C. R. Cooke

Lieutenant-Colonel Conrad Reginald Cooke, OBE (31 August 1901 – 27 December 1996) was an English early Himalayan mountaineer.

[5] On 18 November 1935, he reached the summit of Kabru North without oxygen, after his Swiss companion Gustav Schoberth succumbed to altitude sickness at their highest camp.

[6] He was selected to lead a post-monsoon expedition to ascend Mount Everest in late 1940, but plans were shelved by the outbreak of World War II.

[11] In June 1944 while Director of Line Construction, Posts and Telegraphs, New Delhi, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Hertfordshire, which among many other things made and supplied, to his own original design, the high altitude cookers which were used in the first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.