HOSPITAL IN NEPAL
Alpine Club’s Help
The New Zealand Alpine Club has agreed to recruit a construction team of two builders and a plumber for the Sherpa hospital in Nepal which Sir Edmund Hillary plans to build next year. This advice was given to Mr A. H. McCormack, of Christchurch, secretary of the New Zealand Alpine Club, by Sir Edmund Hillary from Auckland yesterday.
The New Zealand Alpine Club will also approach its 1200 members to raise the necessary funds to transport the construction team to Katmandu and back. The team will leave New Zealand in September next year, and will return by Christmas.
The hospital will be built at the village of Khunde, in the Mount Everest area, and it will be at an altitude of 13,000 ft, only 12 miles from the Tibetan border. Local rock and timber will be used where possible, but roofing, windows, and furnishing will be brought from New Zealand. Most of the equipment will have to be carried by porters for 16 days from Katmandu, but the construction team will fly by small aircraft to the mountain airfield constructed last year at Lukla by Sir Edmund Hillary. This is only a day and a half’s walk from the hospital site.
There are 4000 Sherpas in the area round Khunde and they have no medical facilities of any sort.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 22
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