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About Tom Stobart
- Thomas Ralph (Tom) Stobart OBE (10 March 1914 – 28 November 1980) was a British cameraman, film-maker and author, notable for having shot The Conquest of Everest, the official film of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition.
- Stobart was born in Darlington and was educated at St Bedes School near Whitehaven, Cumberland.
- He attended Sheffield University and Cambridge University where he studied zoology.
- He died at Hassocks, Sussex aged 66y. He made Army instructional films in India in World War II, went on a 1946 expedition to the Himalayas, and on an expedition to North Queensland.
- He made the official film of the 1949-50 Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSX).
- There was wider public interest in the Everest expedition, and a need for sponsors.
- Countryman Films Ltd was one of the 1953 expedition’s sponsors.
- On the expedition, John Hunt recalls him "recounting some thrilling if slightly improbable experience with wild game in Africa, or giving a vivid description of the Far South." He had a "seemingly endless repertoire of adventure stories" George Lowe had understudied him as a reserve photographer, and is credited as the director of The Conquest of Everest (1953) Later he went on an expedition to find the Abominable Snowman, wrote a biography in 1957 "I Take Pictures" and wrote two books on cookery.
- Two later films were Adventure On (1956) and The Great Monkey Ripoff (1979).
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