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Portrait of the renowned British mountaineer, adventurer, lecturer and writer Sir Chris Bonnington photographed at his home called Badger Hill, in Wigton, Cumbria, England. Bonnington is seen wearing a fleece against a backdrop holding an ice-axe used on a previous Himalayan mountain expedition. Bonnigton is best known for his 1975 expedition to conquer Mount Everest though he was formerly an army officer in the Royal Tank Regiment before making mountaineering and the writing of these sometimes tragic outcomes a career.

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Portrait of the renowned British mountaineer, adventurer, lecturer and writer Sir Chris Bonnington photographed at his home called Badger Hill, in Wigton, Cumbria, England. Bonnington is seen wearing a fleece against a backdrop holding an ice-axe used on a previous Himalayan mountain expedition. Bonnigton is best known for his 1975 expedition to conquer Mount Everest though he was formerly an army officer in the Royal Tank Regiment before making mountaineering and the writing of these sometimes tragic outcomes a career.