Hamish MacInnes
Acting
Born July 7, 1930, Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway, Scotland
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.
Appearances as themselves (7)
- 2019Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes — Self
- 2001The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations — Self
- 1992The Old Man of Hoy — Self
- 1967How They Climbed the Old Man of Hoy — Self
- 1967The Old Man of Hoy — Self
- 1965Le Cervin en direct — Self
- Live from the Matterhorn — Self