George Band (1929 to 2011) was an English mountaineer. He was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to ascend the mountain, and in 1955 he and Joe Brown were the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world. He was born in Taiwan, where his parents, Presbyterian missionaries, had lived since 1912; the island had been under Japanese control since 1895 and, by good fortune, the family left a fortnight before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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