
Event Description
Noyce started teaching at Malvern College in 1946, where he helped to form the Senior Scout troop in that same year, and he was actively involved in it for three years he was at the college, which included acting as chairman of the Laletes Society, which saw a “dramatic increase in members” discussing academic and political papers.
He also helped with the felling of several trees in the Firs in 1947.
It was also during his time at the College that he wrote and published his book, Of Mountains and Men (c. 1949).
After he departed in 1950 to teach at Charterhouse, he married a Miss Rosemary Davis, who was on the Girls’ College staff, and returned regularly to give talks on climbing and mountaineering, which he continued to do until 1961.
He was chosen to be a member of the expedition to Mount Everest in 1953. In the event he was ‘Number Three’ on the summit team and was first reserve if Hillary or Tenzing had dropped out.
Noyce died in a mountaineering accident together with the 23-year-old Scot Robin Smith in 1962 after a successful ascent of Mount Garmo (6,595m), in the Pamirs.
Image © Kate Wrigglesworth