Show career of duke of the Abru aal the duke of the abruzzi command or in clifert ot of italy navy comes of 0 a famous fighting house bouse tho the house ot of savoy he Is forty two years old and ts is mainly known to the world as aa an intrepid explorer particularly a as s a mountaineer in 1897 he ascended ase ended the t b e frozen heft heights lits of mount miss ellas in alaska a teat feat it Is said eald never theretofore performed two years later came hla his polar expedition in which he made a point farther north than nabben naamen bad reached this was followed by mountaineering feats in africa and among the himalayas in early boyhood the duke showed a fondness for the sea and entered the italian navy at the minimum age he was educated at the naval school at leghorn and bar had bad a most successful career as an officer of the fleet having risen in the service by his own merits and industry |