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Tony Astill
TONY ASTILL lives with his wife Elaine in the New Forest.
In 1963 he joined the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary as a Police Cadet and spent 1966 with Voluntary Service Overseas as a housemaster at St. Christophers School in Swaziland. This helped him attain the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award and later he became a Housemaster, PTI and instructor of oout door pursuits at the Hampshire Police Cadet Training School. He was also a temporary instructor at the Outward Bound School, Ullswater and gained the Mountain Leadership Certificate.
A second career followed with Mirror Group Newspapers.
Now his interest in mountains has become his profession; dealing in old mountaineering books and fine mountain paintings.
In 1995 he accompanied George Band, our Chairman, on a 40th anniversary trek to Kangchenjunga and in 1998 on another to the east of Everest which added to 12 years of research and writing his self-published book 'Mount Everest : The Reconnaissance 1935' which won the coveted James Monroe Thorington award for best book in mountaineering history at the Banff Mountain Festival in 2006.
Tony is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an associate of the Alpine Club and a member of the Himalayan Club.
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