Glyn Carr

14 March 14 1908 – 19 February 2005

Frank Showell Styles was a Welsh writer and mountaineer. He wrote mystery novels under pen-name of Glyn Carr. Styles was born in Four Oaks, Warwickshire, England in 1908 and died at his long-time home in Wales in 2005. He did his first mountain trek at the age of three and spent the rest of his life scrambling over rocks, snow, ice, and mountains. During World War II Styles used his shore leave from the Royal Navy to pioneer new ascents in North Africa and Malta. After he was discharged, Styles led two exploring and climbing expeditions to the Lyngen Peninsula, 250 miles from the Arctic Cir