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    Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL (born 6 August 1934) is a British mountaineer. His career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas...
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  • Sunday Times, 20 October 1996. Bonington, Chris (2002) Chris Bonington's Everest London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p212. Bonington also concluded that the 1984...
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    will eventually collapse. The stack was first climbed by mountaineers Chris Bonington, Rusty Baillie and Tom Patey in 1966. From 8–9 July 1967, an ascent...
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  • Annapurna expedition led by Sir Chris Bonington to climb the south face of the Himalayan massif. He was later described by Bonington as "the most modest man I...
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    British Expeditionary Force.[citation needed] British mountaineer Chris Bonington appeared in TV commercials for Bovril in the 1970s and 1980s in which...
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    English rock climber and mountaineer. He climbed with Joe Brown and Chris Bonington on many new routes, and was considered the technical equal of both...
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    and 1976, the peak was first climbed by two Britons, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington, in 1977. (The other members of the party were Mo Anthoine, Clive Rowland...
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  • expedition to Mount Everest. Also participating was British mountaineer Chris Bonington. When asked, during a late-1990s television interview, about the risks...
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    British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition led and organised by Chris Bonington made the first ascent of the south west face of Everest from the Western...
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  • Schmatz's body on a Nepalese police expedition. British mountaineer Chris Bonington spotted Schmatz from a distance in 1985, and initially mistook her...
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