# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hamish-macinnes
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:33:54.636Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hamish-macinnes"
name: "Hamish MacInnes"
slug: "hamish-macinnes"
description: "Hamish MacInnes was a Scottish mountaineer, explorer, mountain search and rescuer, and author. He has been described as the \"father of modern mountain rescue in Scotland\". He is credited with inventing the first all-metal ice-axe and an eponymous lightweight foldable alloy stretcher called MacInnes stretcher, widely used in mountain and helicopter rescue. He was a mountain safety advisor to a number of major films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Eiger Sanction and The Mission. His 1972 International Mountain Rescue Handbook is considered a manual in the mountain search and rescue discipline."
tagline: "Scottish mountain climber (1930–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/819l4%2B0E2wL._AC_SL1500_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-07-07"
deathDate: "2020-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             2.61744966442953
  historical:           5.288014666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570581/"
    handle:    "nm0570581"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.hamishmacinnes.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_MacInnes"
    title: "Hamish MacInnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_MacInnes"
    title: "Hamish MacInnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_MacInnes"
    title: "Hamish MacInnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_MacInnes"
    title: "Hamish MacInnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_MacInnes"
    title: "Hamish MacInnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_MacAonghais_(sreapadair)"
    title: "Hamish MacAonghais (sreapadair)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3126469"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump