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2 Notable deaths
by mountaineering accident
Jacques Herbrand
French mathematician.
Born February 12th, 1908 in Paris. [ref]
Died July 27th, 1931 at 23 years old in Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans (mountaineering accident). [ref]
Francis Maitland Balfour
British biologist (1851–1882).
Born November 10th, 1851 in Edinburgh.
Died July 19th, 1882 at 30 years old in Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey (mountaineering accident).
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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir