Acting
George Band
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Born
2 February 1929
Died
26 August 2011 (aged 82)
Birthplace
Taiwan
George Christopher Band OBE was an English mountaineer. He was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to ascend the mountain. In 1955, he and Joe Brown were the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world.
