On September 2, 2006, in the
Segantini
Museum
in
St. Moritz
, the King Albert I Memorial Foundation presents the golden “King Albert Mountain Award” to an internationally well-known Canadian institution: “The Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre” and its directors Bernadette McDonald and Leslie Taylor for their outstanding leadership. The Foundation, which honours the Belgian King Albert I who died while climbing in 1934, presents also four additional gold medals to the German Werner Bätzing, “the leading expert for the problems of the entire Alpine region with an interdisciplinary and international perspective”; to Ursula Bauer and Jürg Frischknecht from Zurich for their creation of “a new type of literary tour book, which describes the people in their cultural and natural environment, offers hikers lasting knowledge and enjoyment en route and stimulates a fascination for known and unkown Swiss and Italian Alps“; to the mountaineer and author Harish Kapadia from India, „for his longstanding commitment to the Indian Himalayas and his unique contribution to the sustainable development of its people by promoting awareness of their existence and struggles”; and finally to the Swiss-Austrian Oswald Oelz, a leading researcher in high altitude medicine, successful mountaineer and writer, who “lived his whole life inspired by the mountains”.
The King Albert I Memorial Foundation, registered in
Zurich
, was founded by Walter Amstutz in 1993 in honour of the Belgian King Albert I (1875-1934), a great alpinist and fervent mountain climber. The foundation’s aim is to honour individuals or institutions which, through their efforts in any area pertaining to the mountain regions of the world, have made outstanding and lasting achievements.
Visit the foundation’s Website: www.king-albert.ch
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