M.D.
With his wife, a pioneer of bicycle touring:
- 1892-1896, Europe & Algeria
- 1897-1899, Ceylon, Java, & India
- 1898-1912, 8 expeditions in the Himalayan Mountains
Together, they were also famous early mountain-climbers. They made ascents of peaks in the Himalayas of over 18,000 feet. In 1906, they were the first to reach the summit of Nun Kun's Pinnacle Peak - 22,736 feet.
Co-authors of books on their travels:
- "Algerian Memories: A Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara", 1895
- "Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia", 1897
- "In the Ice World of Himalaya", 1900
- "Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-Wheel Among the Temples and People of the Indian Plain", 1904
- "Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh", 1908
- "Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun", 1909
- "The Call of the Snowy Hispar", 1910
- "Two Summers in the Ice Wilds of Eastern Karakoram", 1917
Source of his parents: Page 12 - "Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University" (1937-1938)
M.D.
With his wife, a pioneer of bicycle touring:
- 1892-1896, Europe & Algeria
- 1897-1899, Ceylon, Java, & India
- 1898-1912, 8 expeditions in the Himalayan Mountains
Together, they were also famous early mountain-climbers. They made ascents of peaks in the Himalayas of over 18,000 feet. In 1906, they were the first to reach the summit of Nun Kun's Pinnacle Peak - 22,736 feet.
Co-authors of books on their travels:
- "Algerian Memories: A Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara", 1895
- "Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia", 1897
- "In the Ice World of Himalaya", 1900
- "Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-Wheel Among the Temples and People of the Indian Plain", 1904
- "Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh", 1908
- "Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun", 1909
- "The Call of the Snowy Hispar", 1910
- "Two Summers in the Ice Wilds of Eastern Karakoram", 1917
Source of his parents: Page 12 - "Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University" (1937-1938)
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