Hamish MacInnes
- Acting
- July 7, 1930 · Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway, Scotland
- November 22, 2020
Biography
Hamish MacInnes OBE BEM FRSGS (born McInnes) 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes · Self
- The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations · Self
- The Old Man of Hoy · Self
- How They Climbed the Old Man of Hoy · Self
- The Old Man of Hoy · Self
- The Matterhorn Live · Self
- Live from the Matterhorn · Self