1997Nominee
Best Performance
Hillary and Tenzing - Everest and After
George Band
Actor
Taiwan
February 2, 1929
Biography
George Christopher Band OBE was an English mountaineer. He was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to ascend the mountain. In 1955, he and Joe Brown were the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world.
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Nominee
Best Performance
Climbing
1955Nominee
Best Performance
The Ascent of Kangchenjunga