MEET THE TEAM
1953 BRITISH MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION



The expedition participants were selected for their mountaineering qualifications and also for their expertise in providing a number of other necessary skills and support services. While most were from the United Kingdom itself, they were also drawn from other countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations.


John Hunt

Expedition Leader / Mountaineer

Tom Bourdillon

Oxygen Equip. Specialist / Mountaineer

Michael Ward

Expedition Doctor / Mountaineer

Charles Wylie

Organising Secretary / Mountaineer

George Band

Radio & Food / Mountaineer

Tenzing Norgay

Sherpa

Sir Edmund Hilary

Mountaineer

Michael Westmacott

Mountaineer

George Lowe

Surveyor / Mountaineer

Wilfrid Noyce

Mountaineer

Griffith Pugh

Altitude Specialist / Mountaineer

Charles Evans

Deputy Expedition Leader / Mountaineer

Alfred Gregory

Photographer / Mountaineer

James Morris

Times Correspondent

Tom Stobart

Cinematographer / Mountaineer