Edmund Hugh Lewis Wigram

Edmund Hugh Lewis Wigram (4 July 1911 – 2 December 1945) was a British obstetrician and a mountaineer who was a member of two of the early British Everest expeditions.

Early life Wigram was born in India in 1911. His maternal grandfather was Sir Thomas Charles Dewey Bt. He attended Marlborough College.

Numerous members of Wigram's family were climbers At Cambridge he studied medicine and became the President of the University Mountaineering Club for 1931–32, he was elected to the Alpine Club in 1933.

Everest expeditions Wigram took part in both the 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition and the 1936 British Mount Everest expedition

He was the youngest member of the 1935 expedition. They came away convinced that an attempt on the summit of Everest by that ridge was "utterly impracticable in its lower section" (, Looking back on the expedition Tilman commented that "E.H.L.) Wigram and I had degenerated into mere peak baggers, collecting seventeen all over 20,000feet", amongst those peaks was the Khartaphu. Wigram and Tilman also got to within of the summit of North Peak of Changtse, a peak immediately north of Everest, before they were turned back by very deep and soft snow. In 1936 the weather conditions were worse than experienced on any previous Everest expedition, several members of the party, including Wigram, reached the North Col at but heavy snowfall, due to the early arrival of the monsoon, made further progress unjustifiable. (, Over the winter of 1943-44, he was posted with the Lovat Scouts to Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies as medical officer and mountaineering instructor.)

Death Wigram survived the war although his elder brother, Aidan Frederick who was also an active climber, died in service leaving a wife and two children. Less than two months after the war's end Wigram was also dead, also leaving a wife and two children.

On 1 December 1945 he was climbing the route 'Faith', with his wife, on the Idwal Slabs (Rhiwiau Caws), Wales. For an unknown reason he fell from about three pitches up the climb on "what was, to him, easy ground". Although the rope caught round a projecting rock and held him, he had incurred internal injuries after a fall of sixty or seventy feet and he died next day in the hospital at Bangor. He is buried at Capel Curig in the graveyard of St Julitta's Church. thumb Tombstone of Edmund Wigram (1911-1945), St Julitta's church, Capel Curig.