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George Finch was a British-Australian chemist and mountaineer who participated in the second British expedition to Mount Everest in 1922. He also made significant contributions to chemical physics, electrochemistry and electron diffraction, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Alpine Club.
May 25, 2019 · Thirty years later, George Finch was an advisor and mentor on Edmund Hillary's successful ascent of Everest in 1953. For the expedition, New Zealand company Fairydown improved Finch's design to ...
- Ben Deacon
May 31, 2022 · George Finch, a New South Wales farmer, created the world's first puffer jacket in 1922 with eiderdown and aeroplane fabric. His invention revolutionised winter clothing and kept him warm on Mount Everest.
- Will Murray
On the slopes of Mount Everest 100 years ago, Australian mountaineer George Finch revealed his latest invention to his fellow climbers.It was laughed off at ...
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- ABC News (Australia)
The life of Australian climber George Finch, who challenged the status quo in the snobbish world of early-20th century mountaineering, is a story of the two sides to a remarkable man.
- Owen Richardson
May 25, 2015 · George Ingle Finch was born in 1888 in a stone homestead on a sheep and cattle station in NSW’s Central West region. Growing up, his father Charles was a great inspiration, encouraging early independence, giving George freedom to explore the bush and stirring his interest in science.
On a crisp spring morning in 1901, in the middle of a wallaby hunt, 13-year-old George Ingle Finch decided to become a mountaineer. Watching the sun rise over the Australian bush from the top...
