The hut was built by the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) in 1965 as a project proposed and largely overseen by noted author and alpinist William Lowell Putnam III, who later became president of the American Alpine Club for several years and a long-term board member.
(This expedition was somewhat unusual for the era in including a female member.) William Putnam was a member of the expedition but did not make the summit.
The company was founded by William Lowell Putnam III, who launched the company's first television station, WWLP, on March 17, 1953.
He is also sole trustee of the Lowell Observatory, a private astronomical research facility; the son of Roger Putnam and a member of the once-prominent Lowell family of Massachusetts.
William Lowell Putnam III (born 1924) alpinist, author and broadcasting executive
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