AALL – Christian H, 95,

AALL – Christian H, 95,
formerly of Princeton, passed away on October 5, 2008, in Honolulu, Hawaii. For more than 25 years, he and his wife lived half the year in Honolulu, and half the year in Combloux in the French Alps. He was born in Oslo, Norway, received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Grenoble in France, and served in the Royal Norwegian Army in the Resistance Movement and then in England. While at Grenoble, he was French student ski champion four years in a row and won the French jumping championship in Montgenevre in 1933.
He moved to the United States in 1947, with his family, to join Monsanto Chemical  and later at American Metals Climax in New York City. On his retirement, travel, mountain climbing, and collecting Hawaiian stamps and English cow creamers, introduced to him by P.G. Wodehouse, became his passions. His 70th birthday present to himself was to climb the 21,247 foor Mount Mera in the Himalalayas and on his 80th birthday he reached the summit of Mont Blane (having done it twice previously). In 1990, he published his lively autobiography Footprints in the sand. His first wife, Ruth B. Perkins of Princeton, survives him. His second wife Sally Sample ELy Aall predeceased him. He will be deeply missed by his four children, Cecilia Mathews of Skillman, Mea Kaemmerlen of Plainsboro, Pamela McPherson of Washington, Dc and CHristian Aall, of Deer Mountain, UT and their spouses, his seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren.