Earl L. Denman was born around either 1915 or 1923 in Tod Inlet on Vancouver Island but raised in England. He was a Canadian mountaineer who attempted to summit Mount Everest in 1947. By 1947 he was working as an engineer in Southern Rhodesia. Denman tried to return to Everest in 1948, but couldn't leave India. In 1954 his autobiography Alone to Everest of his Everest attempt was published. Later he fought Apartheid in South Africa, where he was living in the 1960s before he was thrown out of the country. In 1982 he was living in New Zealand.