sailing voyages. Bill Tilman was born on 14 February 1898 in Wallasey, Cheshire, the son of a wealthy sugar merchant John Hinkes Tilman and his wife Adeline...
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decades of attempts, no one had been able to enter. In 1934 Eric Shipton, Bill Tilman and their three accomplished Sherpas succeeded in finding a climbing...
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Tilman Joseph Fertitta (born 1957) is an American billionaire businessman and television personality. He is the chairman, CEO, and owner of Landry's, Inc...
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Kenya's community of Europeans where he met his future climbing partners Bill Tilman and Percy Wyn-Harris. Together with Wyn-Harris, he climbed the twin peaks...
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woodcarver Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger (born 1963), German actor, director, and producer Saint Tilman (c. 608–702), French priest, abbot and hermit Bill Tilman...
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viable. The Tilman Trophy has been a keenly contested section of the race. The trophy is named after the famed Harold William (Bill) Tilman CBE, DSO, MC...
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frostbite ruled out any mountaineering but in 1936 he was selected by Bill Tilman for the British–American Himalayan Expedition to Nanda Devi. Because...
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reached and described by mountaineers Eric Shipton & Bill Tilman; 1936: Mountaineers Bill Tilman & Noel Odell climbed Nanda Devi; 1939: The basin established...
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Led by Bill Tilman, the 1938 British Mount Everest expedition was a low-key, low-cost expedition which was unlucky in encountering a very early monsoon...
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and higher, all without supplemental oxygen. In 1936 Noel Odell with Bill Tilman climbed Nanda Devi, at the time the highest mountain climbed. He was...
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