Gran, Tryggve

Tryggve Gran was born in Bergen, Norway on 20 January 1889. He entered the Norwegian naval Cadet College straight from school, but left before completing his training.

In 1910 Gran was introduced to Captain Robert Falcon Scott in Norway and volunteered to join the forthcoming British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (led by Scott), as ski instructor. From November 1911 to February 1912 during the absence of the polar party, Gran accompanied the geological expedition to the western mountains led by Griffith Taylor. In November 1912 Gran was a member of the search party with Charles Wright that discovered Scott's tent 11 miles from One Ton Depot. His final adventure before leaving Antarctica was an ascent of Mount Erebus with Raymond Priestley and Frederick Hooper in December 1912, an occasion which nearly ended in disaster when an unexpected eruption caused a shower of huge pumice blocks to fall around him.

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