Henry Russell (explorer) Henry Patrick Marie, Count Russell-Killough was one of the pioneers of Pyrenean exploration, known for his obsession with the Vignemale .Early life Russell's father was Thomas John Russell, who was feudal baron of Killough , County Down, and a relative of Charles Russell, later Baron Russell of Killowen . Thomas John Russell emigrated to France aged 22 to escape anti-Catholic discrimination in Ireland . He fought in the Papal Army in 1860 and was made a Papal Count in 1862. Henry was born in Toulouse to Thomas' second wife, Marie-Josephine-Aglaë-Ferdinande, daughter of the Marquis de Flamarens. Henry was educated in Ireland at Clongowes Wood College .Henry Russell undertook his first distant voyage at the age of 23, to North America. In 1858 he climbed Pic de Néouvielle in the Néouvielle massif from Barèges , as well as the Ardiden , and made three ascents of Monte Perdido . In 1859 he made his second voyage, which lasted three years. He travelled to Saint Petersburg , Moscow , Irkutsk and Beijing , crossing the Gobi Desert twice and descending the Amur River . He stayed in Shanghai and Hong Kong , then travelled on to Australia and New Zealand . He spent a year in India and returned to France by Cairo and Istanbul .Pyrenean exploration From 1861, Russell became devoted to the exploration of the Pyrenees. On his own or in the company of his guides, he made numerous first ascents , surviving financially on his personal fortune and his investments. He is especially known for his ascents of the Vignemale, which he climbed for the first time on 14 September 1861 with the guide Laurent Passet. In 1864 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre , together with Charles Packe , Farnham Maxwell-Lyte and Emilien Frossard, he formed a society devoted primarily to the scientific and ethnographic study of the Pyrenees: the Société Ramond , still extant today. In 1868 he climbed the Vignemale for a second time, with Hippolyte Passet. For his third ascent on 11 February 1869, and the first winter ascent of the peak , he was accompanied by Hippolyte and Henri Passet. Being keen to spend nights on the Vignemale, he bivouacked in the open – buried by his guides in a blanket of rocks and earth – on the summit of Pic Longue on 26 August 1880. It was at this point that he considered the installation of caves on the mountain, reasoning that any other construction would be unaesthetic and unwelcome. On his instructions, seven caves were built between 1881 and 1893. In August 1882, the first cave was completed; this was the villa Russell , located at 3,205 m at the col of Cerbillonna. Russell lived in the cave for three days, and on 12 August 1884 he had the cave – as well as the mountain – blessed by a priest. In 1885 digging started on the second cave, then in 1886 on the third: the Grotte des Dames . On 5 December 1888 he asked the prefect of the Hautes-Pyrénées to grant the concession of the Vignemale to him. The annual rent was fixed at 1 franc over 99 years , and payment began in January 1889. When the Ossoue glacier covered his caves, three others were dug 800 m lower, at the base of the glacier : these are known as the Bellevue caves . He organized sumptuous and legendary banquets at these caves, receiving princes and notables there on Persian carpets and styling himself as the Comte des Monts . These caves lacked the grandeur of his higher perches, however, so for his seventh and final cave – Le Paradis – he had a spot 18 m below the summit of the Vignemale dynamited to effect a suitable dwelling. It was here that he celebrated his 'silver wedding': the sixty years that had passed since his first ascent of the mountain. He made his thirty-third and final ascent of the Vignemale on 8 August 1904. Pic Russell in the Maladeta massif is named after him; he made the first ascent in 1865. On his death in Biarritz in 1909 he was buried at the cemetery in Pau .First ascents The following is a selection of Russell's first ascents in the Pyrenees. Names of companions are given; otherwise the ascents were undertaken alone. Pic d'Ardiden, 2988 m, 1858 Lustou, 3023 m, 1864 Pic Carlit , 2921 m, 1864 Pic des Gourgs Blancs, 3129 m, with J. Haurillon, 1864 Pico de Coronas, 3293 m, with a porter, 1864 Cilindro de Marboré , 3,328 m, with Hippolyte Passet, 1864 Pic Russell, 3205 m, with C. Packe, 1865 Marboré, 3248 m, with Hippolyte Passet, 24 September 1865 Pena del Infierno Ctl., 3082 m, with Sarettes, 20 June 1867 Pico Royo, 3121 m, with Haurillon, 1868 Pic d'Albe, 3107 m, with Haurillon, July 1868 Grande Fache 3005 m, with Latour, August 1874 Gabiétous Or., 3031 m, with C. Passet, September 1874 Garmo Negro, 3051 m, with Sarettes, Pablo Belio, 23 June 1876 Pic Occ. de la Cascade, 3095 m, with C. Passet 1877 2e Pic Occ. de la Maladeta, 3220 m, with C. Passet, 25 August 1877 Eriste S, 3045 m, 17 July 1878 Grand Eriste, 3053 m, with F. Barrau, 17 July 1878 Robiñera, 3003 m, with C. Passet, 13 August 1878 Punta del Sabre, 3136 m, with C. Passet, Vincent Grassy, 10 September 1878 Petit Astazou 3012 m, with C. Passet, 21 July 1879 Punta de Lliterola, 3132 m, with C. Passet, 30 July 1879 Grand Quayrat, 3060 m, with Henri Reboul Peytier, Hossard C. Passet, 1 August 1879 Tuca de Mulleres , 3010 m, with F. Barrau, B. Courrèges, 5 August 1879 Pic d'Aragüells, 3037 m, with F. Barrau, 10 August 1880 Pico del Medio, 3346 m, with Firmin Barrau, Célestin Passet, 12 July 1881 Pic Occ. de Clarabide, 3020 m, 6 July 1882 Pic Or. de Clarabide, 3012 m, with F. Barrau, C. Passet, 6 July 1882 Diente de Alba, 3136 m, with Barthélémy Courrèges, 31 August 1882 Grand Pic de Tapou, 3150 m, with Haurine, Pierre Pujo, 1 August 1883 Pic du Milieu de Tapou, 3130 m, with Haurine, Pierre Pujo, 1 August 1883 Pic des Pavots, 3121 m, with Pierre Barrau, André Subra, 22 June 1885
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