Today I am pleased to join the many friends of Fritz H. Wiessner in paying tribute to a great American mountaineer and a New Englander by adoption. who has been doing a great deal in his own way to foster understanding between mountain climbers in the United States and in Europe. Fritz Wiessner. one of the most brilliant climbers the world has produced. immigrated to the United States from his native Dresden in the late 1920s. He brought with him rockclimbing skills that were virtually unknown in the United States. and. what is more important. an unbounded enthusiasm. He instilled in a small group of American sportsmen a love for this sport which they in turn propagated among others.
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