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'''Jean-Antoine Carrel''' (1829 – August 1890) was an Italian ] and ]. He had made climbs with ] and was his rival when he attempted to climb the ] for the first time. Whymper ultimately succeeded in making the mountain's ] in July 1865 while Carrel led the party that achieved the ] three days later. Carrel was in the group that became the first Europeans to reach the summit of ] in 1880.<ref name="Gos"/> He died from exhaustion when guiding a party on the south side of the Matterhorn. '''Jean-Antoine Carrel''' (1829 – August 1891) was an Italian ] and ]. He had made climbs with ] and was his rival when he attempted to climb the ] for the first time. Whymper ultimately succeeded in making the mountain's ] in July 1865 while Carrel led the party that achieved the ] three days later. Carrel was in the group that became the first Europeans to reach the summit of ] in 1880.<ref name="Gos"/> He died from exhaustion when guiding a party on the south side of the Matterhorn.


==Early life== ==Early life==
Carrel was born in 1829 in ], ] in the ], a French-speaking Italian village which lies at the foot of the ].<ref name=boyslife>{{cite news|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=02YEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30|title=Whymper allowed a beginner to join his climbing party. He should have known better.|work=]|date=December 1988|page=30}}</ref> He served in the ], a ] unit of the Piedmontese army. He resigned from the Bersaglieri to work as a hunter and ], but was recalled to duty in 1859 to defend Italy against Austria in the ], for which he won a French medal for the Italian campaign.<ref name=hansen>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=eep1B-8JZRkC&pg=PT188|pages=188-189|title=The Summits of Modern Man|last=Hansen|first=Peter H.|publisher=]|year=2013|isbn=9780674074552}}</ref> Carrel was born on 16 January 1829 in ], in the ], an ]-speaking village of ] (now ]) which lies at the foot of the ].<ref name=boyslife>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=02YEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30|title=Whymper allowed a beginner to join his climbing party. He should have known better.|work=]|date=December 1988|page=30}}</ref> He served in the ], a ] unit of the Piedmontese army. He resigned from the Bersaglieri to work as a hunter and ], but was recalled to duty in 1859 to defend Italy against Austria in the ], for which he won a French medal for the Italian campaign.<ref name=hansen>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eep1B-8JZRkC&pg=PT188|pages=188–189|title=The Summits of Modern Man|last=Hansen|first=Peter H.|publisher=]|year=2013|isbn=9780674074552}}</ref>


==Ascent of the Matterhorn== ==Ascent of the Matterhorn==
{{Main article|Second ascent of the Matterhorn}} {{Main article|Second ascent of the Matterhorn}}
Carrel first attempted to climb the Matterhorn's Lion Ridge in 1857—by which time the mountain was the tallest unclimbed peak in the Alps—with his uncle and ]. In the early 1860s, Carrel made numerous attempts to climb the Matterhorn, often in the same party as ] and ], and at other times competing against them to reach the summit first.<ref name=hansen/> Carrel had agreed to accompany Whymper on his ascent of the Swiss side in 1865, but withdrew at the last minute when he was recruited by ] on behalf of the ] to lead an Italian party up the Italian side at the same time. Ultimately, Whymper's party outclimbed the Italians and reached the summit on 14 July 1865, marking the ].<ref name=boyslife/> Carrel and his Italian party successfully summited the Matterhorn three days later.<ref>{{cite book|title=Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HGIcabCZHVUC&pg=PA84|first=Mark|last=Bowen|page=84|publisher=]|year=2006|isbn=9781429932707}}</ref> Carrel first attempted to climb the Matterhorn's Lion Ridge in 1857—by which time the mountain was the tallest unclimbed peak in the Alps—with his uncle and ]. In the early 1860s, Carrel made numerous attempts to climb the Matterhorn, often in the same party as ] and ], and at other times competing against them to reach the summit first.<ref name=hansen/> Carrel had agreed to accompany Whymper on his ascent of the Swiss side in 1865, but withdrew at the last minute when he was recruited by ] on behalf of the ] to lead an Italian party up the Italian side at the same time. Ultimately, Whymper's party outclimbed the Italians and reached the summit on 14 July 1865, marking the ].<ref name=boyslife/> Carrel and his Italian party successfully summited the Matterhorn three days later.<ref>{{cite book|title=Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGIcabCZHVUC&pg=PA84|first=Mark|last=Bowen|page=84|publisher=]|year=2006|isbn=9781429932707}}</ref>

In September 1867, Carrel and his daughter ] were among a party attempting to climb the Matterhorn, but most turned back before the summit. Félicité Carrel is the first known woman to attempt to climb the Matterhorn.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Carrel, Felicite (fl. 1860s) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/carrel-felicite-fl-1860s|access-date=2021-03-27|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>


