directors: re-election at the 2013 A.G.M. are stated in the A.G.M Riverside Cottage R. M. Davies Notice enclosed with this Journal. Fellows Lane Dr H. Alban Davies Racing Manager: Caergwrle E.D. Lonie Miss I. Christophersen, Wrexham LL12 9AU M.J. Woodhall Bentley, Hallands, Tel 01978 769333 S.M. Davies Lewes, Email [email protected] Company secretary East Sussex BN8 5AF E.V.F. Perrott tel: 01825 840043 Hon.Advertising Officer: email: [email protected] Mr N. Freund, General Committee: This committee comprises all officers of the club Barnwell, Wengen Manager: plus the chairman of each sub-committee. High Street South, Andrew Davies (Winter address) Tiffield, Sub-committees: D.H.O Office, Northants NN12 8AB. House Committee tel: 01327 353166 Brian Philips (chairman), Diane Paterson, CH-3823 Wengen, email: [email protected] Tony Davis, Susie Davies, Don McCutchan, Switzerland Margaret Gerber. tel: 00 41 33 855 1375
Presidents & Vice Presidents
Presidents: Vice-Presidents: 1924-25: Major C.J. White MC K.D. Foster - 1925-26: Major S.F. Fisken MC - - 1926-28: Major C.J. White MC - - 1928-29: Major C.J. White MC Fl Off H.R.D. Waghorn Capt. J.C. Davis 1929-31: Flt.Lt H.R.D. Waghorn AFC Capt. J.C. Davis T.R. Fox 1931-32: T.R. Fox C.F.S. Taylor Major C.J. White MC 1932-33: Major C.J. White MC T.R. Fox C.F.S. Taylor 1933-34: lt.Cdr R.B. Gossage RN Capt. R.A.D. Fullerton C.E. Gardner 1934-35: K.D. Foster Capt. R.A.D. Fullerton Major C.J. White MC 1935-36: Capt. R.A.D. Fullerton K.D. Foster T.R. Fox 1936-37: Capt. R.A.D. Fullerton Major H.W. Hall MC - DHOJournal•2012•75
Presidents & Vice Presidents (continued)
PRESIDENTS: Vice-Presidents: 1937-38: Major H.W. Hall MC J.W. Richardson - 1938-45: wartime Trustees: Capt.R.A.D. Fullerton, P.M. Hepworth and G. Paxton 1945-48: Col. C.J. Odling TD - - 1948-49: K.D. Foster MBE A.H.H. Gilligan A.A. Jarvis 1949-50: K.D. Foster MBE A.A. Jarvis h.M.J. Barnard-Hankey 1950-53: K.D. Foster MBE Sir Adrian Jarvis Bt. h.M.J. Barnard-Hankey 1953-56: Sir Adrian Jarvis Bt. H.M.J. Barnard-Hankey Mrs P.M. Hepworth 1956-57: K.D. Foster MBE Mrs P.M. Hepworth C.E.W. Mackintosh 1957-60: C.E.W. Mackintosh Mrs P.M. Hepworth The Hon.Max Aitken DSO DFC 1960-64: C.E.W. Mackintosh Mrs P.M. Hepworth Dr R.M. Mason 1964-67: h.S. Walduck Mrs P.M. Hepworth Dr R.M. Mason 1967-70: h.S. Walduck R.E.H. Edmonds M.O. Gill 1970-73: R.E.H. Edmonds M.O. Gill h.P. Gardner 1973-75: R.E.H. Edmonds M.O. Gill The Hon.Mrs S. Hensman 1975-76: The Hon. Mrs S. Hensman J.N. Paxton J. Latimer 1976-78: The Hon. Mrs S. Hensman J. Latimer - 1978-80: The Hon. Mrs S. Hensman J. Latimer J.D.D. Waghorn 1980-83: J.D.D. Waghorn J. Latimer D.K.D. Foster 1983-86: J.D.D. Waghorn J. Latimer P. Benson Browning 1986-91: Mrs R.E.H. Edmonds P. Benson Browning T.H. Walduck 1991-94: T.H. Walduck J. Latimer - 1995-96: T.H. Walduck N. Currie - 1996-00: T.H. Walduck Dr. I.W. McCormick Dr H.J. Alban Davies 2000-01: Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr I.W. McCormick - 2001-05: Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr I.W. McCormick E.D. Lonie 2005-11: R.M. Davies E.D. Lonie E.V.F. Perrott 2011-12: R.M. Davies M.J. Woodhall E.V.F. Perrott 2012-13: R.M. Davies M.J.Woodhall S.M. Davies
