# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-smythe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:49:06.244Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-smythe"
name: "Frank Smythe"
slug: "frank-smythe"
description: "Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe, was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in the Alps as well as 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, Kamet, and attempts on Kangchenjunga and Mount Everest in the 1930s. It was said that he had a tendency for irascibility, something some of his mountaineering contemporaries said \"decreased with altitude\"."
tagline: "British mountaineer, botanist, author and photographer (1900-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/F_S_Smythe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1900-07-06"
deathDate: "1949-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5776173285198557
  historical:           6.164977333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Smythe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Smythe"
    title: "Frank Smythe"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Smythe"
    title: "Frank Smythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Smythe"
    title: "Frank Smythe"
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  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A5"
    title: "फ्रेंक स्मिथ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Smythe"
    title: "Frank Smythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Smythe"
    title: "Frank Smythe"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q961983"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump