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...Died. Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn, 55, anthropologist, authority on Southwestern Indian culture, a director of the Army's massive study of Japan during World War II and from 1947 to 1954 of the West's largest private Russian-research center, at Harvard; of a heart attack; in Sante...
...First Your Hat . . ." Mountain Man Clyde took the long way around getting to be top climber in the Sierra. Son of a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, he graduated as a classics scholar from Pennsylvania's Geneva College, but in 1909 he was lured to California by the writings of Naturalist John Muir. Clyde put in a dozen restless years teaching school, then quit and took to the Sierra for good...
...Buzzing Sound." What is more, Clyde is a self-trained naturalist who contributes scientific reports to the California Academy of Sciences, a pathfinder who has saved stranded motorists by skiing through blizzards with food strapped to his broad back. He is so accurate with a slingshot that he rarely has to resort to his .22-cal. pistol to kill small game. He scoffs at the idea of riding an animal up a mountain: "I can carry a damn mule faster than he can carry...
...Clyde's record as a climber is monumental: he has topped 36 peaks in 36 days, made at least 200 first ascents, and allows with pebble-scuffing modesty that he has scaled the 14,495-ft. Mount Whitney "about 50 times, anyway." Sums up a mountaineering colleague: "Clyde has brought down more corpses, found more airplane wrecks, and climbed more peaks than any other man in the Sierra...
When search parties set out after a lost climber, Clyde usually hunts by himself, preferring to rely on his own knowledge of his mountains. In the early '30s, he started after a lost lawyer by guessing that he would have headed for the highest minaret in the area. Coming upon a pile of rocks of the sort climbers erect as trail markers, Clyde found fresh grass underneath. Clyde reasoned that the missing lawyer had recently built the pile, had probably already climbed and descended the highest minaret. "Then I figured he would try the second-highest minaret," recalls Clyde...