• Lewis Griffith Cresswell Evans Pugh (29 October 1909 – 22 December 1994), generally known as Griffith Pugh, was a British physiologist and mountaineer...
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    S. Stratheden bound for Bombay on 12 February, bar Tom Bourdillon, Griffith Pugh, and Hunt, who required surgery to resolve an infection of the "antrum"...
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  • Ohio Griffith Pugh (1909–1994), British mountaineer on the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition Gwilym Puw, sometimes anglicised as William Pugh (c. 1618-c...
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  • Dr. Griffith Thompson Pugh Sr. was a former President and Academic Administrator of Columbia College in South Carolina, United States. He served in this...
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    "was becoming rather clumsy-fingered and slow-moving". Physiologist Griffith Pugh was on the 1952 and 1953 expeditions to study the effects of cold and...
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    in 1952, Eric Shipton was to lead an attempt to ascend Cho Oyu, and Griffith Pugh was to trial oxygen equipment and train members for 1953. But the expedition...
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    1960, Hillary organised the 1960–61 Silver Hut expedition, with Griffith Pugh; and Pugh showed that Mount Everest could be climbed without oxygen, with...
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  • and Mountaineering Expedition, was initiated by Edmund Hillary and Griffith Pugh with John Dienhart of World Books in America (producers of a children’s...
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  • 2013 Harriet Tuckey, Everest – The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made It Possible 2012 Andy Kirkpatrick, Cold Wars: Climbing...
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    inserted. Physiologist Griffith Pugh had also been on the 1952 British Cho Oyu expedition to study the effects of cold and altitude. Pugh and Michael Ward made...
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  • was contested by Abraham Elton, George Deane, William Molyneux and Griffith Pugh. Elton, a Whig who had been a late entrant to the election won, and...
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    open-circuit bottled oxygen sets, with the expedition's physiologist Griffith Pugh referring to the oxygen debate as a "futile controversy", noting that...
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  • in high altitude medicine and physiology, which he researched with Griffith Pugh on the 1960-61 Silver Hut expedition. In 1972, he wrote an autobiography...
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    snow on a Primus stove for water). This was also the conclusion of Griffith Pugh in 1952. Their oxygen sets were barely operable and when the two men...
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  • daughters, one of whom, Josephine, married the physiologist and mountaineer Griffith Pugh in 1939. Cassel's county estate was at Putteridge Bury, near Luton....
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  • Mount Everest, made international news along with fellow explorer Dr. Griffith Pugh during their 1960-1961 Himalayan Scientific Mountaineering Expedition...
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    the Himalayas with Hillary, to study high-altitude physiology with Griffith Pugh and to hunt for the Yeti around Rowaling. During the decade he went...
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    1950 Annapurna expedition. Acclimatisation issues were discussed with Griffith Pugh of the 1953 Everest expedition and Couzy developed acclimatisation and...
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    Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh actor. Described by BFI Screenonline as a "wild-eyed, formidable character player", Griffith appeared...
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  • English entomologist John Ponsonby-Fane (1848–1916), English malacologist Griffith Pugh (1909–1994), expedition physiologist on the 1953 British Mount Everest...
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    Everest expedition Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man who made it possible Harriet Tuckey 2013 about 1952 British...
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  • was one of the test subjects who worked closely with the physiologist Griffith Pugh to test oxygen flow rates at altitude. At the time, the Cho Oyu expedition...
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    Rachel Anne Griffiths AM (born in 1968) is an Australian actress. Raised primarily in Melbourne, she began her acting career appearing on the Australian...
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    James Jeffrey Griffith (February 13, 1916 – September 17, 1993) was an American character actor, musician and screenwriter. Born in Los Angeles, California...
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  • starring Nigel Havers. in 2007, Rogers and Pugh produced Equus in London's West End, which starred Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe and played a sell-out...
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  • sense of shame that we'd allowed ourselves to admit defeat so easily". Griffith Pugh had been the expedition physiologist, preparing for this role again...
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    medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below. Griffith Pugh was chosen for all three skiing events, but could not compete because...
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    Bourdillon, was a mountaineer. Robert and Tom Bourdillon, together with Griffith Pugh, developed the oxygen equipment used for the 1953 British Mount Everest...
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  • as Trumpet was in reality not a single person but a couple. Captured by Pugh and Stewart, they were interrogated by British Intelligence but all trace...
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  • starring Richard Griffiths, John Hurt and Ken Stott at the Wyndham's Theatre in 2005, which also won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. Pugh and Rogers...
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