Young, Geoffrey Winthrop

Young, Geoffrey Winthrop,

1876–1958, English writer, an authority on mountaineering. He was educated at Cambridge and later studied in Switzerland and France. Before 1914 he made an impressive record of new and difficult ascents in the Alps. In World War I he commanded British ambulance units in Belgium, France, and Italy and was several times decorated. Though he lost a leg, he continued mountain climbing. He wrote Mountain Craft (1920, 7th ed. 1949). He also wrote poetry.

Bibliography

See his autobiography, On High Hills (1927), and The Grace of Forgetting (1953).

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释义	Young, Geoffrey Winthrop Young, Geoffrey Winthrop, 1876–1958, English writer, an authority on mountaineering. He was educated at Cambridge and later studied in Switzerland and France. Before 1914 he made an impressive record of new and difficult ascents in the Alps. In World War I he commanded British ambulance units in Belgium, France, and Italy and was several times decorated. Though he lost a leg, he continued mountain climbing. He wrote Mountain Craft (1920, 7th ed. 1949). He also wrote poetry. Bibliography See his autobiography, On High Hills (1927), and The Grace of Forgetting (1953).
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