Hettie Dyhrenfurth

Hettie Dyhrenfurth
Born
Harriet Pauline Heymann

(1892-11-16)16 November 1892
Breslau, German Empire
Died28 October 1972(1972-10-28) (aged 79)
California, United States
NationalityGerman, Swiss
Known forMountaineering

Hettie Dyhrenfurth (16 November – 28 October 1972) was a German-Swiss mountaineer. She took part in two major expeditions to the Himalayas in 1930 and 1934. Hettie and her husband Günter Dyhrenfurth won the Olympic alpinism gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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