George Band (1929 -) is a Alpiniste Britannique. After having begun the alpinism in the the Alps whereas it was student with Cambridge, it was youngest of forwarding on the Everest of 1953. Two years later, in 1955, Joe Brown and become to him the first mountaineers to make a success of the rise of the Kangchenjunga. By respect for the religious Belief S of the People S of the Nepal and the Sikkim, they stopped a few meters before the real top.

Following these first successes in alpinism, George Band passed the essence of her professional life in the Prospection of the Pétrole and the Gaz. In 2005, whereas it was still active at 76 years, Band made the voyage to the base camp of Kangchenjunga to the Nepal. George Band is the president of the alpine Club and the British Mountaineering Council and always travels throughout the world.