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Article: Charles Houston, 96; climber led, learned from K-2 trip
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2009
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NEW YORK - Dr. Charles S. Houston, who, motivated by what he
called "the lure of unknown regions beyond the rim of experience,"
led a legendary but unsuccessful Himalayan expedition and did
trailblazing research on high-altitude medicine, died Sunday in
Burlington, Vt. He was 96.
In 1953, Dr. Houston led a team of eight to within 3,000 feet of
the 28,251-foot summit of K-2, the second-highest mountain in the
world. They expected to reach the top in two or three days.
Instead, the climbers experienced what became a famous series of
harrowing events. Their heroic response came to exemplify how
utterly self-sacrificing a team of mountaineers can be. Dr. Houston
called it "the brotherhood of ...
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