and vice chairman of the Mountain Heritage Trust 2014–2017. He was an honorary member of the Climbers Club, the Alpine Club and the American Alpine Club. He was a vice president of the BMC between 1994 and 1997 and went on to become a patron of the BMC in 2015. Career highlights Highlights of Scott's climbing career include: 1965: Tarso Tiroko, Tibesti mountains of Chad with Ray Gillies, Clive Davies and Pete Warrington 1967: South face of Koh-i-Bandaka, Hindu Kush with Ray Gillies 1970: Salathe Wall of El Capitan with Peter Habeler 1972: Mount Asgard, Baffin Island with Dennis Hennek, Paul Nunn and Paul Braithwaite 1974: Changabang, first ascent with Bonington, Haston et al. 1974: Pic Lenin, Pamirs, with Clive Rowland, Guy Lee, Braithwaite 1975: Southwest face of Everest, with Haston 1976: South face Denali, Alaska, with Haston 1977: Baintha Brakk (more commonly known as The Ogre), Karakoram, with Bonington, and descent with both legs broken at the ankle with the selfless help of Mo Anthoine and Clive Rowland 1978: Mount Waddington, Canada, with Rob Wood 1979: North ridge of Kangchenjunga, with Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker. 1979: Nuptse, North face, Nepal, with Georges Bettembourg, Brian Hall and Alan Rouse 1981: Shivling, India, with Bettembourg, Greg Child and Rick White 1982: Shishapangma, Tibet, south face, with Alex MacIntyre and Roger Baxter-Jones 1983: Lobsang Spire, Karakoram, with Child and Peter Thexton 1984: Chamlang, East ridge, Nepal, with Michael Scott, Jean Afanassieff and Ang Phurba 1988: Jitchu Drake, Bhutan, with Sharavati Prabhu and Victor Saunders 1992: Nanga Parbat, Central Mazeno Peaks, with Sergey Efimov, Alan Hinkes, Ang Phurba and Nga Temba. 1998: Drohmo, South pillar, Nepal, with Roger Mear 2000: Targo Ri, Central Tibet, with Julian Freeman-Attwood and Richard Cowper Personal life In 1962 he married Janice Brook, with whom he had three children, Michael, Martha and Rosie. The marriage was dissolved in 1988. In 1993 he married Indian climber, Sharavati Prabhu, with whom he had two sons, Arran and Euan. The marriage was dissolved in 2003. In 2007 he married Patricia Lang, residing together in the Northern Fells of the Lake District. In March 2020, Scott was diagnosed with inoperable cerebral lymphoma. He died at his home in Cumbria, England of the disease on 7 December 2020, aged 79. Books He authored: Doug Scott, Big Wall Climbing, Doug Scott and Alex MacIntyre, The Shishapangma Expedition, Doug Scott, Himalayan Climber: A Lifetime's