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Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Alan Hankinson
Alan Hankinson's biography of the British mountaineer, poet, and educator who lost a leg in World War I and returned to the Alps on a prosthetic. Young was the bridge between Victorian and modern mountaineering — his influence shaped a generation.
Mountains & Climbing
Biography
Alps & Europe
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Published
1996
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