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The 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces. In the post- monsoon season Chris Bonington led the expedition that used rock climbing techniques to put fixed ropes up the face from the Western Cwm to just below the South Summit .
1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition - On September 24, a British expedition led by Chris Bonington achieved the first ascent of the Southwest Face. Summiteers Doug Scott and Dougal Haston made the first ascent by British citizens. [48]
1973 Japanese RCCII Everest Expedition; 1975 Japanese Women's Everest Expedition [13] Junko Tabei: (Japan) became the first woman to reach the summit of Everest on 5/16/75 via the South-East Ridge route. [14] 1975 Chinese Mount Everest expedition – North Col – North East Ridge; 1975 British SW Face; 1976 British and Nepalese Army expedition ...
He later trained as a cameraman. Burke came to wider recognition through a number of British-led mountaineering expeditions during the 1960s and 1970s. These included expeditions led by Chris Bonington to Annapurna's South Face in 1970 and an unsuccessful attempt on Mount Everest's south-west face in 1972. [1]
Scott was considered one of the world's leading high-altitude and big-wall climbers [11] [12] and was the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements. [13] He was the first English person to reach the summit of Mount Everest and, on the descent, he survived an unplanned bivouac with Dougal Haston 100 metres below the summit, without oxygen, sleeping bags and, as it turned out, without ...
Junko Tabei and Sherpa Ang Tshering I on May 16, 1975 [16] [17] Phanthog on May 27, 1975 [15] Doug Scott and Dougal Haston on September 24, 1975 (1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition) Peter Boardman and Sirdar Pertemba Sherpa on September 26, 1975 [18] Brummie Stokes and Bronco Lane [19] on May 16, 1976 [20] (1976 British Army ...
The 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition led and organised by Chris Bonington made the first ascent of the south west face of Everest from the Western Cwm. The 1976 British and Nepalese Army Expedition to Everest led by Tony Streather put Bronco Lane and Brummy Stokes on the summit by the normal route.
In 1972 he was unsuccessful on the south-west face of Mount Everest, but reached 27,300 feet. He had another shot at that route in 1975, and the 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition that he led was successful--it put four climbers on the summit, but Mick Burke died during his summit attempt. [3]