John A. Hayward In April 1918 I volunteered to go to France in response to the urgent call for more surgeons. For twenty years I had been in general practice in a suburb, and did a fair amount of surgery among patients and at the local hospitals. I had also had some war experience as one of the s...
A member of Sir John Hunt’s 1953 Himalayan expedition, Hillary, together with Sherpa Tenzing, made the first ascent of Everest. I looked at the way ahead. From our tent very steep slopes covered with deep powder snow led up to a prominent snow shoulder on the south-east ridge about a hundred feet...