Noel Odell

Noel Odell (1890 to 1987) was an English geologist and mountaineer who in 1924 was oxygen officer on the Everest expedition on which George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared. Odell lived for two weeks above 23,000 feet and twice climbed to 26,800 feet and higher without supplemental oxygen, and he was the last person to see the pair alive, reporting them going strongly for the top. In 1936 he and Bill Tilman climbed Nanda Devi, at the time the highest mountain climbed. An accomplished rock climber, he joined the Alpine Club in 1916 and made the solo first ascent of Tennis Shoe on the Idwal Slabs in Snowdonia in 1919; Odell Gully in Huntington Ravine on Mount Washington is named for his first winter ascent.