HIGH-ALTITUDE RESEARCH
Appeal By Hillary To India
(N.Z J 3. A.-Reuter—Copyright) DARJEELING (India), February 19. Sir Edmund Hillary, on his way to climb Makalu (27,790 ft appealed to India yesterday to carry out highaltjtude medical research among men guarding her Himalayan frontiers. Recent developments with the Chinese Communists along the 2400-mile frontier, he said, would put part of the Indian Army at great altitudes. He said this was a good opportunity for physiological reesarch. Sir Edmund Hillary offered the local Himalayan Institute two prefabricated huts—electrically heated and fully equipped for high-altitude research. He also offered the institute all the data so far gathered by his team. This, he added, had been valuable for research into heart ailments.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29444, 21 February 1961, Page 11
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