Douglas Keith Scott CBE, known as Doug Scott is a British mountaineer famous for the first ascent of the Southwest Face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. Scott and Dougal Haston, were the first Britons to climb Everest during this expedition. Scott was born in Nottingham and started climbing at the age of 12, his interest sparked by a school trip to the White Hall outdoor activities centre near Buxton.

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  • Douglas Keith Scott CBE, known as Doug Scott is a British mountaineer famous for the first ascent of the Southwest Face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. Scott and Dougal Haston, were the first Britons to climb Everest during this expedition. Scott was born in Nottingham and started climbing at the age of 12, his interest sparked by a school trip to the White Hall outdoor activities centre near Buxton. Scott's remarkable mountaineering career includes over 30 expeditions to inner Asia and he is regarded as one of the world's leading high altitude and big wall climbers. He is best known for his historic first ascent of the South-West face of Everest with Dougal Haston in an expedition led by Chris Bonington. However all of his other climbs were in the lightweight alpine style. Scott is also remarkable in that half of his climbs are first ascents. Highlights of Scott's climbing career include 1975: Southwest face of Everest with Dougal Haston, bivouac on the south summit at 8760 m. 1977: Ascent of Baintha Brakk, more commonly known as The Ogre and descent with both legs broken at the ankle. 1978: Ascent attempt of the west side of K2. 1979: North ridge of Kanchenjunga (8586 m). 1979: Ascent of the north side of Nuptse with Georges Bettembourg, Bryan Hall and Allan Rouse. During Scott's climbing career, his understanding of the culture and the people in the regions where he climbed grew as he formed strong bonds and relationships. This is particularly true of Nepal and he felt he had to do something positive and purposeful for the people of that country. While he saw them as "emotionally" wealthy, they had little infrastructural wealth such as educational opportunities, access to primary health care or clean water systems. To further these aims he founded the charity Community Action Nepal and spends much of his time fundraising for this cause, especially from giving public lectures. Scott is also an advocate of Responsible Tourism. He noticed that many agencies who provide porters for climbing expeditions exploit their Nepali staff. He found out that one agency that he had been using was not paying any wages to the Sherpas, saying that they were lucky to have the opportunity of getting tips from foreigners. Following this discovery in 1989, Scott resolved to set up his own trekking agency vowing to pay the porters and other staff double the going rate and to improve working conditions. Porters' loads were reduced and clothing purchased to combat the cold and rain. Scott has climbed the Seven Summits, the highest peak on each of all seven continents. He is a past President of the Alpine Club and was made a CBE in 1994. In 1999 he was awarded the Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. He was presented with the Golden Eagle Award by the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild in 2005.
  • Doug Scott, CBE war vor allem in den 1970er und 80er Jahren einer der besten britischen Extrembergsteiger und gilt als einer der erfolgreichsten Höhenbergsteiger aller Zeiten. Er erhielt 1994 den Titel „Commander of the Order of the British Empire“ und 1999 die Patron’s Gold Medal der Royal Geographical Society. Von 1999 bis 2001 war er Präsident des British Alpine Club. Doug Scott ist mit der indischen Bergsteigerin Sharavati (Sharu) Prabhu verheiratet.
  • Douglas Keith Scott CBE känd som Doug Scott är en engelsk bergsbestigare och äventyrare född i Nottingham den 29 maj 1941. Gift med den Indiska klättraren Sharavati (Sharu) Prabhu. Började klättra som 12åring efter att ha varit med på en skolutflykt till White Hall outdoor activities centre i Buxton. Scotts lärare sa att han och hans vänner under inga omständligheter fick gå klättra en liten klippa som låg i närheten av utflyktsområdet. Nästa dag begav sig Scott tillsammans med några vänner till klippan och började klättra. Deras utrustning var väldigt primitiv. De hade bl.a. inget bra rep, så Scott tog med sig sin mammas tvättlina. En av hans vänner hittade emellertid en gammal bogserlina hemma hos hans pappa, som de började använda sig av. Scott har gjort cirka 30 expeditioner till Asien och Himalaya. Hälften av de berg han har bestigit har han gjort som förste person.
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  • Douglas Keith Scott CBE, known as Doug Scott is a British mountaineer famous for the first ascent of the Southwest Face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. Scott and Dougal Haston, were the first Britons to climb Everest during this expedition. Scott was born in Nottingham and started climbing at the age of 12, his interest sparked by a school trip to the White Hall outdoor activities centre near Buxton.
  • Doug Scott, CBE war vor allem in den 1970er und 80er Jahren einer der besten britischen Extrembergsteiger und gilt als einer der erfolgreichsten Höhenbergsteiger aller Zeiten. Er erhielt 1994 den Titel „Commander of the Order of the British Empire“ und 1999 die Patron’s Gold Medal der Royal Geographical Society. Von 1999 bis 2001 war er Präsident des British Alpine Club. Doug Scott ist mit der indischen Bergsteigerin Sharavati (Sharu) Prabhu verheiratet.
  • Douglas Keith Scott CBE känd som Doug Scott är en engelsk bergsbestigare och äventyrare född i Nottingham den 29 maj 1941. Gift med den Indiska klättraren Sharavati (Sharu) Prabhu. Började klättra som 12åring efter att ha varit med på en skolutflykt till White Hall outdoor activities centre i Buxton. Scotts lärare sa att han och hans vänner under inga omständligheter fick gå klättra en liten klippa som låg i närheten av utflyktsområdet.
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