Bradford Washburn, had died

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Bradford Washburn, the founder of the Museum of Science and an explorer who spent three-quarters of a century unlocking the secrets of such sites as Mount McKinley and Mount Everest, died Wednesday of heart failure. He was 96.


Mr. Washburn was an elite mountain climber and a renowned cartographer. He often said, however, that these were secondary pursuits. He'd be happy, he told the Globe in 2000, if his obituary were one sentence: "He built the Museum of Science."
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That dogged approach served him well both in completing climbs and creating maps and models, renderings that became signposts to generations of scientists and adventurers. In addition to his Alaska research, he created what many believe are the definitive maps of the Grand Canyon and the Presidential Range in New Hampshire.

In photography, Mr. Washburn married this profound sense of purpose with a sense of wonder. For his aerial images, he devised an elaborate process to capture the drama and the sweep of what he experienced. He would yank the side door off a single-engine plane and strap himself and his 53-pound Fairchild K-6 camera into position at the opening. At 20,000 feet with buffeting winds, finger-freezing temperatures, oxygen sucked through a bottle, and a vibrating and yawing fuselage, conditions were brutal.
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Much, Much More at: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/12/museum_of_science_founder_dies_at_96/

Thank you Mr Washburn!

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1. RI{ Mr. Washburn.