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Monty AlfordMontague Ewart Alford was born in 1923 in Cornwall, England. He was educated at Plymouth Technical College and apprenticed as an aeronautical tool and die designer from 1940 to 1944 taking additional night courses in surveying. Monty immigrated to Caada in 1948. His career in Canada began in 1949 as a survey party chief for Northwest Highway System (Alaska Highway and Atlin Road) and concluded in 1986 after thirty-five years of federal government service in water surveying and research including twenty-five years as Officer in Charge of the Water Survey of Canada office in Whitehorse, Yukon. By vocation a federal water surveyor, but by avocation a wilderness and mountain guide, Monty Alford has spent more than sixty years pursuing mountaineering activities. Mountaineering and expeditions: 1950: (March to December) 4,200-mile trans-continental canoe expedition from British Columbia to Gulf of Mexico. 1961: Member, American expedition to make 22nd ascent of Mount McKinley, Alaska. 1964: Member, American expedition to make first ascent of Mount Newton. 1965: Guide to National Film Board of Canada party filming first ascent of Mount Kennedy by the late Robert F. Kennedy. 1965: Member, National Geographic Society expedition mapping the Hubbard massif. 1967: Co-leader, Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition (International Team) making ascent of the south peak of Mount Vancouver as a part of Canada's centennial celebration. 1967-68: (October to January) Member, Yale University and A Read More Read Less
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