Hunt of Llanfairwaterdine, John Hunt, Baron

▪ 1999

      British soldier and mountaineer who was the leader of the 1953 British expedition during which Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first persons to climb to the top of Mt. Everest; he was created C.B.E. in 1945, knighted in 1953, made a life peer in 1966, and named a Knight of the Garter in 1979 (b. June 22, 1910, India—d. Nov. 7/8, 1998, Henley-on-Thames, Eng.).

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