Doug Scott: The first English mountaineer to conquer Everest
Doug Scott: The first English mountaineer to conquer Everest Marcus Williamson © Provided by The Independent 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. Scott and his climbing partner Dougal Haston became the first Britons to conquer Everest, making their ascent via the notorious southwest face, in 1975. Douglas Scott was born in Nottingham in 1941, the eldest of three sons of Edith Scott and George Scott, a policeman and amateur boxer. Scott began climbing ...
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