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Doug Scott. Douglas Keith Scott CBE (29 May 1941 – 7 December 2020 [1]) was an English mountaineer, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975.
- British
- Mountaineer, author
- 7 December 2020 (aged 79), Cumbria, England, UK
Dec 8, 2020 · Douglas Keith Scott, mountaineer, born 29 May 1941; died 7 December 2020. This article was amended on 8 December 2020 because Doug Scott was born 12 years before Tenzing and Hillary climbed ...
Dec 9, 2020 · Doug Scott was a visionary climber who helped usher in alpine style in mountaineering and made the first ascent of Everest's Southwest Face in 1975. He also survived a broken leg on Ogre I and founded Community Action Nepal, a charity for the Himalaya.
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Dec 8, 2020 · Mountaineer Doug Scott, who was part of the first UK team to summit Mount Everest via the south-west face, has passed away at the age of 79. Scott spent the later years of his life helping people ...
Doug Scott, who died aged 79, was one of the world’s greatest mountaineers, who made 45 expeditions to the high mountains of Asia. He and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to conquer Everest via the southwest face in 1975, and later founded Community Action Nepal.
Dec 7, 2020 · Doug Scott was part of the first UK team to summit Everest via the south-west face in 1975. He also founded the charity Community Action Nepal to help people in the Himalayas and raised money in lockdown by climbing stairs.
Dec 8, 2020 · The British climber, who conquered the south-west face of Everest with his team in 1975, has died at his home in the Lake District. He was a CBE and a true friend of Nepal who founded a charity to help people in the Himalayas. He also wrote his name into the record books by being the first to climb Mount Everest's south-west face.
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