- George Band
George Band (born 1929) is a British
mountaineer . Having started climbing in theAlps while a student atQueens' College, Cambridge , he was the youngest person on the 1953 Everest expedition. Two years later, in 1955, he and Joe Brown became the first climbers to ascendKangchenjunga . Out of respect for the religious feelings of the people ofNepal andSikkim , they stopped about ten feet below the actual summit.Following these early mountaineering successes, George Band spent most of his professional life in oil and gas exploration. In 2005, as a still-active 76 year old, Band made the trek to the south-west Base Camp of Kangchenjunga in Nepal. George Band has been president of the Alpine Club and the British Mountaineering Council, and still travels around the world. He has written the books, "Road to Rakaposhi" and in 2003, "Everest 50 Years on Top of the World" (the official history - Mount Everest Foundation, Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club). In 2007 he wrote " Summit", a book celebrating 150 years of the Alpine Club. George is currently Chairman of the Himalayan Trust (UK).
George Band is an Appeal Patron forBSES Expeditions , a youth development charity that operates challenging scientific research expeditions to remote wilderness environments
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