Douglas Keith Scott was an English mountaineer and climbing author, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. In receiving on
Baintha Brakk or The Ogre is a steep, craggy mountain, 7,285 metres high, in the Panmah Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range. It is located in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It is famous f
Doug Scott
…or pure Alpine style. He pioneered big wall climbing on Baffin Island, Mount Kenya and in the Karakoram, famously on the "fearsome Karakoram peak" The Ogre in Pakistan with Chris Bonington, and later on Shivling in the Indian Himalayas. Abseiling from the summit of The Ogre, Scott slipped and broke both…
Baintha Brakk I (center right) and II (far right, clouded), with Ogre's Thumb spire in left foreground