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Biografie:
Walter Abbott Wood (1908-1993)
Walter Wood died at West Palm Beach, Florida, after a long illness. He had been President of the American Alpine Club, the American Geographical Society and the Explorers Club of New York. He was a notable surveyor of mountain country and, while training in Switzerland, had obtained his Alpine guide's diploma enabling him to wear the Bergführer badge of the SAC. After a number of seasons in the Alps, his first expedition was in 1929 on a mapping mission to the Kashmir-Tibet border.
From the thirties onwards, a private income enabled Wood to mount his own expeditions. These included the ascent of Mt Steele in 1935, and Mt Vancouver in 1949. Although Wood himself did not reach the summit of the latter, one of the four who did was Noel Odell. Whilst Wood was descending from the first ascent of Mt Hubbard in 1951, he received news that his wife and daughter had disappeared without trace whilst flying with the bush pilot Maurice King in the St Elias mountains.
From 1949 onwards, Walter Wood organised research projects in the Alaska/Yukon mountains, directing a programme of survey, geology, glaciology and mountaineering. In the early sixties, these programmes were extended to include a biological element which gave the Canadian Government much useful information for establishing the Kluane National Park.
Geoffrey Templeman
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 99, 1994, Seite 328


Geboren am:
1908
Gestorben am:
1993