Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL (born 6 August 1934) is a British mountaineer whose career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest.
Christian is a unisex given name. It originated as a baptismal name used by persons of the Christian religion. It derives from the Latin Christianus, meaning "follower of Christ." It has been used as a given name since the Middle Ages.
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew is an upcoming epic high fantasy film written for the screen, directed, and co-produced by Greta Gerwig, based on the 1955 novel The Magician's Nephew, the sixth published and first chronological novel in the children's...
Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new universities created in the...
The 1970 British Annapurna South Face expedition was a Himalayan climb that was the first to take a deliberately difficult route up the face of an 8,000-metre peak. At the time that the expedition set out, in March 1970, the only 8000ers which had...
The 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces rather than along its ridges. In the post-monsoon season Chris Bonington led the expedition that used rock...
The Cumbria County History Trust (CCHT) is a charity launched in May 2010 to coordinate and gather resources for the Victoria County History of Cumbria project, a collaborative community project created to research and write the histories of all...
Rangrik Rang is a mountain in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh in India. Rangrik Airport, the proposed airport will be situated near Rangrik Rang's base.
The Sepu Kangri (Tibetan: བསངས་ཕུ་གངས་རི, Wylie: bsangs phu gangs ri, THL: sang pu gang ri; also Sapu Mountain from Chinese) is a mountain in Biru County, Nagqu prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region in China. The mountain is 285 kilometres (177 mi)...
Christian Almer (29 March 1826 – 17 May 1898) was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascensionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alpinism. Almer was born and died in Grindelwald, Canton of...
