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    sailing voyages. Bill Tilman was born on 14 February 1898 in Wallasey, Cheshire, the son of a wealthy sugar merchant John Hinkes Tilman and his wife Adeline...
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    decades of attempts, no one had been able to enter. In 1934 Eric Shipton, Bill Tilman and their three accomplished Sherpas succeeded in finding a climbing...
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    Tilman Joseph Fertitta (born 1957) is an American billionaire businessman and television personality. He is the chairman, CEO, and owner of Landry's, Inc...
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    reached and described by mountaineers Eric Shipton & Bill Tilman; 1936: Mountaineers Bill Tilman & Noel Odell climbed Nanda Devi; 1939: The basin established...
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    Kenya's community of Europeans where he met his future climbing partners Bill Tilman and Percy Wyn-Harris. Together with Wyn-Harris, he climbed the twin peaks...
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  • viable. The Tilman Trophy has been a keenly contested section of the race. The trophy is named after the famed Harold William (Bill) Tilman CBE, DSO, MC...
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  • producer Saint Tilman (c. 608–702), French priest, abbot and hermit Bill Tilman (1898–1977), English mountaineer and explorer G. David Tilman (born 1949)...
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  • frostbite ruled out any mountaineering but in 1936 he was selected by Bill Tilman for the British–American Himalayan Expedition to Nanda Devi. Because...
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    expeditions were small and low-cost as preferred by Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman.[citation needed] These early campaigns helped overcome the relatively...
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    September 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2012. Madge, Tim (1995). Last Hero: Bill Tilman, a Biography of the Explorer. Mountaineers Books. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-89886-452-6...
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    main summit. The summit pair were H. W. Tilman and Noel Odell; Charles Houston was to be in place of Tilman, but he contracted severe food poisoning...
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    of the term "metoh-kangmi" and the term used in Bill Tilman's book Mount Everest, 1938 where Tilman had used the words "metch", which does not exist...
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    and higher, all without supplemental oxygen. In 1936 Noel Odell with Bill Tilman climbed Nanda Devi, at the time the highest mountain climbed. He was...
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    Major Warwick Deacock, with the schooner Patanela skippered by Major Bill Tilman. They succeeded in climbing Mawson Peak for the first time. An earlier...
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    Club of East Africa was formed. At the end of July 1930, Shipton and Bill Tilman made the first traverse of the peaks. They ascended by the West Ridge...
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    Led by Bill Tilman, the 1938 British Mount Everest expedition was a low-key, low-cost expedition which was unlucky in encountering a very early monsoon...
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    Titanic. John Rippiner Heath (1887–1950), physician and composer. Major Bill Tilman, (1898–1977), English mountaineer and explorer, known for his Himalayan...
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    passing Gori Chen include the Bailey–Morshead exploration in 1913 and Bill Tilman's expedition in 1939. The Bailey–Morshead exploration in 1913 has inspired...
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  • 1950. Last person to see Mallory and Irvine high up on Everest in 1924. Bill Tilman (1898–1977) British. First ascent of Nanda Devi in 1936. In 1934, first...
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    made in 1900, 1904 and 1947, the last by the team of Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman who came very close to the summit but were turned back due to cold and...
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    artist and cartoonist Ray Stubbs (b. 1956), TV sports presenter Major Bill Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC and Bar (1898–1977), mountaineer and explorer Victor Tindall...
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  • Ader" (2007 documentary) "The Life and Times of the Legendary Explorer Bill Tilman". Archived from the original on 26 March 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2009....
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  • Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973) 1898 – Bill Tilman, English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1977) 1898 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American...
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    and OSS). Some later became well-known, such as climber and explorer Bill Tilman, reporter and historian Peter Tompkins, former RAF pilot Count Manfred...
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    Yosemite Herbert Tichy (1912–1987) Austrian, first ascent Cho Oyu (1954) Bill Tilman (1898–1977) UK, explorer, climbed in Africa and Himalaya, first ascent...
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    numerous international locations. The company is owned by President & CEO Tilman Fertitta. The first Landry's Seafood restaurant opened in Texas in 1980...
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    Erskine Childers, Arthur Ransome, Hammond Innes, Peter and Anne Pye, Bill Tilman, Blondie Hasler, Adlard Coles, Miles and Beryl Smeeton and Eric and Susan...
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    Western expeditions in 1950 after China took control of Tibet. In 1950, Bill Tilman and a small party which included Charles Houston, Oscar Houston, and...
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  • in June in the United Kingdom since 1977. It is based on an idea of Bill Tilman, who had advocated a Three Peaks Challenge route without using motorised...
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    reconnaissance expedition, the prolific British mountaineering explorer Bill Tilman was appointed leader of the 1938 Everest expedition which attempted the...
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