Bonington
Americannoun
noun
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Sir Chris ( tian John Storey ). born 1934, British mountaineer and writer; led 1970 Annapurna I and 1975 Everest expeditions; reached Everest summit in 1985
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Richard Parkes . 1801–28, British painter of landscapes and historical scenes
Example Sentences
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It is popular with climbers and was first climbed by the UK's most famous mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington in 1966.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023
Their ways caught on quickly, though, so that, by the 1820s, landscape artists whose names we do know — Camille Corot, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Constable — were working the same way.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2020
Sir Chris Bonington, a British mountaineering pioneer, looks happy and healthy at 80.
From Forbes ● Apr. 9, 2015
Unlike Bloomfield Bonington, Ridgeon cannot make an objective medical decision because he is not at all well.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
Even the unsinkable sank, and what are foolish mortals like Weathers, Pittman, Fischer, Lopsang, Tenzing, Messner, Bonington in the face of the "Mother Goddess. "
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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