Edward Felix Norton

Edward Felix Norton (* February 21, 1884; † November 3, 1954 ) was a British Army officer and mountaineers.

He was educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. He joined the artillery the Indian troops and served in the First World War. He was brought up by his grandfather Alfred Wills in the Alps to mountain climbing.

His experience and knowledge made ​​him to the British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924 to participate. In 1924 he took over the expedition line when the original director Brigadier Charles G. Bruce fell ill and had to leave. Norton reached record heights in both expeditions, which were only surpassed in 1952, when a Swiss expedition in Nepal - side came to below the South Summit.

Its height of 8573 m in the later named after him, " Norton Couloir ", the Steiltal east of the summit pyramid in the north wall, was a world record, which had stock for nearly 30 years. He had reached this height without oxygen, which made him a role model for Reinhold Messner, who in his solo ascent in 1980 took a route close to Norton's preferred wall trusses was.

Norton was praised high on the mountain for his services after the disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine.

Norton later served as an instructor at the Staff College in India and England, and he commanded the Royal Artillery and later the Madras District in the 1930s. From 1940 to 1941 he was governor and commander in Hong Kong. He went in 1942 in Pension.

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• TG Longstaff, Norton, Edward Felix (1884-1954) ', rev. Audrey Salkeld, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

• Mountaineers (United Kingdom)
• Briton
• Born in 1884
• Died in 1954
• Man