Miles George C.

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Biografie:
George C. Miles
George Miles was known to few British members of the A.C. In his own sphere as numismatist, epigrapher and linguist (Turkish, Arabic, Persian. French, German and Greek) he won international renown. He well merited his obituary in The Times, in which his devotion to knowledge and his world-wide travels received appropriate mention, as did his service as Commander in the US Navy during the War. He was elected to the Alpine Club after climbing in the US and Canadian Rockies, in Persia and Turkey and on his own New England mountains, notably the granite faces of Mount Katahdin in Maine, where he first ventured with our late member C. F. Gates (see AJ 61 194). Above all he was the best of companions to young or old, on mountains, on the sea or round the hearth.
Douglas Busk
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 82, 1977, Seite 272


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1976