Hamish MacInnes
Scottish mountaineer
Died when: 90 years 138 days (1084 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Hamish MacInnes OBE BEM FRSGS (7 July 1930 – 22 November 2020) was a Scottish mountaineer, explorer, mountain search and rescuer, and author.He has been described as the "father of modern mountain rescue in Scotland".
He is credited with inventing the first all-metal ice-axe and an eponymous lightweight foldable alloy stretcher called MacInnes stretcher, widely used in mountain and helicopter rescue.
He was a mountain safety advisor to a number of major films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Eiger Sanction and The Mission.
His 1972 International Mountain Rescue Handbook is considered a manual in the mountain search and rescue discipline.
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