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George Ingle Finch MBE FRS (4 August 1888 – 22 November 1970) was a British-Australian chemist and mountaineer. His obituary in The Times describes him as "one of the two best alpinists of his time" (with George Mallory).
May 25, 2019 · His name was George Finch. A chemist and brilliant mountaineer, he won an MBE for his bomb-making skills during WWI. In 1922 he was invited on Britain's first Everest expedition.
- Ben Deacon
On the slopes of Mount Everest 100 years ago, Australian mountaineer George Finch revealed his latest invention to his fellow climbers.It was laughed off at ...
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- ABC News (Australia)
May 1, 2003 · George Ingle Finch (1888–1970) was the first person to prove the great value of supplementary oxygen for climbing at extreme altitudes. He did this during the 1922 Everest expedition when he and his companion, Geoffrey Bruce, reached an altitude of 8,320 m, higher than any human had climbed before.
- John B. West
- 2003
May 25, 2015 · When a 13-year-old boy chased a mob of wallabies up Mount Canobolas near Orange one spring morning in 1901, he could not have imagined that his climb would be the precursor to one of the great pioneering adventures of modern times — and lead him to the roof of the world.
There are two stories in Robert Wainwright's fascinating life of the Australian-born mountaineer George Finch. One shows Finch as the kind of hero that biographers and screenwriters love: the colonial upstart who prevailed and lost and prevailed again over the hostility of the British climbing establishment.
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Jun 9, 2022 · George Finch. An international pioneer of modern mountain climbing techniques, George Ingle Finch was born near Orange on 4 August 1888. George went to school at Wolaroi College in Orange. The family moved to Europe in 1901, when George was aged 14.
