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Kamet

1951: Mukut Parbat is climbed via the steep northwest ridge by a crack New Zealand team that includes Edmund Hillary, George Lowe, H. E. Riddiford (leader), F. M. Cotter and Pasang Dawa Lama.


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Raymond Greene

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).


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