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Percy Wyn-Harris
Sir Percy Wyn-Harris, KCMG, MBE, KStJ (born Percy Wynne Harris on 24 August 1903 in Acton, Middlesex; died 25 February 1979 in Petersfield, Hampshire) was an English mountaineer, political administrator, and yachtsman. He was Governor of the Gambia from 1949 to 1958 and was knighted in 1952.〔Kirk-Greene, A. H. M., (Harris, Sir Percy Wyn (1903–1979) ), in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' online (subscription required), also published in book form by Oxford University Press, 2004〕
== Early life and mountaineering ==
Wyn-Harris was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,〔 where as an undergraduate he was a member of the University Mountaineering Club.
In 1925, he made the first ascent without guides of the Brouillard Ridge on Mont Blanc. In 1929, while serving with the Colonial Service in Kenya, Wyn-Harris met mountaineer Eric Shipton and together they climbed the twin peaks of Mount Kenya, making the first ascent of Nelion, the secondary summit. A member of Hugh Ruttledge's 1933 Mount Everest expedition, Wyn-Harris reached Edward Norton's record height of 8,573 m (28,126 feet). At around 8,460 m (27,920 ft), he discovered an ice axe, which was almost certainly a remnant of Mallory and Irvine's ill-fated attempt at a first ascent in 1924. Wyn-Harris returned to Everest in 1936, in an expedition again led by Hugh Ruttledge.
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