He also set a speed climbing record up Mount Shasta.
He studied to be a teacher, graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1911. He spent many summers traveling around the Sierra Nevada, bagging first ascents. He often went with the Sierra Club High Trips.
He became principal of the high school of Independence, California in 1924, but resigned under pressure in 1927 after using a pistol to defend the school against vandalism. He subsequently spent his winters as caretakers of the local lodges, including Glacier Lodge on Big Pine Creek.
Clyde was also known for discovering Pete Starr's body on the Minarets, in 1933, after all other searchers gave up. Clyde buried Starr in situ.
Norman Clyde still guided parties into the Sierra into the 1960s, when he was in his seventies.
Norman Clyde Peak (on the Palisade Crest) was named after him. His ashes may have been scattered on this peak.
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect.
Foster was born in Manchester and educated at the University of Manchester and at Yale University.
Norman Foster is the second UK architect to win the Stirling Prize twice: once for the American Hangar at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 1998 and again for 30 St Mary Axe in 2004.
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