hinchliff died suddenly at aix-les-bains, france, on 8 may 1882. a monument to him stands on the north-west side of the riffelalp resort in switzerland. his obituary in the "alpine journal" said he had had "a kind of genius for friendship", while the "proceedings of the royal geographical society" noted that "the society loses a member who, if not an explorer, was an indefatigable traveller". in 1910 a climbing anthology called him "one of the first to penetrate the higher solitudes of the world of ice and snow".