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 and were the first to attempt to reach the summit of an eight-thousander in the Himalaya.

The standards of mountaineering established by the end of the nineteenth century by Hastings, Albert Mummery, William Cecil Slingsby and J. Norman Collie (called "the famous four" by their contemporary R. L. G. Irving[47]) have been assessed as "well ahead of those of other Britons climbing at the time and at the forefront of amateur climbing worldwide".[48]

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