In 1932, the island was sold to the English mountaineer Hugh Ruttledge (1884–1961), who had taken early retirement from the Indian Civil Service and planned a life as a farmer.
In 1931 he was part of the team which climbed Kamet (at the time, the highest mountain to have been climbed), and in 1933 he was the senior doctor on the fourth British expedition to Mount Everest led by Hugh Ruttledge (in 1953 when the mountain was finally climbed, it was Greene who made the announcement on the BBC).
Hugh Ruttledge (1884–1961), English civil servant and mountaineer
Hugh Masekela | Hugh Jackman | Hugh Grant | Hugh Laurie | Hugh Hefner | Hugh | Hugh O'Brian | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland | Hugh Martin | Hugh Dennis | Hugh Walpole | Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone | Hugh de Lacy | St Hugh's College, Oxford | Hugh Wheeler | Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard | Hugh Trenchard | Hugh Pughe Lloyd | Hugh MacDiarmid | Hugh Lloyd | Hugh Greene | Hugh Carey | Hugh Wolff | Hugh Trevor-Roper | Hugh Shelton | Hugh Price Hughes | Hugh O'Neill | Hugh Latimer |