Leonard Carrel: a Matterhorn Guide
Leonard Carrel 1871-1940
Son of Jean-Antoine , “il Bersagliere”, “THE Matterhorn Guide”, an extraordinary career and a Guide of strong ethical values
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- 56 Matterhorn Ascents
- 40 years as an alpine guide
- first ascents on various Mte Rosa routes
- ascents on Pennine Alps and Bern Alps
LEONARD CARREL
Son of the illustrious Jean-Antoine, “the Matterhorn Guide” par excellence; appointed bearer May 20, 1894, and guide June 19, 1899, carried out his mountaineering activities up to 1939, climbing the Matterhorn fifty-six times, and making ascents in the Monte Rosa massif and the highest peaks of the Pennine and Bernese Alps. On April 10 1904, with mountaineer Gabriel De Bottini and the other guide Valtournanche Abel Pession, he did make the first ascent of Mont Avi or Au (3,006 meters, Valle d’Aosta) to the south ridge; in 1938, at sixty-seven, yet he made the ascent of the Breithorn (4165 meters). He died in Cervinia on December 24 1940.