Tom Longstaff
Tom George Longstaff (15 January 1875 – 27 June 1964) was an English medical doctor, explorer and mountaineer, most famous for being the first person to climb a summit of over 7,000 metres in elevation, Trisul, in the India/Pakistan Himalayas in 1907. He also made important explorations and climbs in Tibet, Nepal, the Karakoram, Spitsbergen, Greenland, and Baffin Island. He was president of the (British) Alpine Club from 1947 to 1949 and a founding member of The Alpine Ski Club in 1908.
Early life
Longstaff was the eldest son of Lt-Col. Llewellyn W. Longstaff OBE of Wimbledon, the first and most generous supporter of Captain Scott's National Antarctic Expedition.[1] He was educated at Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford, and St Thomas' Hospital, London.[1]
War service
Longstaff was commissioned into the 1/7th Battalion of the
During the
Mountaineer
Longstaff climbed in the Alps, the Caucasus, Himalayas, Selkirk, Rocky Mountains, Greenland, and Spitsbergen.
Before the
After the war, he took part in an
In 1933 he was one of eleven people
He lived at
Notes
- ^ The letter was signed:
- Desborough
- Hugh S. Gladstone
- Grey of Fallodon
- Julian S. Huxley (Chancellor of Oxford University)
- T. G Longstaff
- Percy R. Lowe
- P. Chalmers Mitchell
- Rothschild
- Scone M.P. (Chairman, British Trust for Ornithology)
- E. L. Turner
- H. F. Witherby (President, British Ornithologists' Union)
References
- ^ a b c Obituary: Dr T. G. Longstaff by Eric Shipton in The Geographical Journal, vol. 130, no. 3 (September, 1964), pp. 443-444
- ^ "Observers of Birds" (PDF). The Times. 1 July 1933.
- ^ Thelema Lodge Calendar at billheidrick.com (accessed 7 January 2008)
- Longstaff, Tom George in Who's Who 1964.
- Eric Shipton, Longstaff, Tom George (1875–1964), rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
External links
- Works by Tom Longstaff at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Tom Longstaff at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)