Land surveyors in the state of New Hampshire are a hardy lot. We have plenty of rough terrain to cover and often in freezing weather conditions. Add some bugs, wildlife, angry neighbors, some scrapes, bruises, and we tend to keep pretty busy with our share of survey work.

Intrigue is not necessarily a part of our state’s normal stock-in-trade. However, the life of the late, great land surveyor and mountaineer, William Pendleton House, NH LLS #53, is one of those rare tales that has it all.