George Finch (chemist)
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George Ingle Finch (4 August 1888 – 22 November 1970) was a chemist and mountaineer. Born in Australia, and educated in German-speaking Switzerland, he was professor in London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1938 and won its Hughes Medal in 1944.
A member of the second British expedition under General Charles Granville Bruce to Mount Everest, on May 23, 1922 Finch and Captain C. Geoffrey Bruce reached an altitude of 27,300 ft on the north ridge before retreating. [1] In the Alps, Finch was on the first ascent of the North Face Diagonal or 'Finch Route' on the Dent d'Hérens, which he climbed with T. G. B. Forster and R. Peto on August 2, 1923.
