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NIMR Everest scientist remembered
03 April 2008
Scientists tame the tallest mountain
The article begins:
Sir Edmund Hillary, who with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was the first person to reach the top of the world's tallest mountain, died in January 2008 aged 88. MRC research contributed to the success of the 1953 Everest expedition - accompanying Sir Edmund was NIMR scientist Dr Griffith Pugh. He studied ways to combat the swollen brain, nausea, fatigue and insomnia that can afflict adventurers wanting to reach the world's highest and most inhospitable places.
The complete article is available in the March/April 2008 issue of MRC Network.
Griffith Pugh at NIMR
Griffith Pugh spent most of his research career at NIMR, joining the NIMR Division of Human Physiology in 1950. He became head of the Laboratory for Field Physiology in 1967 until he retired in 1975. He died in 1994.
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