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Obituary of Doug Scott | Mountaineering

[ad_1] Doug Scott, who died of cancer at age 79, was the first Englishman to climb Everest, but it was what happened afterwards that made him famous in the mountaineering world. Scott and his Scottish partner, Dougal Haston, were part of Chris Bonington’s 1975 expedition to climb Everest the “hard …

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