Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, born at Rochester on 12 April 1856 and known as Sir Martin Conway between 1895 and 1931. He took up mountain climbing in 1872 and was president of the Alpine Club from 1902 to 1904. In 1892 he made an ascent of a subsidiary summit of Baltoro Kangri in the Karakoram and claimed a world altitude record. In 1896 and 1897 he crossed Spitsbergen, and in 1898 he surveyed the Bolivian Andes, climbing Ancohuma and Illimani and stopping short of the summit of Aconcagua by 50 feet.
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