Opening of Sherpa hospital
(N.Z. P.A .Reul er—Copyri ght) KATMANDU. Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Everest, has seen the opening of a 20-bed hospital which he built in a remote Himalayan village for the Sherpas — and which cost him the lives of his wife and daughter.
The New Zealand mountaineer, who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Sherpa Tenzing, attended the inauguration of the hospital at Pharpul, 2500 m up in the mountains.
His wife and daughter, Belinda, died when their small aircraft crashed near Katmandu while on the way to Pharpul in March last year, while the hospital was being built. Sir Edmund said that for him personally “there has been hard work, excitement and sadness, but I hope there is something worth while to show for it all.”
The hospital, manned b” doctors from the New Zealand Volunteer Service Abroad, was declared open by Nepal’s Prime Minister (Dr Tulsi Giri). It is the second hospital which Sir Edmund has built for the Sherpas, who act as guides and carriers for all Himalayan expeditions.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34146, 6 May 1976, Page 11
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178Opening of Sherpa hospital Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34146, 6 May 1976, Page 11
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