1. Douglas Keith Scott was an English mountaineer and climbing author, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975.
19 Facts About Doug Scott
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Doug Scott would later discover that his mother was born at almost the exact same time as famed mountaineer Edmund Hillary, which Doug Scott felt was an uncanny coincidence.
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Doug Scott started climbing at the age of 13, his interest sparked by seeing climbers on the Black Rocks in Derbyshire whilst hiking with the Scouts.
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Doug Scott's father, George Douglas Scott, was a policeman and amateur boxer, who was the Amateur Boxing Association 1945 British Heavyweight Champion.
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Doug Scott's father gave up the game to focus on the family.
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Doug Scott lived on the outskirts of Nottingham with his father and mother, Edith Joyce Doug Scott, and younger brothers, Brian and Garry.
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Doug Scott was considered one of the world's leading high-altitude and big-wall climbers and was the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements.
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Doug Scott was the first English person to reach the summit of Mount Everest and, on the descent, he survived an unplanned bivouac with Dougal Haston 100 metres below the summit, without oxygen, sleeping bags and, as it turned out, without frostbite.
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Doug Scott pioneered big wall climbing on Baffin Island, Mount Kenya and in the Karakoram, famously on the "fearsome Karakoram peak" The Ogre in Pakistan with Chris Bonington, and later on Shivling in the Indian Himalayas.
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Abseiling from the summit of The Ogre, Doug Scott slipped and broke both his legs at 7,200 metres.
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Doug Scott was a founder member of the Nottingham Climbers Club, president of the Alpine Climbing Group, vice president of the British Mountaineering Council and president of the Alpine Club.
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Doug Scott was made a Freeman of the City of Nottingham in 1976 and has since had a Nottingham tram named after him.
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Doug Scott was awarded an honorary MA by the universities of Nottingham and Loughborough, 1993; Hon.
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Doug Scott received the British Guild of Travel Writers Tourism and Community Merit Award 1996, and CAT received the Responsible Tourism Award 2008.
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Doug Scott was a member of the Hunt Committee contributing to the Hunt Report on Outdoor Education 1976.
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Doug Scott was an honorary member of the Climbers Club, the Alpine Club and the American Alpine Club.
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Doug Scott was a vice president of the BMC between 1994 and 1997 and went on to become a patron of the BMC in 2015.
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In March 2020, Doug Scott was diagnosed with inoperable cerebral lymphoma.
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Doug Scott died at his home in Cumbria, England of the disease on 7 December 2020, aged 79.