Colin Crawford (mountaineer)

Colin Grant Crawford (3 June 1890 – 15 August 1959) was a British mountaineer and civil servant.

He was a part of the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition led by Charles Granville Bruce, and won the Olympic gold medal for alpinism in 1924 along with other team members.

[1][2] Crawford was educated at Clifton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

With Harold Raeburn he reconnoitred the world’s third highest mountain, Kanchenjunga, in 1920.

[3] He was a member of the 1922 Mount Everest expedition, serving as a transport officer.