George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 – May 28, 2000) was an American physicist,[2] biologist and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley.
In the 1940s, he made first ascents of four peaks in the area around Mount Waddington in the Coast Range of British Columbia, on an HMC expedition.
[7] Bell then moved to more significant objectives, organizing the expedition in 1950 that made the first ascent of Yerupajá, 21,769 feet (6,635 m), in the Huayhuash mountain range of Peru, one of the most difficult and dangerous peaks in the Andes.
He returned to Peru in 1952 to make the first ascent of another steep and difficult peak of the Peruvian Andes, Salcantay in the Vilcabamba mountain range.
In 1953, Bell took part in the Third American Karakoram Expedition to K2 and was one of five climbers who fell during a failed attempt of the first ascent of the peak.