George Band
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Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday2 February 1929
Died26 August 2011 (age 82)
Place of birthTaiwan
Known credits3
Biography
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.
