Dr Hamish McInnes, OBE, BEM
(b.1930)
Mountaineering
Inducted in 2003
One of the founders of modern winter mountaineering, Hamish McInnes was equally famous for his exploits on the mountain and his equipment designs. These include the first all metal ice axe and the MacInnes mountain rescue stretchers now used internationally. He made his first attempt on Everest in 1953, an audacious shoe-string trip with fellow Scot John Cunningham of the Glasgow-based Creagh Dhu Mountaineering Club. Two decades later he was deputy leader of the successful 1975 Everest Southwest Face expedition. Hamish has written twenty-one books and is a world authority on mountain rescue.
- With Chris Bonington, first winter ascent of Raven's Gully, Buachaille Etive Mor, 1953
- With Dr. Tom Patey and Graeme Nichol, first winter ascent of Zero Gully, Ben Nevis, 1957
- With Mo Anthoine, Joe Brown and Don Whillans, the first ascent of the Prow of Roraima, Amazonia, 1973
- Involved in two Everest South-West Face expeditions in 1973
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