• 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...
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    climb Kamet began in 1855, the first ascent was not made until 1931 by Frank Smythe, Eric Shipton, R.L. Holdsworth, Raymond Greene, the expedition's doctor...
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  • 1985), New Zealand actress Frank Smythe (1900–1949), British mountaineer, author, photographer, and botanist George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford (1818–1857)...
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    Jeremy Brett in which Hyde played Culverton Smith and Midsomer Murders as Frank Smythe-Webster. In 2007, Hyde played Dr. Dorn in Chekhov's The Seagull and the...
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    hands free to hold the rope". In 1937, Frank Smythe wrote to Edward Norton in reply to Norton's approbation of Smythe's book Camp Six, an account of the 1933...
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  • and Banke Kund glacier. Mana Peak was first climbed solo in 1937 by Frank Smythe during his famous Valley of Flowers expedition. Capt S. P. Malik (1993)...
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    the Hindu pilgrimage site of Badrinath, only 9 km (6 mi) to the east. Frank Smythe described the peak as "second only to Siniolchu in Himalayan beauty."...
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    maps, routes and rare historical photographs, including those taken by Frank Smythe.) "Caledonian Mercury, 17 November 2010". Archived from the original...
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  • point as Norton; first Lawrence Wager and Percy Wyn-Harris, and later Frank Smythe, but there was no advance on Norton's record. While there would be no...
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  • (12 m) ice wall at around 22,700 feet (6,900 m) which had stretched Frank Smythe to his limit in 1933. On his return the Sherpas pleaded with him to return...
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