Colin Grant Crawford (3 June 1890 to 15 August 1959) was a British mountaineer and civil servant who won an Olympic gold medal for alpinism in 1924. Educated at Clifton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he served in the Indian Civil Service between 1914 and 1930. In 1920 he reconnoitred Kangchenjunga with Harold Raeburn, then served as transport officer on the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition led by Charles Granville Bruce, and later joined the 1933 expedition led by Hugh Ruttledge, extracts of whose diary he published in the Alpine Journal. He died in 1959, reportedly while playing cricket, and was nicknamed Ferdie for his resemblance to Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.
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Born 3 June 1890 in Badulla, Uva SRI
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was a British mountaineer and civil servant
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won the Olympic gold medal for alpinism in 1924 along with other team members
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