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Notable climbers and mountaineers

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Edward Whymper (1840 - 1911)
Whymper was born in London on April 27, 1840 to Josiah Wood Whymper and Elizabeth Claridge being the second of eleven children. He was trained to be a wood-engraver at an early age. In 1860, he made ex...
John Percy Farrar (1857 - 1929)
Captain John Percy Farrar DSO (25 December 1857 – 18 February 1929), also known as Percy Farrar and as J. P. Farrar, was an English soldier and mountaineer. He was President of the Alpine Club from 1...
William Lowell Putnam, III (1924 - 2014)
William Lowell Putnam III was an alpinist, author and retired broadcasting executive. He was Trustee Emeritus of the Lowell Observatory, a private astronomical research facility. He was the son of poli...
Dora Keen (1871 - 1963)
Dora Keen (1871–1963) was an American traveler and Alpinist, also a social and educational worker. Early life She was born in Philadelphia, a daughter of the surgeon William Williams Keen. After ...
Oliver Eaton Cromwell, Jr. (1892 - 1987)
A wonderful person - DLA Member of the 1939 K2 expedition Mount Cromwell is a mountain located in the Sunwapta River Valley of Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada. Cromwell lines two km nort...