Maps and Exploration

George Lowe (mountaineer)

Wallace George Lowe (15 January 1924 – 20 March 2013), known as George Lowe, was a New Zealand-born mountaineer, explorer, film director and educator. He was the last surviving member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition, during which his friend Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first known people to summit the world's highest peak.

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• ▸C. Granville Wyche House
• ▸Chicago School of Psychology
• ▸Admiralty chart

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