Charles Adolphe Reymond

Born: 1875.

Died: 1914.

Charles Adolphe Reymond of Fontaine, Val de Ruz, was a Swiss Army officer with Alpine experience, quiet and dour. He called himself a Lebenskünstler, or connoisseur of the art of living. His small pension afforded him a pleasant and simple lifestyle; for instance, he once spent an entire winter at Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, skiing and lazing in the sun. He was a natural and skilled climber, having worked with a guide primarily in the Valais and Mont Blanc chains. Until being enlisted for Aleister Crowley's Kanchenjunga climb, he worked as an editor at the Swiss telegraphic agency in Geneva. Reymond quipped that the primary purpose of the expedition to Kanchenjunga was to have a good time; beating the world altitude record was secondary. Crowley liked him and thought he had good sense and seemed stable.

Dr. Jules Jacot Guillarmod,

Charles Adolphe Reymond

and Alesti De Righi at

Kanchenjunga Base Camp

1905.

Charles-Adolphe Reymond

engraving a tombstone for

the mausoleum for

Lt. Alexis Pache. [298]