George Band

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George Band
Mountaineer
SpouseSusan Goodenough (m.1959)
Children3

George Christopher Band

1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of the mountain.[2] In 1955, he and Joe Brown were the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga
, the third highest mountain in the world.

Biography

George Band was born in

Imperial College, London
.

Having started climbing in the

1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of the mountain. Two years later he and Joe Brown became the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world on the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition. Out of respect for the religious feelings of the people of Nepal and Sikkim
, 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, aged 76, Band made the trek to the south-west Base Camp of Kangchenjunga in Nepal. He was president of the

BSES Expeditions, a youth development charity that operates challenging scientific research expeditions to remote wilderness environments. [citation needed
]

George Band was appointed

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[3]

George Band died of natural causes in Hampshire, England, UK, on 26 August 2011, aged 82.

Books published

  • Road to Rakaposhi (1955)[2]
  • Everest: 50 Years on Top of the World (2003)[2]
  • Summit (2006), a celebration of 150 years of the Alpine Club.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Notice of death of George Band (OBE; 1929–2011)
  2. ^ a b c d Obituary of George Band, The Daily Telegraph, 28/08/2011
  3. ^ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 9.

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