Douglas Keith Scott was an English mountaineer. He was on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. He pioneered big wall climbing on Baffin Island, Mount Kenya and in the Karakoram.
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Douglas Keith Scott was an English mountaineer. He was on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. Scott was diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and died of the disease in December 2020. He started climbing at the age of 13, his interest sparked by seeing climbers on the Black Rocks in Derbyshire whilst hiking with the Scouts. He pioneered big wall climbing on Baffin Island, Mount Kenya and in the Karakoram, famously on The Ogre with Chris Bonington, and later on Shivling in the Indian Himalayas. In 2005 he was presented with the Golden Eagle Award by the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild.
He became the third recipient of the John Muir Trust Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his mountaineering accomplishments and commitment to conservation and supporting mountain people and mountain environments around the world. In 1991 he raised the funds and organised the installation of 17 fresh-water standpipes in Askole, the last settlement before K2, that reduced infant mortality by half. He founded the charity Community Action Nepal, and spent much of his time fundraising for this cause and regularly visited some of the 60 projects out in Nepal.
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