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3 unusual facts about Bill Tilman


Pilgrims Publishing

H. W. Tilman, Nepal Himalaya (Pilgrims Publishing), ISBN 81-7303-107-X

H. W. Tilman, Mount Everest 1938 (Pilgrims Publishing), ISBN 81-7769-175-9 (contains the infamous Appendix B on the Yeti)

William Ernest Bowman

William Ernest Bowman (30 September 1911 Scarborough - 1 January 1985), was an engineer and writer, best remembered for his 1956 book The Ascent of Rum Doodle, a satire on the world of mountaineering literature inspired by Bill Tilman and his 1937 account of the Nanda Devi expedition.


Thomas Graham Brown

In 1936, Graham Brown was part of the joint British–American team that made the first ascent of Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalaya, though only two of the party, Bill Tilman and Noel Odell, made the summit.


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