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Francis Farquhar was an active Sierra Club leader and served as its president 1933-1935 and 1948-1949. He served as Sierra Club Bulletin editor from 1926 to 1946, when that publication was one of the leading mountaineering journals in the world. He served in other club offices as a director from 1924 to 1951. Farquhar was a mountaineer who invited Robert L. M. Underhill to introduce proper use of modern Alpine rope techniques to Sierra Club members on an annual club High Trip in 1931. He made multiple first ascents. On August 26, 1921, he completed the first ascent of Middle Palisade by the south-west chute with Ansel Hall.
Farquhar is the author of several books and wrote the foreword for other books. He is best known for his book History of the Sierra Nevada (1946), which is still in print. He had terms as president of the California Academy of Sciences, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the California Historical Society.
In 1957 and 1958, Farquhar was editor of the American Alpine Journal published by the American Alpine Club.
Since 1970, the Sierra Club has given the Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Award in his honor.
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