Hon. Editors of the DHO Journal
1936-38: K.D. Foster 1966-67: T.P. D. Ashburner 1989-90: b. Caulfield. 1939-45: Journal suspended 1968-75: D.N. Freund 1991-00: brig. D.F. Ryan 1946-55: K.D. Foster 1976-80: D.K.D. Foster 2000-09: D.T. Price 1956-65: R.E.H. Edmonds 1981-88: brig. D.F. Ryan 2010- F.W.D. Whitelaw
DHO Calendar 2012/13
Thurs 27th Dec 12 HEINZ CUP Pairs treasure hunt Thurs 14th Feb 13 Thurs 7th Mar 13 ANDY CAPP Handicap KURVEREIN CRYSTAL Pairs handicap Fri 18th - Sun 20th Jan 13 LAUBERHORN WORLD CUP Wed 13th Feb 13 Thurs 28th March 13 FUN NIGHT dual Slalom ODLING CUP Slalom Thurs 23rd – Sat 26th Jan 13 INFERNO Thurs 14th Feb 13 Thurs 4th Apr 13 POLYTECHNIC CUP Giant Slalom COVA CUP Thurs 31st Jan 13 RAILWAY CUP (by invitation) Thurs 21st Feb 13 Most Thursdays during the year will have a ANDY CAPP Handicap Members race if nothing else is scheduled, and Tues 5th Feb 13 a very extensive social scene is also organised. LUCY DICKER Night dual Slalom Thur 8th Mar – Sun 10th Mar 13 Please see the Events Insert contained in the AMATEUR INTER-CLUB Thurs 7th Feb 13 Journal which has much more detailed information CHAMPIONSHIPS, ZERMATT McMILLAN CUP Downhill (Post race dinner) on both races and social events. 76•DHOJournal•2012
Spring Tour Programme 16/17 DHO Wengen Office Hours March to 22nd March 2013 From 16th Dec 2012 to 7th April 2013 Monday to Sunday 17.30 – 19.00 Ian McCormick reports that the tour will take place (On bad weather days the club room will be open in the morning) Tel: 0041 33 855 1375 as follows: In the Gressoney-la-Trinite area in Italy, probably meeting in Martigny on the evening of Saturday 16th March and driving on to Gressoney Email Addresses via St Bernard Pass next morning (taking about About 30% of all our members have not given us This editor can justify the Journal on the basis that 3 hours.) Adolf Schlunegger will be the guide as their email addresses. We know that in Europe there it is a “coffee table” type publication and will never usual and will no doubt be aided by René Seiler. are some people who don’t have email access, but in his lifetime be sent out by any other means than Contact Ian as follows: that is thought to be less than 5%. Much of our on paper. But most other communications from us Telephone: 01489 877909 communication to our members is done by email. should be sent electronically. So please help us by Mobile: 07974 675 348 (preferably evenings) Surface mail is becoming increasingly and emailing our membership secretary Email : [email protected] unreasonably expensive. Using paper and ([email protected]) with your name consuming trees when we can send an email is and email address. difficult to justify. Deceased There may otherwise come a time when you will not Mrs Paula Beckwith Michael MI Hawkins receive anything from us but the Journal. Mrs Tessa Berry New Members 2012 The following have joined, or in some cases returned to, the DHO last season. The Club extends a warm welcome to all. Peter