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We live and learn, and big mountains are stern teachers.
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Birth: | 14th February, 1898 |
Death: | 1977 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Explorer, Mountaineer |
Bill Tilman was born in Wallasey in Cheshire, England. He was an English mountaineer and explorer, renowned for his Himalayan climbs and sailing voyages. His climbing career, however, began with his acquaintance with Eric Shipton in Kenya, East Africa, where they were both coffee growers. Tilman was involved in two of the 1930s Mount Everest expeditions - participating in the 1935 Reconnaissance Expedition, and reaching 27,200 feet without oxygen as the expedition leader in 1938. He penetrated the Nanda Devi sanctuary with Eric Shipton in 1934, and in 1936 he went on to lead an Anglo-American expedition to Nanda Devi.
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