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George Lowe
Mountaineer, Film director
1924 – 2013
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Who was George Lowe?
Wallace George Lowe, CNZM, OBE, known as George Lowe, was a New Zealand-born mountaineer, explorer, film director and educator. He was the last surviving member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition, during which his friend Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first known people to summit the world's highest peak.
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- Born
- Jan 15, 1924
Hastings - Also known as
- Wallace George Lowe
- Spouses
- Mary Lowe
- Susan Hunt
(1962 - )
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Profession
- Education
- Hastings Boys' High School
- Died
- Mar 20, 2013
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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