bennett Jane Dawson Jean Johns Adrian Pepper Jane bolle-Jones Gus de Ferranti Nick Jones Jonathan Percival Brian bollen Neasa Duffy Charlie Kidd Rudolf Redmund Margaret bollen John Duffy Camilla Kingham Sophie Rimell Erika brandt Ella Duffy Alfred Kingham Graham Rivers Orlando brandt Adrian Duffy Miranda lane George Senior Rupert brandt David Duffy Max laughland Vivien Stern Erika brandt Hawkings Edwards Charlie leach Samuel Andrew Suvan Kate branigan Vanessa Edwards Leavitt Jean Suvan Michael bright Carl Erhardt William leavitt Bob Suvan Robert brignall Simon Erhardt Edward lesley Theodore Taylor Gwenneth brignall Maz Fairfull Wendy Macfarlane Andrew Thompson Leslie brown Liza Fairfull Jeff Macfarlane Lynn Tingle Hans brunner Annabel Field Iain McNeish Timothy Trembath Suzanne brunner Alexander Field Aoife Miller Hans Tschabold Carin burchell John Field David Mills Joyce Tschabold Susan butler Michelle Field Patrick Mitchell Tipuna Tschabold Agatha Cantrill Guy Fisher Hazel Mitchell Te Moana Tschabold Patrick Cantrill Dougal Forsyth Ian Moir Aroha Tschabold Christina Carnegie Petra Frampton Joyce Moore Ferdinand unger Louise Caron Cain Gava Lucy nelson James ward-Jackson Margherita Castellam Alfredo Gonzales Matthew nolan Nicholas ward-Jackson Sarah Chilver-Stainer Richard Goodbody Kate nolan Isabella ward-Jackson Jamie Chilver-Stainer Antony Griffith Michael nolan Peter watson Louise Chilver-Stainer James hackett Christina olson Kate watson Anthony Colin Richard holt Georgina Panton James watson Richard Craven Deborah holtz Nicholas Panton Juliet watson Georgina Cutts Frederick hoult Avani Patel David williams-Gravener Nicholas Cutts Joanna hutton Raj Patel Hayley Davies Stuart hutton Maya Patel Andrew Davies Martin Joas Vijay Patel Where Are They Now? Despite all our best efforts we have been unable to trace the following members. Please could you let the membership Secretary know if you have any clues as to their whereabouts? Mr & Mrs TD yeates Mr AM ugland Mrs AC lee Mr R Determeyer Mr& Mrs DR watson Mr JM McCann Mr GS Jobling Miss SEC Childs Mrs CB Veall Mrs EJ Martineau Mr RVJ howell Mr MCStJ birt Mr MJ upton Mr AHE lefort Miss A M & J CHarnett DHOJournal•2012•77
Membership List 2012
HP Honorary President GA Gold Racing Arrow Mr TPD Ashburner Tim G GA 1954 P President/Past President SA Silver Racing Arrow Mr SR Ashman Stephen 2010 Mr AJR Ashman Alexand 2010 L Life Member BA Bronze Racing Arrow Mr R Aslett Rupert 2008 G Club Gold Badge RA Racing Arrow Mr A Aslett Alexand 2008 S Club Silver Badge D Club Skiing Award Mr MJ Austin Michael L S 1991 Mrs TH Austin Tanis 1991 Could members please notify me of Mr MAG Austin Mark S 2005 any errors or omissions? Mrs DM Austin Denise 2005 Miss hE Austin Holly 2005 Miss hlC Austin Hannah 2005 I have been asked by members who have rejoined the Club after Mr JMC Austin James 2007 some time away, if I could annotate their original year M le Dr A Axelrod Andre of joining. If you fall into this category, please contact me and I will attempt to alter the list accordingly. Mr R baguley Robert 2010 Miss R baguley Fiona 2010 