Talk:Rudolf Kauschka

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Hi, I'm author of the czech article cs:Rudolf Kauschka and I'm looking into this english version to compare them and I have couple questions: --EnJx 11:31, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Putting together Matterhorn, Mt. Blanc, Dolomites and Lusatian and Jizera mountains isn't very good. Lusatian and Jizera mountains are very small hills with small rocks and Kauschka's main "job" was trying to find those stones and climb on them. Sort of preparation for the real mountains (Alps).
 * What are the "Czechoslovakian Alps"? Where is it?
 * "Kauschka played a role in establishing Harrachov, and a hotel in Sněžka-Śnieżka along the Czech-Polish border in the Karkonosze Mountain range." Is there any citation??? Harrachov village existend a long time ago Kauschka. Is there any citation about the hotel on Snezka in Krakonose? Actually I think his role was in establishing one challet in Alps.
 * The external link named "Park on mountain peak named for Kauschka" is about one climbing route on couple stones on one ridge in Jizera mountains. Actually none of these stones doesn't have Kauschka's name, neither that route.

Here I add simple translation from Rudolf Kauschka, if you correct mistakes in my english, you can use it. ( I also added some notes. )

Rudolf Kauschka (2. october 1883, Fukov – 2. april 1960, Kempten, Germany) was a (I think he was more german than czech, around 1900 this area was speaking mostly german and after ww2 he had to leave czechoslovakia) sportsman, tourist, climber/mountaineer (in those times didn't exist difference between rock climbers and mountaineers, rocks were preparation for mountains) and also the writer.

Life

He was born in 1883 in town Fukov (in german Fugau) which doesn't exists nowadays. Later (cca 1895) his family moved into Bily Potok. In 1904 he finished studies and became "custom officer" like his father. Since then he made a lot of trips and climbs in Jizera mountains and surroundings. Since 1906 he was a member of Liberec (in german Reichenberg) section of Alpenverein and he made trips to Alps. During the WW1 he served as porucik of the 1. rota of mountain guides in Ortler area. Since 1920 he with his friends every year visited the Lasörling area in East Tyrol, where he "played a role" in building the New Liberec Chalet? (Neue Reichenberger Hütte in german) which was opened in 1926. Since 1919 he made many "first ascents" in Jizera mountains. In the year 1924 he made a book "Wandern und Klettern". After the WW2 he had to leave Czechoslovakia (above all Jizera mountains), in the 1946 (1947?) he arrived to Kempten where he died in 1960.

Sport

As a sportsman he is known as a ludge europe champion in Liberec 1914. (Actually I don't think it was difficult to become europe ludge champion in 1914, especially in his "hometown", but...) In 1928 he was the second.

Tourist

His tourist achievements were also of a sporting and alpinist kind.

One day he started with friends at 2 am from Liberec to walk across Jizera mountains to Snezka in Krkonose mountains and at 7 pm (so after 17 hours) they were back in Harrachov. And it is told they had a rest for two hours on the top of Snezka. (I read some story about two boys who had problem to do it in cca 30 hours, Kauschka had to be bloody fast. Another story says that his friends gave up after pasing Jizera mountains and in Krkonose Kaushka walked/ran alone.)

In 1922 he and his friends summited 12 times the Jested (Jeschken in german) during one day (more exactly during 23 hours from 7 pm one day until 5:45 pm the second day). During ths day they achieved the altitude (?) more than 5000 m and used more than 20 different footpaths.

Ascents

Since 1904 Kaschka did a lot of climbing ascents, beginning Jizera mountains (the first ascent on Zvon in 1921 famous local rock ), later in Lusatian and Zitauer mountains, Bohemian Paradise (the first ascent on Draci zub in 1906) and Saxon Switzerland (Blocksstockes). He was also in Alps, in 1907 in Dolomiten (Vajolet towers solo without rope), in 1908 Ortler (Königspitze), 1928 Wallis Alps (Matterhorn, Mont Blanc). (Blanc isn't in Wallis but doesn't mind)

In Jizera mountains on his memory there is named a one difficulty accessible tower "Kauschkova vez". In Alps in 1959 there was after him named a summit 2903 m high.

Kauska's son Manfred did in 1937 together with friends the first ascent on Kobyla in Prihrazy. (famous route on famous sandstone tower, perhaps more famous than Zvon in Jizera mountains)

--EnJx 17:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)