Tom Longstaff
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Tom George Longstaff was an English medical doctor, explorer and mountaineer, most famous for being the first person to climb a summit of over 7,000 metres in elevation, Trisul, in the India/Pakistan
Photograph from "The assault on Mount Everest, 1922, C. G. Bruce, facing page 46 "The Expedition at base Camp." Left to right, back row: Henry Morshead, Geoffrey Bruce, John Noel, Arthur Wakefield, Howard Somervell, John Morris, Teddy Norton. Front row: George Mallory, George Finch,Tom Longstaff, Charles Bruce, Bill Strutt, Colin Crawford.
Achiltibuie
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Achiltibuie is a long linear village in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, on the Coigach coast of northwestern Scotland, overlooking Badentarbet Bay to the west. Loch Broom and the Summer Isles lie to the
Tom Longstaff
…met Charmian, his second wife, in 1938, when one of his daughters commissioned her to paint his portrait. From the early 1940s he and Charmian lived at Achiltibuie, in the Highlands of Scotland, where he died at the age of eighty-nine on 26 June 1964. Longstaff, Tom George in Who's Who: https://doi.org/10.1093/w…
The Post Office in Achiltibuie