Michael Ward (surgeon)
Michael Phelps Ward (born March 26, 1925 in London , † October 7, 2005 in Lurgashall , England ) was a British surgeon and mountaineer. He had been married to Jane Ewbank since 1957 and had one son.
biography
Michael Ward graduated with a PhD in medicine. He was able to combine his private passion for extreme mountaineering with medical research. He was particularly interested in the influence of altitude on physiology and acclimatization . One focus of his research was on altitude sickness , about which very little was known at the time.
In 1951, Michael Ward and Eric Shipton were part of a Himalayan expedition in Nepal to explore a new route to Mount Everest . During the 1953 expedition with Sir Edmund Hillary's historic first ascent of Mount Everest , Michael Ward was then involved as an expedition doctor. Even afterwards, further research expeditions took him to the mountain regions of the Himalayas. During an expedition in the spring of 1961 led by Edmund Hillary, Michael Ward, together with Wally Romanes, Michael Gill (NZ) and Barry Bishop (USA), managed the first ascent of the 6,856 m high Ama Dablam . However, since the summit attack took place without the permission of the authorities, no permission was subsequently granted to climb the Ama Dablam again until 1979.
From 1964 to 1993 Ward worked as a surgeon in London. From 1978 on he was also a lecturer at the Royal London Hospital Medical College . In the same year he was also elected chairman of the Mount Everest Foundation and held this office until 1980. On October 7, 2005, Dr. Michael Ward in Lurgashall in West Sussex .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ward, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ward, Michael Phelps |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British surgeon and climber |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 2005 |
| Place of death | Lurgashall , England |