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Douglas Freshfield

British explorer
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Douglas William Freshfield
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April 27, 1845, London, England
Died:
February 9, 1934, Forest Row, Sussex (aged 88)
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Douglas Freshfield (born April 27, 1845, London, England—died February 9, 1934, Forest Row, Sussex) was a British mountaineer, explorer, geographer, and author who advocated the recognition of geography as an independent discipline in English universities (from 1884). On an expedition to the central Caucasus Mountains (1868), Freshfield made the first ascent of Mt. Elbrus (18,510 feet [5,642 metres]), the highest peak in the range and in Russia west of the Ural Mountains. In 1899 he led an expedition that circumnavigated the Himalayan mountain Kanchenjunga (28,169 feet [8,586 metres]), and in 1905 he made a failed attempt to climb the Ruwenzori ...(100 of 136 words)

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