Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe, was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist who lived from 6 July 1900 to 27 June 1949. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in the Alps and in the Himalayas, where he identified a region that he named the Valley of Flowers, now a protected park. His ascents include two new routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc and Kamet, and he made attempts on Kangchenjunga and Mount Everest in the 1930s.
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