Readers will by now be familiar with a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/07/noel-symington-and-night-climbers-of.html"Noel Symington/a, author of The Night Climbers of Cambridge and Mosleyite blot on the escutcheon of the Market Harborough soup dynasty.br /br /a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kenya"Wikipedia/a reveals that he also put his climbing skills to good use in Africa:br /blockquoteIn February [1938] Miss C Carol and Mtu Muthara became the first woman and African respectively to ascend Nelion, in an expedition with Noel Symington./blockquoteNelion is the second highest peak of Mount Kenya.br /br /My Googling also turned up a a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4n479StHgVsCamp;pg=PA52amp;lpg=PA52amp;dq=noel+symington+mcamp;source=blamp;ots=o8Grt14wQ6amp;sig=xDtukQGUuVCuq2f5_GcB0YVYcVgamp;hl=enamp;ei=nqN4Svy8Dt_ajQetrayoBgamp;sa=Xamp;oi=book_resultamp;ct=resultamp;resnum=1#v=onepageamp;q=noel%20symington%20mcamp;f=false"Captain Noel Symington/a who won the MC in the Far East during World War II. This got me excited, but he turns out to be Noel Mallam Symington , an Australian, and nothing to do with my Noel Howard Symington.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-8771473565534268074?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div
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