Biographies – United Kingdom

Charles Evans is the British mountaineer who, in 1953, together with Tom Bourdillon, reached the South Summit ofEverest, the highest point reached by John Hunt’s British expedition before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit. In 1955, he led the British expedition that made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest peak. A surgeon by training, he was principal of the University College of North Wales (later Bangor University) from 1958, and president of the Alpine Club from 1967 to 1970.

Alpinista e scrittore britannico, presidente dell'Alpine Club dal 1865 al 1868 e primo direttore del Dictionary of National Biography.

A British explorer and officer, he led the 1903–1904 expedition to Tibet.

Dougal burst onto the mountaineering scene in the late '1950s by climbing new routes in Scotland together with Robin Smith. He went on to make an initial English ascent of the Eigerwand, was a major force in the creation of the direct Eiger, took ...

Alpinista e incisore su legno britannico, autore della prima ascensione del Cervino il 14 luglio 1865.

Donald Desbrow Whillans was one of the greatest British mountaineers of the 1950s-1970s generation. He was born on the outskirts of Manchester, in a neighbourhood that had become 'dodgy' in those years due to the expansion of the metropolis. The fami...

British surveyor and cartographer, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.

On 12 April 1856, William Martin Conway was born in Rochester, a British explorer and mountaineer known for a number of notable ascents in the Alps, Andes and Karakorum.