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Douglas Keith Scott CBE (29 May 1941 – 7 December 2020) was an English mountaineer and climbing author, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975.
Dec 7, 2020 · A mountaineer who was part of the first UK team to summit Everest via the south-west face has died aged 79. Doug Scott was part of the famous team to complete the challenge in 1975.
Dec 8, 2020 · Mountaineer Doug Scott, who climbed one of Everest's toughest sections, has died aged 79. Tributes have been paid to the intrepid climber, who wrote his name into the record books by being the ...
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...
Doug Scott, who has died aged 79, was one of the world’s greatest mountaineers, an inveterate climber who had made 45 expeditions to the high mountains of Asia.
Dec 9, 2020 · On the morning of December 7, famed alpinist Doug Scott passed away in his sleep at his home in the Lakes District, England, after fighting a brain tumor for the better part of a year. Scott was among the most notable climbers of the 20th century, having pushed the cutting edge of alpinism in the 1970s and 1980s as the slow siege tactics of ...
Feb 13, 2021 · Doug Scott on an expedition taken in either the late 1970s or early 1980s with his team and Ang Phurba Sherpa. Trustee for CAN, Jon Maguire, said a team of 15 people had pledged to raise £20,000...
Dec 8, 2020 · Doug Scott climbed the so-called Seven Summits, the highest mountains on each continent, and broke both legs while abseiling another Himalayan peak, forcing him to crawl to base camp supported...
Dec 8, 2020 · LONDON — Doug Scott, a British mountaineer who was part of the first team to summit Mount Everest by way of its southwest face and later founded a charity to raise money for schools, health...
Doug Scott made 45 expeditions to the high mountains of Asia. He reached the summit of 40 peaks, of which half were climbed by new routes or for the first time in Alpine Style. Apart from his climb up the South West Face of Everest with Dougal Haston during Chris Bonington’s Expedition of 1975, he made all his climbs in lightweight or Alpine ...
