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 Topic - Honoured Climbers/Mountaineers - A List
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 by - Anonymous on - 07 Jan 2008 - 82.152.95.85 whois? |
Congratulations to Pat Littlejohn for being awarded an OBE.
The other threads on this subject got me thinking; why can’t we simply congratulate someone without denigrating the achievement of others? Also I wondered how many climbers have been given an award, so after a bit of research on t’internet I’ve started off a list of climbers/mountaineers who’ve received an award under the UK honours system.
If anyone can add to this any missing dates or reasons for the award, or indeed any climbers/mountaineers missing from the list then please do. It would be nice to keep it to the facts rather than discussing the various merits of the awards!
Climbers/Mountaineers Honoured Under the UK Honours System
* Gertrude Bell CBE,
Eric Blakeley MBE awarded 2004 for ‘Services to mountaineering, sport and charity in Jersey’,
Annabelle Bond OBE awarded 2006 for ‘Services to mountaineering and to the Eve Appeal’,
Sir Christian Bonington CBE received a knighthood in 1996 for ‘Services to mountaineering’,
* Norman Croucher OBE awarded for ‘Services to disabled people’,
Allen Fyffe MBE awarded 2002 for ‘Services to mountaneering’,
Sir Edmund Hillary KG, ONZ, KBE awarded a KBE after the successful 1953 Everest expedition,
Alan Hinkes OBE awarded 2006 for ‘Services to sport [mountaineering]’,
Sir John Hunt KG, CBE, DSO, PC Made a Knight Bachelor after the successful 1953 Everest expedition,
Pat Littlejohn OBE awarded 2008 for ‘Services to mountaineering’,
* Sir Jack Longland,
Tenzing Norgay GM awarded the George Medal after the successful 1953 Everest expedition,
Doug Scott CBE awarded 1994,
* Sir Leslie Stephen,
Rebecca Stephens MBE,
* Bill Tilman CBE, DSO, MC and Bar,
Thomas Graville Whittaker MBE awarded 2006 for ‘Services to mountaineering and to people with disabilities’.
* = Climber/mountaineer whose award(s) is(are) not necessarily for achievements in mountaineering. (The list assumes the Sirs have been given their title rather than inherited it.)
Well done to them all! |
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