H. Adams Carter

Hubert Adams "Ad" Carter (6 June 1914 – 1 April 1995) was an American mountaineer, language teacher and was editor of the American Alpine Journal for 35 years. Carter was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1914, and made his first ascent of Mount Washington (1,917 metres) at the age of five. He graduated from Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts in 1932 and from Harvard College in 1936. In 1934, Carter participated with Bradford Washburn in the first ascents of Mount Quincy Adams (4,150 m) and Mount Crillon (3,879 m) in Alaska. In 1936, he was a member of the British-American expedition that made the first ascent of Nanda Devi (7,816 m) in India, which remained the highest mountain ever climbed until 1950. Carter also became a member...