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Band, George, 1929-2011

LC control no.no2002083027
Personal name headingBand, George, 1929-2011
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Found inRoad to Rakaposhi, 1955: t.p. (George Band)
OCLC, Sept. 10, 2002 (hdg: Band, George, 1929- ; usage: George Band)
Telegraph WWW site, Aug. 29, 2011 (George Band; b. George Christopher Band, Feb. 2, 1929, Taiwan; d. Aug. 26, aged 82; one of the last surviving climbers of the 1953 British Everest expedition which put Hillary and Tenzing on the summit; two years later he made the first ascent of the more challenging Kanchenjunga, the world's third-highest mountain; author of Road to Rakaposhi (1955))