Earl Denman
Earl L. Denman was born on 11 December 1914 or in Tod Inlet on Vancouver Island[1] but grew up in England.[2] He was a Canadian mountaineer who attempted to climb Mount Everest in 1947.[1] By 1947 he was working as an engineer in Southern Rhodesia.[3]
His illegal
Denman tried to return to Everest in 1948,[3] but couldn't leave India.[4] In 1954 his autobiography Alone to Everest of his Everest attempt was published.[10][11][12] Later he fought Apartheid in South Africa,[2] where he was living in the 1960s[3] before he was thrown out of the country.[2]
In 1982 he was living in New Zealand.[2] On 9 December 1994 an Earl Lionel Denman died in New Zealand; he was born on 11 December 1914.[13]
References
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...when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to stand on the summit of Mount Everest, the celebrated Sherpa guide was wearing a woolen balaclava helmet given to him six years earlier by an amateur Canadian mountain climber named Earl Denman. "So at last," Tenzing recounted later, "a little part of Denman reached his goal."
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...B.C.-born Earl Denman made history with one of the most audacious attempts ever to climb the mountain.
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Sources
- Alone to Everest, by Earl Denman, Collins, 1954, pp. 256
- Everest, by Walt Unsworth
- Tiger of the Snows/Man of Everest, by Tenzing Norgay and James Ramsey Ullman
- Into Thin Air, beginning of Chapter 7, by Jon Krakauer