Hon Membership Secretary Mr R baguley Thomas 2010 Mrs M baguley Mary 2010 Mr C Adams Christopher 1999 Mr J baker James Mrs S Adams Sara 1999 Miss A baker Anna 2004 Mr S Adams Sam 1999 Mr R baldwin Richard 2006 Mr G Adams George 1999 Mr S barlow Steve D 1978 Mr h Adams Hugo 1999 Mr R barlow Robert 2004 Mr RJ Adams Robin 2001 Mrs S barlow Susan 2004 Mr S Adams Steve 2010 Mr b barlow Benedict BA 2004 Mrs CE Adams Claire 2010 Mr X barlow Xavier BA 2004 Miss E Adams Elizabeth 2010 Mrs P barlow Pru 2005 Miss S Adams Sarah 2010 Mr S barr Steve 2009 Miss TM Adams Theresa 1999 Mr JD barstow John 2003 Dr. E Agema Robert 1969 Mrs EA barton Liz 1991 Mrs l Agostini Laura 2004 Mr PA barton Peter 1991 Dr h Alban-Davies Huw P G 1972 Mr RP batterham Robert 2003 Miss h Alban-Davies Hester 1991 Mr A battley Alexand 2009 Mr hC Alban-Davies Henry 1990 Mr GJ baylis George 2003 Mrs JJD Alban-Davies Jenny G L 1991 Mr RG baylis Robert 2008 Miss K Alban Kate 1991 Mrs. P beale 1965 Miss C Alcott Chimen GA G 1992 Mr Sn beare Stuart 1968 Mr b Alexander Ben 2003 Mr C beaton 1998 Miss S Alexander Sophy 2003 Mr PM beckwith Peter L 1979 Miss M Alexander Megan 2003 Mr Ch bee Christop 2011 Mrs l Alexander Lesley S 2003 Miss T bell Tara 2005 Mr S Alexander Sam 2003 Miss M bell Milla 2005 Miss S Alken Sophie 2009 Mr M bell Michael 2005 Miss J Alken Jennifer 2009 Miss h bell Hollie 2005 Mr C Alken Conor 2009 Mr AC bell Alexand 2000 Mr RP Allinson Rupert 2006 Mrs JMl bell (nee Paterson) Joanna 1981 Mrs G Allinson Geraldine 2006 Sir J benn Bt Jonathan L 1996 Mrs F Allinson Frederick 2006 Mr P bennett Peter 2012 Miss F Allinson Kitty 2006 Mr o bennett Oliver 2011 Mr TD Anderson Timothy 2007 Mrs S benthall Sally 2000 Mrs J Anderson Janie 2007 Mr RC berry Richard S 1993 Mr CR Apletree Chris 2010 Mrs ME berry Mauree S 1993 Mr PAJ Arengo-Jones Peter 2009 Earl bessborough Myles 2008 Mr J Arets Jacques 2010 Mrs MG bevan-Jones Muriel 1989 Mrs K Arets Karin 2010 Mr KR bidgood Keith 1987 Miss J Arets Jacqueli 2010 Mr JT billson Johnny 2007 Mr P Arets Patrice 2010 Mr TJ bingham Tim 2010 Miss K Arets Kathrin 2010 Mrs S bingham Shara 2010 Mr C Arets Christian 2010 Mr J bingham Jonathan 2010 Mrs J Armstrong Jill S 1968 Mr n bingham Nicholas 2010 78•DHOJournal•2012
Mr MD birch Melvyn 2011 Mr M bruton Matthew 1994 Mr R bird Richard 2007 Mrs C buchanan Cynthia 1976 Mr MJ birkett Michael 1981 Mr RAF buchanan Angus 2006 Mr MCStJ birt 1986 Mr T buchanan Thomas 2011 Mr JEP bishop John 1991 Mr M bucher Michael 2009 Mrs JAF bishop Janet 1981 Mrs E bucher Elissa 2009 Mr Jh blackmore John 2009 Lt RG buckton Rodney 2010 Mr KT blackshaw Kevin 2011 Mr J bumbaugh Jon 2008 Mr ATb blake Anthony 2009 Ms CE burchell Carin 2012 Mrs G blake Geraldine 2009 Mr bh burdett Brian 1999 Miss S blake Sarah 2009 Mrs GM burdett Gilliam 1998 Miss R blake Rachel 2009 Mrs MC burgerhout Meta--Carola L 1964 Mr C blake Charles 2009 Mr T burke-Murphy Timothy 2008 Mr KT blanks Kevin S 1987 Mrs MM burnford Mary S 1960 Mr MS blaver-Mann Mark 2011 Mr MJ burton Martin 2003 Mrs l blaver-Mann Lindsay 2011 Mr CJb burton Charlie 2003 Mrs A blaxland Anna 