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1910Jun, 22

John Hunt, Baron Hunt

John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1998)
Brigadier Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt, (22 June 1910 – 7 November 1998), styled as Sir John Hunt from 1953 to 1966, was a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest.

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