Gimbel, Peter (Robin)
US explorer, film-maker, and businessman. A trustee of the New York Zoological Society (from 1957) and the American Museum of Natural History (1958), in 1959 he also became an executive director of the family retailing business Gimbel Brothers, Inc. (see Isaac Gimbel). Profoundly affected by the death of his twin brother David, he opted to move away from business and pursue his interests in science and exploration. In 1963, he led a team into the uncharted Vilcabamba Range in the Peruvian Andes. He formed the Blue Meridian Company, producing several documentary films, including Blue Water, White Death (1971) about the great white shark.
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