Miles Smeeton

Miles Smeeton was born in Yorkshire in 1906, served as a career army officer, and with his wife Beryl attempted Tirich Mir in the Himalaya with Tenzing Norgay in 1939. After the war the couple bought the yacht Tzu Hang and sailed the world, including famous attempts to round Cape Horn told in Once Is Enough. He wrote nine books, co-founded the Cochrane Ecological Institute in Alberta, and died in 1988.