Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Arnold Lunn

Born: April 18, 1888
Died: June 2, 1974 (aged 86)
Bio: Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn was a skier, mountaineer and writer. He was knighted for "services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations" in 1952.
Known for:
- The Harrovians (1913)
- Christian counter-attack (1969)
- Alpine ski-ing at all heights and seasons (1921)
- A Saint in the Slave Trade: Peter Claver (1581-1654) (1935)
- The Alps






