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Bill Norton was brought up with exploration in his veins. His father, E.F. Norton, was a leader of the 1924 Everest team and reached the height of 28,126 ft without oxygen, the highest anyone had ever climbed at that time and a record that lasted for 50 years. Bill’s great-grandfather was a founder of the Alpine Club. It is not therefore surprising that Bill’s adventurous spirit lasted the whole of his life. One of his first adventures was to the Elburz mountains in northern Persia, in 1956 while he was an undergraduate at Cambridge, and, the following year, he described it in a lecture to the Society.Footnote1 The list of the birds he recorded during the expedition was subsequently published International Journal of Avian Science.
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