Geoffrey Hastings

Geoffrey Hastings FRGS (1860–1941) was a British mountaineer who made numerous first ascents of rock-faces and peaks in the Lake District, the Alps and Norway, and helped to lay the foundations for mountain-climbing as a sport. He, Albert Mummery and J. Norman Collie were authoritatively considered to be the finest climbing trio of their day[1] and were the first to attempt to reach the summit of an eight-thousander in the Himalaya.

  1. ^ W. P. Haskett Smith, Alpine Journal, Vol. 53 (1941), p. 70. T. G. Longstaff called them "the strongest trio of English mountaineers that ever attacked a high mountain": "Mountain Sickness and its Probable Causes", The Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. III (1911), p. 93.