Mike Banks (mountaineer)
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Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Michael Edward Borg Banks MBE (22 December 1922 – 9 February 2013) was a British soldier, adventurer, climber and author.[1]
Early life
Banks was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, on 22 December 1922.[1] His father Humphrey Borg, an engineer, and mother Elsie (nee Millicent) worked in Malta, where Banks was schooled until returning to Chippenham when he was 14.[1] He adopted the surname Banks by deed poll, in adulthood.[1] Banks was a vegetarian.[2]
Career and later life
Banks joined the Royal Marines, with a commission, in January 1942.[1] He was a member of the British North Greenland Expedition (1952 to 1954).
He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 25 November 1954.[3] He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1959.[1]
In 1958, he made the first ascent of Rakaposhi with Tom Patey as part of a British-Pakistani joint forces Himalayan expedition.[4]
At the age of 77, in May 2000, he climbed the Scottish sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy becoming the oldest person to have done so.[5]
He died in Bristol on 9 February 2013, aged 90.[1]
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