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Longview Memorial hospital was opened in 1924, but closed by 1943. [2] In December 1943, the former hospital was purchased by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace for $85,000 and re-opened as St. John's Hospital. [2] The hospital was expanded in 1952 and again in 1968 when new patient tower was added. [2] Further expansions came in 1982, 1992 ...
Beck Weathers is an American pathologist from Texas who survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.His story was covered in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air (1997), its film adaptation Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997), and the films Everest (1998) and Everest (2015).
Theodore Howard Somervell OBE, FRCS (16 April 1890 – 23 January 1975) was an English surgeon, mountaineer, painter and missionary who was a member of two expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s, and then spent nearly 40 years working as a doctor in India.
Nepal issued permits for Everest, each costing $11,000, to 421 climbers this season, which ends on Friday. Officials said about 600 people, a figure which includes guides who don't need permits ...
The first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Mount Everest returned from the mountain on Tuesday pledging to dedicate the rest of his life to helping people with disabilities. Hari Budha Magar ...
British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine died on Everest in 1924. New research sheds light on whether they reached the summit first. 100 years ago they disappeared on Everest.
Brian Dickinson (born June 16, 1974) is a climber who soloed the summit of Mount Everest on May 15, 2011, [1] after his Sherpa mountain guide became ill and went back down to high camp (South Col, 26,000'). After taking some pictures and making a radio call, Brian began his descent, but within a few feet, he became snow blind. His vision did ...
He is one of six Indian men and the twenty first man in the world to climb Mount Everest. On 29 May 1965, 12 years to the day from the first ascent of Mount Everest, he made the summit with the fourth and final successful attempt of the 1965 Indian Everest Expedition along with H. C. S. Rawat and Phu Dorjee Sherpa. This was the first time three ...