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George Lowe
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New Zealand mountain climber and explorer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Trouble with Seattle
- The Minister's Son
- Josef Holbrooke and His Work (Library of Music and Musicians)
- La conquista del Everest
- From Everest to the South Pole
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Film & TV
Hastings, New Zealand
Wallace George Lowe was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1924. As a young man, he spent his holidays working as an assistant mountaineering guide in the Southern Alps. Here, he befriended famed New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary. Lowe joined Hillary on many mountaineering trips through the 1950s and was part of the team that helped Hillary climb Mt. Everest in 1953. Having a side interest in…
Known for
- Hillary and Tenzing - Everest and After — self1997
- NZAC Himalayan Expedition Barun Valley 1954 — self1954
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- Listeners
- 67
- Total plays
- 450
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Hastings
- Place of death
- Ripley
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition
- Sport
- mountaineering
- Image
- Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Willoughby Norrie, and George Lowe at Government House, Wellington, 1953.jpg
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- George Lowe (mountaineer)
- date of death
- 2013-03-20
- date of birth
- 1924-01-15
- manner of death
- natural causes
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