Michael Ward Mountaineer - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Michael Phelps Ward (26 March 1925 – 7 October 2005) CBE was an English surgeon and an expedition doctor on the 1953 first ascent of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary.
He argued that the conquest of the mountain was a victory for science since doctors had finally figured out how to cope with the physiological effects of high altitude.
His discoveries a few years earlier in the Royal Geographic Society archives of the Milne-Hink map and unofficial RAF photos of the Everest area helped to make the summit ascent possible.He had been on the earlier 1951 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition which pioneered the route used by the 1953 expedition.
He was a pioneer in high altitude medicine.
He wrote numerous books including Everest: A Thousand Years of Exploration.He was a supporter of the National Health Service and the East End of London rather than Harley Street.
He was a lecturer in Clinical Surgery at the London Hospital Medical College 1975-93, and Consultant Surgeon at St Andrew’s Hospital, Bow 1964-93 and Newham Hospital 1983-93.
He was awarded a CBE in 1983.
He was from London.
He wrote an autobiography This Short Span (1972).

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