How an Orange man could have been the first to conquer Mount Everest

By Dave Neil
Updated July 15 2015 - 9:38am, first published 4:30am
A LIFE LIVED IN THE CLOUDS: George Ingle Finch, the Orange-born man who for 31 years climbed as high as any man in the world.
A LIFE LIVED IN THE CLOUDS: George Ingle Finch, the Orange-born man who for 31 years climbed as high as any man in the world.

EYES up or down. Always up or down. Drawn up to the summit of Mount Canobolas, dominating the family farm's southern horizon; focused down on the beakers and Bunsen burners that set his inquiring mind free.

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