Ushba and Little Ushba, Shikildi Glacier (Central Caucasus)

A successful book publisher, Herman Woolley was an accomplished football player and boxer who did not take up mountaineering in earnest until he was forty. After a brief apprenticeship in the Alps, he went to the Caucasus and made several first ascents during the 1880s and '90s, later contributing his accounts and photographs to Douglas Freshfield's monumental work, The Exploration of the Caucasus (London, 1896). He served as a president of the Alpine Club and climbed extensively with Norman Collie (for whom see lot 280) who named a peak in the Canadian Rockies for his friend.