Gordon Noel Humphreys

Gordon Noel Humphreys (1883–1966) was a British born surveyor, pilot, botanist, explorer and doctor.

During World War I he served as a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps, was shot down and spent his internment training himself in botany.

[1] After the war it was his survey work and exploration of the Ruwenzori Range in Uganda that brought him to the attention of Edward Shackleton.

Consisting of Shackleton, photographer and biologist A. W. Moore (sometimes listed as Morris), H. W. Stallworthy of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, geologist Robert Bentham and ornithologist David Haig-Thomas, along with their Greenland Inuit guides, Inutuk and Nukapinguaq, they set up camp at Etah, Greenland, in 1934.

The expedition, led by Hugh Ruttledge, reached a height of 23,000 ft (7,010 m) on the North Col.

Humphreys in 1936