Peter Hackett (mountaineer)
Peter H. Hackett is an American mountaineer and medical doctor. He is the third person to have summited
Biography
In 2000, Peter Hackett was an emergency physician in Grand Junction, Colorado, and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle.[1] By 2009, he was the director of the Institute for Altitude Medicine in Telluride, Colorado, and a professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado.[2]
Medical research
In 1973, Hackett was a co-founder of the Himalayan Rescue Association. It established a clinic near
Everest expedition
Hackett was a member of the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition led by John B. West. He was slated to try for the summit as the second of two groups on October 24, 1981; around noon, Chris Pizzo and Young Tenzing had reached the summit, with Pizzo doing various measurements and taking samples of his own breath for later research. Three hours later Hackett was observed approaching the summit, which he reached at 4 pm. On the descent he fell through a layer of snow at the Hillary Step, and after a drop of 10โ15 ft (3.0โ4.6 m) he found himself hanging upside down with his right boot, snagged on some rock, holding him up. With his ice axe he righted himself and then found an old rope, still fixed, which he used to pull himself up. He fell a second time, but got up again and descended a thousand feet, where he found Pizzo waiting for him. Together, in the dark, they safely got to Camp 5, on the South Col.[6]
Hackett described some of the effects of
Hackett was the third person to summit Everest solo, after Franz Oppurg (1978, from the South side) and Reinhold Messner (1980, from the North side).[7]
References
Notes
- ^ a b "Peter Hackett". NOVA. November 2000. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
- ^ Broudy, Berne (September 2009). "Higher Education: Should This Kid Climb Everest?". Backpacker Magazine: 62โ83. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
- ^ Houston et al. 184.
- PMID 27763796.
- ^ Schaffer, Grayson (November 11, 2016). "How Many People Use Drugs on Everest?". Outside. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
- ^ West 1-4.
- ^ West 143.
Bibliography
- ISBN 9781594851797.
- ISBN 0070695024.