Mike Banks (mountaineer)

Mike Banks (born 1922) is a British climber and mountaineer. He has climbed in all continents and the Arctic. During his career as an officer in the Royal Marines, he was a member of the British North Greenland Expedition (1952 to 1954).

In 1958, he made the first ascent of Rakaposhi with Tom Patey as part of a British-Pakistani joint forces Himalayan expedition.^[1]

At the age of 77, in May 2000, he climbed the Scottish sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy becoming the oldest person to have done so.^[2]

Bibliography

• Commando Climber (1955)
• High Arctic (1957)
• Rakaposhi (1957)
• Greenland (1975)

References

1. ^ Banks, M.E.B; Mills, E.J.E (1960). "The Ascent of Rakaposhi". The Geographical Journal (The Royal Geographical Society.) CXXVI. JSTOR 1790422. 
2. ^ "Alpine Club Newsletter 3/2000" (MS word). Alpine Club. July 2000. http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/news/newsletters/2000/July-2000.doc. Retrieved 30 August 2010. 

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