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[edit] Summit Elevation
Bivouac.com gives
- Height: 4250 m (NTS50_Contour) (13944 ft)
which i read as "the nearest contour it lies inside is the 4250 m contour" on a map with contours at 50-m intervals; the 5-sig-fig feet value is a conversion with false precision, inviting assuming 5 digit accuracy while the meters one appears to have barely more than 2.
I take the uncertainty in the metric figure to be -0/+50m: if it were lower than 4250, the summit would lie outside that contour (and thus, since it is a summit, the map would show no 4250 contour near it); if it were higher than 4300, there would be a 4300 contour shown inside the 4250 one.
So my figures are based on
- 4250 meter = 13,943.5695538 feet
and
- 4300 meter = 14,107.6115486 feet
specifically
- 4250-m to 4300-m (14000-foot) summit
High Mountain INFO April 1997 has 4267 m. (I take
- the 1,800m North West Face
to refer to the elevation gain by that route.) But
- 14000 feet = 4,267.2 meter
so this figure is probably the result of one person converting 4250 to feet, and rounding to the nearest 100 feet, and another converting that figure to meters and rounding to the nearest meter. Fuhgeddaboudit.
--Jerzy(t) 04:44, 2004 Dec 1 (UTC)
[edit] A Further Lead
Someone with a copy of "A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond" by Jim Whittaker should be able to come up with more around pp. 121-127. I expect it to say that Brad Washburn and James Craig (a Canadian climber) were part of the summit party. I'd hope for more members of the party.
--Jerzy(t) 04:44, 2004 Dec 1 (UTC)
P. 125 hopefully gives summit date as March 24,1965. --Jerzy(t) 05:13, 2004 Dec 1 (UTC)
