The Mount Everest region. 1 : 100,000. [London], Royal Geographical Society, [1962]. 17s. 6d.

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Climbing Mount Everest Without Oxygen

The ascent of Mount Everest (altitude 8,848 m) by two climbers without supplementary oxygen in 1978 was a feat that astonished many physiologists; indeed, measurements of maximal oxygen uptake at lower altitudes suggested that it would be impossible. Data obtained in 1981 at extreme altitudes, including the summit itself, showed that man can tolerate the extreme hypoxia only by an enormous incr...

Royal Society of Medicine, London: portraits, paintings and sculptures

shallow and naive. She is, for example, determined that both her practitioners should appear only in the best light-they both "ont su parfaitement s'adapter 'a leur epoque" (p. 155). At times this approach can only have been sustained by a remarkable inability to consider the evidence put forward. Mme Tempere relies heavily on oral sources, and these occasionally reveal tantalizing snippets of ...

Visualization and Animation of Mount Everest

In the year 1988 a new topographical map 1:50’000 of the Mount Everest region was published by the National Geographical Society. The full map content was derived from aerial images of scale 1:35’000, acquired in a 1984 photogrammetric flight. This highly acclaimed topographical map, produced with Swiss photogrammetric and cartographic know-how, serves until nowadays as an important work of ref...