First Flight Over Mount Everest

Date: April 3, 1933 • Location: Rome, Italy

Lord Clydesdale and David McIntyre undertook the first successful flight over Mount Everest.

Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, was a Scottish aristocrat, politician and aviator. He was the first man to fly over Mount Everest. A member of the Unionist Party, he sat in the House of Commons and later in the House of Lords.