Quote of the day
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
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