2007 Mr R burton Richard 2009 Mr wEG bode William 2009 Ms S butler Susan 2012 Mrs MJ bode Margaret 2009 Mr Jb buxton James 2004 Mrs JS bolle-Jones Jane 2012 Mr Jb buxton John 1961 Mr b bollen Brian 2012 Dr JV byrne James 1997 Mrs MP bollen Margaret 2012 Mrs JE byrne Juliet 1997 Mrs C bonnnefous 2007 Mr h byrne Henry 1997 Mr h boorman Henry 2009 Mr AMP booth Anthony 2010 Mrs JLM Caesar Jillian 1991 Mr E borgers Eise 1971 Mrs PJ Cairns Penelope 1984 Mrs D borgers Dorine 1982 Mr AA Callander Alistair 2004 Mrs S borgers-Klasing Shery 1971 Mrs J Callander Jenny 2004 Miss EM bowyer Evie S 1977 Miss S Callander Sarah 2007 Mr CR boyes Robin 1958 Mrs J Cameron Jill 1994 Mr S bradshaw Simon 2005 Mr J Campbell James 2007 Mrs F bradshaw Fenella 2005 Miss EM Campbell-Davis Alice 2002 Mr J bradshaw Jamie 2005 Mr TF Campbell-Davis Trevor 1991 Miss S bradshaw Sophie 2005 Mrs i Campbell-Gray Sally 1952 Dr E brandt Erika 2012 Mr i Campbell-Gray ian 1970 Mr R brandt Rupert 2012 Mr GFB Campbell-Johnston George S 1958 Mr o brandt Orlando 2012 Mr FJ Cannon Francis 1990 Miss E brandt Erika 2012 Miss A Cantrill Agatha 2012 Mr PMC branigan Patrick 2011 Mr P Cantrill Patrick 2012 Mrs K branigan Katharine 2011 Mr nJ Capel Neil 1995 Miss K branigan Kate 2012 Mr SR Capel Simon 1995 Mr Mw bright Michael 2012 Mr il Carmichael Ian 2003 Dr RLF brignall Robert 2012 Dr CMD Carnegie Christina 2012 Mrs GM brignall Gwenne 2012 Mrs lh Caron Louise 2012 Mr P brimelow Peter 2011 Mr RB Carruthers Richard 1985 Mr b brindley Basil 1967 Mr SM Carruthers Simon 1985 Mrs J brindley Julie 2002 Miss n Carruthers Nicola 1992 Mr A brockbank Alan 1991 Mr RGP Carss Richard 1987 Mr AJ brockbank Alan 1999 Ms M Castellam Margher 2012 Mrs n brockbank Nova 2002 The RTL Chaloner Toby 2010 Mr R brock-Hollinshead HM 1939 Mrs D Chaloner Diana 2010 Mrs S brooke Sarah 1978 Mr AR Chandler Alan 1990 Col MC brown Michael 1960 Mr GS Cherry Graham 1990 Mr l brown Leslie 2012 Miss SEC Childs Sophie 1992 Mr PM browne Paul 1988 Mrs S Chilver-Stainer Sarah 2012 Mr hAM browne Henry 1991 Mr J Chilver-Stainer Jamie 2012 Mr oTM browne Oliver 1991 Miss l Chilver-Stainer Louise 2012 Mrs CA browne Christina 1988 Miss CI Christophersen MBE ingrid G GA 1964 Mr ATM browne Alexander 1991 Mrs Cladder 1982 Miss bl bruce Louise 1990 Mr FHB Cladder Frans 1982 Mr JEF bruce John 1997 Mrs TT Cladder—van Haersolte Dorry 1980 Mrs AM brunner Annabel S 1991 Mr AWF Clapperton Wallace 1971 Herr h brunner Hans 2012 Mr GAF Clapperton Graeme 1986 Mr MJ brunner Mike G 1990 Mrs DM Clarabut Deirdre 1980 Fr S brunner Suzanne 2012 Mr PG Clarabut Philip 1980 Mr P brunner HM 1987 Mr R Clare Richard 1999 Miss Kl bruno Kathleen 2010 Mrs A Clare Anna 2011 DHOJournal•2012•79
