Michael Westmacott
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Michael Westmacott was a prominent mountaineer, born in 1925.
Westmacott was a member of the 1953 Everest expedition led by John Hunt. He was educated at Radley School and Oxford University.
During World War II Westmacott served as an officer of sappers.
He climbed extensively in the United Kingdom and the European Alps prior to Everest, and later opened new routes in Peru, the Hindu Kush and Alaska.
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