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Charley W. Nash

1917

Charley Nash was born in Lee on Solvent, Hampshire, England in 1917. His family moved to Vancouver in 1925 where Charley attended Vancouver College. From 1936 to 1938 he worked at a silver mine near Mayo in the Yukon and then went to the University of British Columbia where he received a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He then joined the RCAF and served in England until the end of the war piloting Lancaster Bombers.

In 1945 he joined the BC Power Commission as an Engineer in Victoria. He moved to Vancouver working with BC Hydro and stayed on the Vancouver Board until 1963. Nash retired in 1981 but then took up independent consulting.

Charley Nash took up mountaineering in 1949 when Bill Lash (whom he worked with) asked him to join a team going into Elkhorn, the Strathcona Matterhorn. The party consisted of Bill Lash and his son Mallory, Phil Wolstenholmes and Geoffrey Capes. Their ascent was the second of the mountain. Although not a serious mountaineer, Nash joined the Vancouver North Shore Hikers and was an active member of the group. Charley Nash enjoyed many outdoor interests and had a seasons ski pass to Whistler into his eighties.

Nash traveled extensively with BC Hydro visiting exotic places such as Bhutan, Bolivia, China, Japan, Thailand, Nepal and Afghanistan where he got to ski in the Hindu Kush mountains.

Sources:
Nash, Charley. Personal Communication. 2000.

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