The last survivor of the 1950 Scottish Himalayan Expedition has died.

Douglas Scott, a renowned photographer and broadcaster, was one of four who spent four months trekking through the Himalaya and conquering seven peaks with fellow Glasgow climbers Tom Weir, Tom MacKinnon and Bill Murray. He also climbed extensively in the High Atlas mountains of north Africa.

Forever destined in later life to be confused with his more famous Everest-bagging namesake, he became hooked on mountaineering after glancing the snow-tipped Campsie Fells from the top of a Glasgow tramcar while on the way to school.

He was posted to India during the Second World War and took a trip to the Himalaya during two weeks break. This ignited his interest in serious mountaineering and after coming back to Britain, he persuaded his three climbing friends to mount the first Scottish post-war climbing expedition to the area.

The expedition is recalled in Murray’s The Scottish Himalayan Expedition.

Scott went on to climb in Norway, Kurdistan, Greenland and east Africa.

Only last year, the Spean Bridge-based mountaineer, then in his 90s, put on an exhibition of his photography at the Ben Nevis Distillery in Fort William.