Ann Brooks Carter94, died on December 28, 2011 in her apartment at Kendal at Hanover, surrounded by her family and the thoughts and prayers of countless family and friends. She was born into a loving Quaker family in Medford, MA on Feb. 10, 1917 (total medical bills for her birth $5), the daughter of Lawrence Graham Brooks and Susan Morris Hallowell Brooks. She attended the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, MA, the Cambridge School of Weston, and Smith College. After graduation in 1938, she returned to Shady Hill to teach. In 1942, Ann married H. Adams (Ad) Carter, a high-school language teacher and world-renowned mountaineer, in whose "steps she trod" for 53 years, joining him on expeditions from the White Mountains to the Himalaya, to Peru and to places beyond.

They attended both the wedding and the coronation of the King of Nepal (whom they had hosted in their home in Jefferson, NH while he was studying at Harvard) and joined Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the first ascent of Mt. Everest. In 1974, they trekked with another couple into the base of K2 (the world's second highest mountain). Two years later, Ann spent a month at a Ghandi Ashram in the foothills of the Himalaya while Ad co-led a major mountaineering expedition. In 1988, at the invitation of the Chinese Mountaineering Federation, they were the first foreigners since the revolution allowed into the Tibetan Plateau region of Yunnan Province in China in connection with a joint Chinese-American Mountaineering Expedition.

Although Ad was officially the Editor of the American Alpine Journal, Ann spent almost as many hours as he did editing text and reading galley proofs. The side benefit for both of them was that they seemed to always have a place to stay with a fellow mountaineer during their many world travels.

Ann and Ad were based in Washington, DC during WWII, but they both spent substantial time on Mt. Washington during the winter months, testing and developing mountaineering equipment for the 10th Mountain Division on behalf of the Army Quartermaster Corps. Following the war, they moved to Chile for 9 months and then settled for 58 years in Milton, MA where Ad taught foreign languages and ran the outdoor program at Milton Academy, while Ann filled the role of community volunteer and surrogate parent to countless boarding students and foreign students with whom she continued to interact and communicate throughout her life. She was famous for her afternoon teas and her ever-open heart. After Ad's death, Ann moved to Kendal in Hanover, NH in 2005 to be closer to her son, Peter, and his family.

Some of Ann's favorite times were spent in Jefferson, NH (at an old Carter family property in the White Mountains) and in South Orleans, MA (at an old Brooks family property on the ocean) where she entertained countless cousins and guests. Last summer, at the age of 94, she was still sailing in her beloved 1913 Catboat and swimming in Pleasant Bay.

Ann is survived by a brother, John G. Brooks (98) of Weston, MA, a sister, Charlotte B. Read (91) of Concord, MA, two sons, Peter H. Carter and his wife Deborah McLane Carter, of Norwich, VT, and Lawrence A. Carter and his wife Lady Morales Carter, of Chestnut Ridge, NY, Nathaniel's widow, Linda, and her husband Bill Miller of Gates Mills, Ohio, nine beloved grandchildren, Sasha, Susan, Richard and his wife Aria, Ashley, Maile, Laurel, Philip, Phoebe, and Meg, and numerous nieces and nephews to whom she was totally devoted. She is predeceased by a son, Nathaniel, and a daughter, Susan.

A memorial service is scheduled in the Gathering Room at Kendal on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 at 2 PM.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, to the Cadbury Fund, Kendal at Hanover, 80 Lyme Rd., Hanover, NH 03755, or to HealthCare Nepal, George School 4455, 1690 Newtown Langhorne Rd, Newtown, PA 18940.

Arrangements were under the direction of the Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover, NH.