Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe (6 July 1900 – 27 June 1949), was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in the Alps as well as in the Himalayas, where he identified a region that he named the "Valley of Flowers", now a protected park. His ascents include two new routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc, Kamet, and attempts on Kangchenjunga and Mount Everest in the 1930s.[1] It was said that he had a tendency for irascibility, something some of his mountaineering contemporaries said "decreased with altitude".[2]
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^George Band (2003). Everest: The Official History. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as FrankSmythe or F. S. Smythe (6 July 1900 – 27 June 1949), was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and...
climb Kamet began in 1855, the first ascent was not made until 1931 by FrankSmythe, Eric Shipton, R.L. Holdsworth, Dr Raymond Greene, the expedition's doctor...
Jeremy Brett in which Hyde played Culverton Smith and Midsomer Murders as FrankSmythe-Webster. In 2007, Hyde played Dr. Dorn in Chekhov's The Seagull and the...
Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC (/ˈsmaɪθ/; February 1, 1895 – November 18, 1980) was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and...
1985), New Zealand actress FrankSmythe (1900–1949), British mountaineer, author, photographer, and botanist George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford (1818–1857)...
opposite the cross mark. In 1937, FrankSmythe wrote a letter to Edward Norton in reply to Norton's approbation of Smythe's book Camp Six, an account of the...
Journal. 49. Retrieved 9 January 2024. Horrell, Mark (4 December 2013). "FrankSmythe is more interesting than George Mallory". markhorrell.com. Retrieved...
and Banke Kund glacier. Mana Peak was first climbed solo in 1937 by FrankSmythe during his famous Valley of Flowers expedition. Capt S. P. Malik (1993)...
comprising the German Uli Wieland, Austrian Erwin Schneider and Englishman FrankSmythe who attempted to climb Kangchenjunga. They failed because of poor weather...
maps, routes and rare historical photographs, including those taken by FrankSmythe.) "Caledonian Mercury, 17 November 2010". Archived from the original...
Francis Smythe may refer to: FrankSmythe (Francis Sydney Smythe, 1900–1949), English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist Francis Smythe (priest)...
little known to the outside world due to its inaccessibility. In 1931, Frank S. Smythe, Eric Shipton and R. L. Holdsworth, all British mountaineers, lost...
Together with Wyn-Harris, he climbed the twin peaks of Mount Kenya. With FrankSmythe, Shipton was amongst the first climbers to stand on the summit of Kamet...
defeated by a forty-foot ice wall at around 22,700 ft which had stretched FrankSmythe to his limit in 1933. On his return the Sherpas pleaded with him to return...
those who had been on the 1924 attempt. The full British complement was FrankSmythe, Eric Shipton, Jack Longland, Eugene Birnie, Percy Wyn-Harris, Edward...
Harry Graham. Additional music by Stephen Jones. P: Herbert Bryan; SD: FrankSmythe; MD: Thomas Tunbridge; DD: Jack Buchanan. "London Musicals 1920-1924:...
070 ft) and 11.2 km north lies Mana Peak 7,272 metres (23,858 ft). In 1937 FrankSmythe climbed Nilgiri Parbat, completing the first ascent. In 1962 An Indian...
ISBN 9788173870972. The peak of Kamet was attempted several times and finally in 1931 FrankSmythe and Eric Shipton reached the summit along with some others. R.L. Holdsworth...
1931 he joined an expedition to Mount Kamet in the Himalayas led by FrankSmythe. All the climbers reached the summit at over 25,000 feet, then the highest...
Journal. 49. Retrieved 9 January 2024. Horrell, Mark (4 December 2013). "FrankSmythe is more interesting than George Mallory". markhorrell.com. Retrieved...
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