Background
LONGSTAFF, Tom George was born on January 15, 1875. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel LongstafF of Wimbledon and Mary L., daughter of late Thos. W. Sawyer of Southampton.
LONGSTAFF, Tom George was born on January 15, 1875. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel LongstafF of Wimbledon and Mary L., daughter of late Thos. W. Sawyer of Southampton.
Eton; Christ Church, Oxford. St. Thomas’s Hospital. Master of Arts; Doctor of Medicine.
Has climbed in the Alps, Caucasus, Himalaya, and Rocky Mountains. Ac companied the Government Political Mission to Western Tibet, 1905. Ascended Trisul in Garliwal Himalaya, 23,406 feet, according to maps of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, 1907.
Awarded the “ Gill Memorial,” by R.G.S. for journeys in Himalaya and Tibet, 1908. First European to cross Saltoro Pass, 18,200 feet. Surveyed 45 miles of the Siachen Glacier, and discovered the lofty peaks of Teram Kangri, 1909. Oxfordshire; Fellow Royal Society of Medicine; F. (formerly on Council) R.G.S.
Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. Fellow of the Zoological Society. Clubs: New University, Alpine, Authors’.
Climbing, travelling, shooting.