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Tom Longstaff was a tough and adventurous British explorer and mountaineer (and Doctor) very active in the early 20th century. In 1907 he famously made the first ever ascent of a 7000m peak by climbing Trisul in the Indian Himalaya. Prior to that in 1905 he had explored a possible route in to the Nanda Devi Sancturay and made a bold foray up onto the col, that would later bear his name, to e... more>