Chris Bonington
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Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL is a British mountaineer whose career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest.
Sir Chris Bonington
Aiguille du Dru in 2006
Grandes Jorasses
Lancaster University chaplaincy centre spire and logo
Old Man of Hoy
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The Old Man of Hoy is a 137-metre sea stack on Hoy, part of the Orkney archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. Formed from Old Red Sandstone, it is one of the tallest stacks in the United Kingdom
Chris Bonington
…died on 24 July 2014 from motor neuron disease (MND), inspiring Bonington to support MND research. On his 80th birthday, he made an ascent of the Old Man of Hoy to raise funds for this purpose. On Saturday 23 April 2016, Bonington married Loreto McNaught-Davis, the widow of mountaineer and television presenter…
The Old Man of Hoy from the north
The Old Man of Hoy in 1817, when it had two legs
The Old Man of Hoy, 2004
Highline walk of Alex Schulz