LC control no. | no2002083027 |
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Personal name heading | Band, George, 1929-2011 |
Found in | Road 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)) |