==Death== ==Death==
Carrel died in August 1890 while guiding a party on the south side of the Matterhorn.<ref name="Gos">{{cite book|last=Gos|first=Charles|title=Alpine Tragedy|chapter=Carrel the Great|others=Trans. Malcolm Barnes|location=]|publisher=]|year=1948|pages=218&ndash;228}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CEED91E31E033A25752C0A96F9C946097D6CF |title=Fatalities of Mountaineering |work=]|date=1 September 1901|accessdate=13 September 2014}}</ref> After ensuring that his clients descended the mountain safely and easily in a severe storm, he collapsed from exhaustion and died on a rock at the mountain's base.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jonathan|last=Simon|chapter=High Altitude Rescue as Moral Risk and Moral Opportunity|page=383|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YWxDM1v1EFEC&pg=PA383|title=Risk and Morality|year=2003|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9780802085634}}</ref> Carrel died in August 1891 while guiding a party on the south side of the Matterhorn.<ref name="Gos">{{cite book|last=Gos|first=Charles|title=Alpine Tragedy|chapter=Carrel the Great|others=Trans. Malcolm Barnes|location=]|publisher=]|year=1948|pages=218&ndash;228}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CEED91E31E033A25752C0A96F9C946097D6CF |title=Fatalities of Mountaineering (note that this article, a compendium of mountain accidents over several years, states that Carrel's death occurred in 1890 but this is probably a mistake since 1891 is carved on Carrel's memorial cross) |work=]|date=1 September 1901|access-date=13 September 2014}}</ref> After ensuring that his clients descended the mountain safely and easily in a severe storm, he collapsed from exhaustion and died on a rock at the mountain's base.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jonathan|last=Simon|chapter=High Altitude Rescue as Moral Risk and Moral Opportunity|page=383|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWxDM1v1EFEC&pg=PA383|title=Risk and Morality|year=2003|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9780802085634}}</ref>


After Carrel's death, Whymper wrote that Carrel was "a man who was possessed with a pure and genuine love of mountains; a man of originality and resource, courage and determination, who delighted in exploration ... The manner of his death strikes a chord in hearts he never knew."<ref>{{cite book|title=Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860&ndash;69|first=Edward|last=Whymper|page=418|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=k6uScEubYogC&pg=PA418|publisher=Courier Dover Publication|year=1996|isbn=9780486289724}}</ref> After Carrel's death, Whymper wrote that Carrel was "a man who was possessed with a pure and genuine love of mountains; a man of originality and resource, courage and determination, who delighted in exploration ... The manner of his death strikes a chord in hearts he never knew."<ref>{{cite book|title=Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860&ndash;69|first=Edward|last=Whymper|page=418|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k6uScEubYogC&pg=PA418|publisher=Courier Dover Publication|year=1996|isbn=9780486289724}}</ref>


==References== ==References==
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Latest revision as of 09:22, 24 November 2024

Italian mountain climber and guide
Carrel, as depicted in Edward Whymper's memoir Scrambles Amongst the Alps
Jean-Antoine Carrel

Jean-Antoine Carrel (1829 – August 1891) was an Italian mountain climber and guide. He had made climbs with Edward Whymper and was his rival when he attempted to climb the Matterhorn for the first time. Whymper ultimately succeeded in making the mountain's first ascent in July 1865 while Carrel led the party that achieved the second ascent three days later. Carrel was in the group that became the first Europeans to reach the summit of Chimborazo in 1880. He died from exhaustion when guiding a party on the south side of the Matterhorn.

Early life

Carrel was born on 16 January 1829 in Valtournenche, in the Aosta Valley, an Arpitan-speaking village of Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) which lies at the foot of the Matterhorn. He served in the Bersaglieri, a light infantry unit of the Piedmontese army. He resigned from the Bersaglieri to work as a hunter and mountain guide, but was recalled to duty in 1859 to defend Italy against Austria in the Second Italian War of Independence, for which he won a French medal for the Italian campaign.

Ascent of the Matterhorn

Main article: Second ascent of the Matterhorn

Carrel first attempted to climb the Matterhorn's Lion Ridge in 1857—by which time the mountain was the tallest unclimbed peak in the Alps—with his uncle and Amé Gorret. In the early 1860s, Carrel made numerous attempts to climb the Matterhorn, often in the same party as Edward Whymper and John Tyndall, and at other times competing against them to reach the summit first. Carrel had agreed to accompany Whymper on his ascent of the Swiss side in 1865, but withdrew at the last minute when he was recruited by Felice Giordano on behalf of the Italian Alpine Club to lead an Italian party up the Italian side at the same time. Ultimately, Whymper's party outclimbed the Italians and reached the summit on 14 July 1865, marking the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Carrel and his Italian party successfully summited the Matterhorn three days later.

In September 1867, Carrel and his daughter Félicité Carrel were among a party attempting to climb the Matterhorn, but most turned back before the summit. Félicité Carrel is the first known woman to attempt to climb the Matterhorn.

Death

Carrel died in August 1891 while guiding a party on the south side of the Matterhorn. After ensuring that his clients descended the mountain safely and easily in a severe storm, he collapsed from exhaustion and died on a rock at the mountain's base.

After Carrel's death, Whymper wrote that Carrel was "a man who was possessed with a pure and genuine love of mountains; a man of originality and resource, courage and determination, who delighted in exploration ... The manner of his death strikes a chord in hearts he never knew."

References

  1. ^ Gos, Charles (1948). "Carrel the Great". Alpine Tragedy. Trans. Malcolm Barnes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 218–228.
  2. ^ "Whymper allowed a beginner to join his climbing party. He should have known better". Boys' Life. December 1988. p. 30.
  3. ^ Hansen, Peter H. (2013). The Summits of Modern Man. Harvard University Press. pp. 188–189. ISBN 9780674074552.
  4. Bowen, Mark (2006). Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains. Macmillan Publishers. p. 84. ISBN 9781429932707.
  5. "Carrel, Felicite (fl. 1860s) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  6. "Fatalities of Mountaineering (note that this article, a compendium of mountain accidents over several years, states that Carrel's death occurred in 1890 but this is probably a mistake since 1891 is carved on Carrel's memorial cross)". The New York Times. 1 September 1901. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  7. Simon, Jonathan (2003). "High Altitude Rescue as Moral Risk and Moral Opportunity". Risk and Morality. University of Toronto Press. p. 383. ISBN 9780802085634.
  8. Whymper, Edward (1996). Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860–69. Courier Dover Publication. p. 418. ISBN 9780486289724.
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