Charles Granville Bruce (1866 to 1939) was a senior British Indian Army officer, a veteran Himalayan mountaineer and leader of the second and third British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924. In recognition of the former he was awarded a special prize at the conclusion of the first ever Winter Olympics. The youngest of the fourteen children of Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, he was educated at Harrow and Repton, and was a strong, enthusiastic boxer and 300-yard runner who represented England against France in an international running meeting in the 1880s. He fell ill during the 1924 expedition, and Edward Felix Norton took over its leadership.
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a veteran Himalayan mountaineer and leader of the second and third British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924
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