Dougal Haston (1940-1977) was a Scottish mountaineer born in Currie, Edinburgh. Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Currie is a suburb of the Scottish capital Edinburgh. ... Edinburgh (pronounced ; Scottish Gaelic: ) is the capital of Scotland and its second-largest city. ...

Climbing achievements

In 1970, with Don Whillans, he was the first to climb the south face of Annapurna on an expedition led by Chris Bonington and in 1975, with Doug Scott, he was the first to climb Mount Everest by the south-west face, also on an expedition led by Bonington. His memorial in Edinburgh mistakenly claims he was the first Briton to climb the north face of the Eiger. In fact, this honour went to Bonington and Ian Clough in 1962, but Haston was the first Briton to climb the Nordwand by the direttissima, or most direct route, on the first attempt in 1966 with the American John Harlin. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Don Whillans (18 May 1933 - 4 August 1985) was an English rock-climber and mountaineer. ... Annapurna is a series of peaks in the Himalaya, a 55-km-long massif whose highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8,091 m (26,538 ft), making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the 14 eight-thousanders. It is located east of a great... Sir Chris Bonington Sir Christian John Storey Bonington (born August 6, 1934 in Hampstead), is a British mountaineer. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Doug Scott CBE (born 29th May 1941) is British mountaineer famous for the first acent of the Southwest Face Mount Everest on 25th September 1975, and was the first Briton to climb Everest. ... Everest redirects here. ... For other uses, see Eiger (disambiguation). ... Ian Clough (1939-1970) was a British mountaineer who was killed on an expedition to climb the south face of the Himalayan massif Annapurna. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... John Harlin (full name John Elvis Harlin II) (1934-1966) was an American mountaineer who was killed making an ascent of the north face of the Eiger. ...

Fatal accident

Later, he became director of the International Climbing School at Leysin, where he was killed by an avalanche while skiing alone on the North-East face of La Riondaz to the Col Luisset. Sadly, it seems that he had been choked by his own scarf. He is buried at Leysin. Leysin is a commune in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Aigle. ... A Himalayan avalanche. ... Deep powder skiing Alpine skier carving a turn on piste Members of the U.S. Air Force skiing (and snowboarding) at Keystone Resorts 14th Annual SnoFest This article is about snow skiing. ...

Quotes

"In winter, the mountains seem to regain their primitive, virginal pride, and no more do the howling, littering summer masses tramp their more accessible slopes." — Dougal Haston quoted in Jeff Connors' biography (p 104) This is an article on biographies. ...

"...that most impenetrable of big walls, the mind of Dougal Haston." — from a review of Connors' biography.[1]

Bibliography

• Dougal Haston: In High Places, Cassell, London, 1973
• Dougal Haston: Calculated Risk, Diadem Books, London, 1979
• Jeff Connor (2002): Douglas Haston: The Philosophy of Risk, Canongate Books, Edinburgh, ISBN 1-84195-215-X