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Wilfrid Noyce

Cuthbert Wilfrid Francis Noyce (31 December 1917 – 24 July 1962) (usually known as Wilfrid Noyce (often misspelt as 'Wilfred'),[1] some sources give third forename as Frank) was an English mountaineer and author. He was a member of the 1953 British Expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest.

Personal information

Mountaineer, writer

(1917-12-31)31 December 1917
Simla, Punjab Province, British India
(now Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India)

24 July 1962(1962-07-24) (aged 44)
Mount Garmo, Tajik SSR (now in Tajikistan)

  • British

First ascent of Machapuchare, May 1957
First ascent of Singu Chuli, June 1957

1953 Everest Expedition[edit]

Background and approach[edit]

Noyce was a climbing member of the 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest that made the first ascent of the mountain. According to the expedition's leader John Hunt, in the section of his The Ascent of Everest in which he outlined the qualities of his team members:

Scholar Mountaineers: Pioneers of Parnassus, London: Dennis Dobson, 1950

Michael Angelo: a poem in twelve parts, with epilogue, London: William Heinemann, 1953

Mountains and Men, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947, 2nd ed. 1954

South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, London: William Heinemann, 1954

The Gods Are Angry, World Publishing, 1957

Snowdon Biography, London: J. M. Dent, 1957

The Springs of Adventure, London: John Murray, 1958

Climbing the Fish's Tail, London, 1958

Poems, London: William Heinemann, 1960

They Survived: A Study of the Will to Live, London: William Heinemann, 1962

To the Unknown Mountain: The Ascent of Trivor, London: William Heinemann, 1962

The Alps, London: Putnam, 1963

World Atlas of Mountaineering, London: Macmillan, 1970 (with Ian MacNorrin)

(as translator, with John Hunt) Starlight and Storm by , Kaye, 1968

Gaston Rébuffat

Commemoration[edit]

The "Wilfrid Noyce Community Centre" in Godalming, Surrey – where Charterhouse is located – is named after him.[39]