I have not read of Norman Collie.I have met many famous climbers doing the slide show thing or just because they live in occupied Boulder, CO just north of me. I have books autographed by many: (High in the Cold Thin Air - Edmund Hillary), (Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer wishing me well on upcoming trip to Cho Oyu), (The Ascent of Everest - John Hunt), (Lost Lhassa, the movie was 7 Years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer), (All 14 Eightthousanders - Reinhold Messner).
J. Norman Collie was a Scottish chemistry professor and as I gather one of the great climbers around the turn of the 20th century.
Some folks think he was the inspiration for Conan Doyle’s Sherlock
Holmes character. I know that he looked like Holmes :<}
I read a book called The Snows of Yesteryear about him.