1965Nominee
Best Performance
Le Cervin en direct
Hamish MacInnes
Actor
Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway, Scotland
July 7, 1930
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1967Nominee
Best Performance
How They Climbed the Old Man of Hoy
1967Nominee
Best Performance
The Old Man of Hoy
Career Highlights
1992Highlight
Best Performance
The Old Man of Hoy
Highlight
Best Performance
En direct du Cervin