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3 unusual facts about George Irving Bell


Lhotse

It also included two Austrians (cartographer Erwin Schneider and Ernst Senn) and two Swiss (Bruno Spirig and Arthur Spöhel), and was the first expedition in the Everest area to include Americans (Fred Beckey, George Bell, and Richard McGowan).

Masherbrum

After two more failed expeditions, in 1955 and 1957, Masherbrum was first climbed in 1960 by George Irving Bell and Willi Unsoeld, part of an American-Pakistani expedition led by Nick Clinch.

Pete Schoening

While attempting to traverse an ice sheet, climber George Irving Bell lost his footing, pulling Tony Streather loose.



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