Miss A Clare Arabella 2011 Mrs G Cutts Georgina 2012 Mr bh Clark Bruce 2009 Mr n Cutts Nicholas 2012 Mr PJ Clarkson Peter 2007 Mrs J Clarkson Jill 2007 Mr V Dale Vijay 2007 Mrs V Clayton Virginia L 2001 Miss S-A Dalton Shaun 1985 Mr T Clayton Thomas 2001 Mr DP d’Ambrumenil David 1950 Mr M Clayton Matthew D 2001 Mr J D’Arcy John 2011 Mrs KE Clayton Katrina 2003 Mr Mrs D’Arcy Helena T 2011 Mr n Clayton Neil 2003 Mr D’Arcy Thomas A 2011 Mr MF Clayton Miles 2005 Mr D’Arcy Aoife 2011 Mr hG Clayton Guy L G 1998 Mr G D’Arcy Gavin 2011 Miss nS Clough Nancy 1964 Mr RA Davenport Robin 1991 Mr F Clough Frankie BA 1990 Mrs M Davenport Maureen 2002 Mr T Clough Tom 2003 Miss GM Davies Gillian 1986 Mr F Clough Freddie 2003 Mr RM Davies Max G BA 1982 Mr S Clough Stefan 2003 Mr SJ Davies Stephen D 1986 Mr AF Clough Tony 2003 Mr RO Davies Roger 1991 Mrs P Clough Pip 2003 Mrs A Davies Adele 1991 Mrs FJ Cockersole 1976 Mrs SM Davies Susan L G 1993 Mr MR Cockerton Michael 2000 Mr AMB Davies Andrew 2012 Mrs hFB Cockerton Heather 2000 Mrs hS Davies Hayley 2012 Mrs MR Coldrey Margie 1979 Mr R Davies Robert S 1991 Mr wG Coldrey Bill S 1979 Mrs ED Davies Eden S L 1992 Ms G Colhoun Graenia 2007 Mr Q Davis Quentin 2011 Mr A Colin Anthony 2012 Dr A Davis Tony 2005 Mr AM Collett Michael RA 1954 Mrs EA Davis Liz S 1994 Mr PG Comelio Philip 2011 Miss J Dawson Jane 2012 Dr CP Comelio Christine 2011 Mr JRC Dawson John 1974 Mr SAB Comelio Sebastian 2011 Mr JK Day John 2005 Lord Congleton HM S 1956 Mrs C Day Clare 2005 Ms S Cooke Sarah 2005 Miss M Day Mary 2005 Mrs h Cooper Heide 2001 Mr C Day Christop 2005 Mr RSC Copeland Spencer S 1954 Miss iCC de Carvalho Isabel 2001 Mr RW Copeland Richard 1996 Mr T de Ferranti Tom 2010 Mr nR Cornelius Nigel S 1965 Mr G de Ferranti Gus 2012 Mr DJM Cornwell David 1980 Lt.C RAR de Larrinaga TD Rupert GA 1971 Mr n Cornwell Nicholas 1988 Mrs JL de Rivaz Julie 1988 Frl S Cova Sabrina 1999 Mr PC de Rivaz Paul 1988 Frl V Cova Valeria 1999 Mr PA de Vere Peter 2010 Cdr. PB Cowan RN Peter HM S 1937 Mrs J de Vere Julie 2010 Mr MA Coxon Mark 2011 Miss b de Vere Bella 2010 Mrs DL Coxon Donna 2011 Mr F de Vere Felix 2010 Miss ML Coxon Mia 2011 Ms D Deaken Donna 2011 Mr ZJ Coxon Zachary 2011 Mr bJ Delevingne Benjamin 2007 Mr FJ Coxon Finnley 2011 Frau K Denis Katie L 1964 Mr CB Craggs Christop 2002 Mr JH Deru Josh 2011 Mrs RM Craggs Rosalind 2002 Mrs D Deverell Diana 2002 Mr h Craggs Harry BA 2002 Mr S Dewar Simon 1985 Mr F Crane Freddie 2010 Mr DB Dick David 2005 Mr R Craven Richard 2012 Mrs MA Diggle Anne 1980 Mr D Crawley Daniel 2007 Mr P Diggle Peter 2009 Mr JJER Crockett Jonathon BA 1983 Miss R Diggle Rebecca 2009 Dr. RE Crockett Raymon 1983 Miss P Diggle Philippa 2009 Mrs E Crockett Elizabeth 1992 Mr D Dingle Dominic 2011 Miss n Crockett Nicola 1992 Mr DG Dollar David S 1956 Miss Z Crockett Zara 1992 Mr nh Dover Nicholas 2010 Mr GA Crouch Graham S 2003 Mrs KA Dover Kathy 2010 Mrs CM Crouch Catherine 2003 Mr A Dow Alexander 2005 Mr DP Crouch Daniel SA 1993 Mr PJ Doyle Philip 2002 Mrs b Cubby Betty 1959 Mr hJ Doyle Harry 2002 Mrs EJ Cudbird Elizabeth 2011 Lt.C ASG Drew Alastair GA S 1957 Mr l Cumberlege Luis RA L 1957 Mr w Drew William 2011 Mr SP Cunningham Simon 1998 Mrs K Drew Katherine 2011 Mrs K Currie Kathleen S 1980 Mr o Drew Oliver 2011 Mr MA Currie Mark RA 1972 Mr h Drew Henry 2011 Mrs J Currie Jenny 1991 Mr C Drew Charles 2011 Mr JT Curtis John 2007 Mr AM Du Plessis Andrew 1998 80•DHOJournal•2012
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