Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn (18 April 1888 – 2 June 1974) was a skier, mountaineer and writer. He was knighted for "services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss...
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Hugh Kingsmill (redirect from H. K. Lunn)
British writer and journalist. The writers Arnold Lunn and Brian Lunn were his brothers. Hugh Kingsmill Lunn was born at Torrington Square, Bloomsbury...
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that would become Lunn Poly, having strong religious beliefs which were in conflict with his talent as a businessman. Arnold Lunn and Hugh Kingsmill...
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John Fry (January 22, 1930 – January 24, 2020) invented the Nations Cup of alpine ski racing by which the relative strengths of the world's national ski...
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Oxford University Mountaineering Club (OUMC) was founded in 1909 by Arnold Lunn, then a Balliol undergraduate; he did not earn a degree. The club has...
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Lunn is a surname, and may refer to: Agnes Cathinka Wilhelmine Lunn (1850–1941), Danish artist Arnold Lunn (1888–1974), British mountaineer Bert Lunn...
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Lunn's marriage to Mary Ethel Moore, the daughter of a canon, produced four children: alpine skiing pioneer Arnold Lunn, writers Hugh Kingsmill Lunn and...
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he was noted for his resourceful use of telephone tapping. The son of Arnold Lunn and Mabel Stafford Northcote (1889-1959), granddaughter of the 1st Earl...
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biologists Arnold Luhaäär (1905–1965), an Estonian weightlifter Arnold Lunn (1888–1974), an English skier, mountaineer and writer Arnold Majewski (1892–1942)...
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January 1921. The championships were organised by Sir Arnold Lunn on behalf of the Ski Club. Sir Arnold Lunn was a central figure in this period of the Ski Club's...
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of the Alps region. The rules for the modern slalom were developed by Arnold Lunn in 1922 for the British National Ski Championships, and adopted for alpine...
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slopes; for some years trains were the earliest ski-lifts in the area. Arnold Lunn used the natural terrain of the mountains for the courses; the downhill...
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developing winter sports. In 1924, the Kandahar Ski Club was set up by Sir Arnold Lunn (whose statue stands outside the rail station) and eight other British...
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The Kandahar Ski Club was founded by Arnold Lunn and other British skiers on 30 January 1924 in Mürren, Switzerland. The club was founded as a ski racing...
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to athletocracy, the preference of coaches towards elite athletes, as Arnold Lunn condemned the "school tradition of muscle worship" his novel The Harrovians...
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founded in 1923, at the suggestion of Arnold Lunn, by Doreen Elliott, Mrs Duncan Harvey and Lunn's wife, (Lady) Mabel Lunn. It was the first club for women...
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Pass in Norway on skis in 1880. Other pioneers include Adolfo Kind, Arnold Lunn, Ottorino Mezzalama, Patrick Vallençant, and Kilian Jornet Burgada. Ski...
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competitive sport and holiday industry. Like his near contemporary, Sir Arnold Lunn, he matched his adventurism on the slopes and knowledge of the Alpine...
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Bishop Robert Barron, G. K. Chesterton, Ronald Knox, Taylor Marshall, Arnold Lunn, Karl Keating, Michael Voris, Peter Kreeft, Frank Sheed, Dr. Scott Hahn...
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1924: First ski ascent and descent via the Eiger glacier by Englishman Arnold Lunn and the Swiss Fritz Amacher, Walter Amstutz, and Willy Richardet. 1932:...
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Ramblers' Club were interested in the activities of Sir Henry Lunn and his son Sir Arnold Lunn. After the war the club was re-founded in 1920 in Curzon Street...
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(London, 1911) G. T. Warner, Harrow in Prose and Verse (London, 1913) Arnold Lunn, The Harrovians (London, 1913) ISBN 1-4538-0948-1 PHM Bryant, Harrow...
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Täschhorn, which they had climbed two weeks earlier. On 18 June 1917, Arnold Lunn, a pioneer ski mountaineer, and Josef Knubel of St. Niklaus in the canton...
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particularly want to meet again. The term was coined by mountaineer Sir Arnold Lunn. It has not entered common use. Antiphrasis Autantonym Euphemism Geoffrey...
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an early ski pioneer and founder of modern Alpine skiing technique: Arnold Lunn described him as the "father of alpine skiing". He was the first ski...
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built into the mountainside. In 1909, the English brothers Walter and Arnold Lunn popularized skiing, curling and bobsledding at Lauterbrunnen. These winter...
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between Montgenevre (in France) and Claviere (in Italy). 1908: Sir Arnold Lunn founded the Alpine Ski Club 1908: The Kiandra Snow Shoe Club of Australia...
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in the Alps, p. 82 "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci" (Note 1060). Arnold Lunn, The Alps, p. 86 On July 14, 1775, Jean-Nicolas Couteran, Francois and...
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ISBN 0-8369-2161-5 Science and the Supernatural: Correspondence with Arnold Lunn (1935), Sheed & Ward, Inc. Fact and Faith (1934), Watts Thinker's Library...
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Her blog readership has increased significantly since her conversion. Arnold Lunn – skier, mountaineer, and writer; as an agnostic he wrote Roman Converts...
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