Frank Adams on Summit of the Grand Teton after an icy ascent of the Exum Ridge with Mike Fain photo:MF
Frank
Adams on Summit of the
Grand Teton after an icy ascent of the Exum Ridge with Mike
Fain
photo:MF
Frank Adams on the summit of
Moran
(Teewinot, Owen, Grand background) after doing the CMC route with Pete
Gardiner
photo:PG
FRANK ADAMS John Frank
Adams obtained his
first degree in Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1952 and
visited the U.C. as a Research Associate in 1957-58 on a Commonwealth
Scholarship. He climbed with us several times at Devils Lake. I climbed
the CMC route on Moran (GTNP) with Frank, descending via Skillet
Glacier. Mike Fain climbed the Grand Teton with Frank.
Frank brought us a characteristically British approach to climbing:
less emphasis on technology, more on developed human abilities. His
favorite rockclimbing footgear, for example, was a pair of thin tennis
sneakers; and he had little inclination to protect leads with hardware,
preferring to keep the difficulty of the lead
well within his ability.
Frank died in 1989 at the age of 59, at Near Brampton,
Huntingdonshire,
England.
There is a short bio here:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Adams_Frank.html