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Oscar Houston
The death was announced last December of Oscar R. Houston, in New York, at the age of eighty-six. He was a lawyer and was a principal counsel at the hearing of such famous sea disasters as the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. To mountaineers, his name evokes that of his son, our member Dr Charles Houston, whose name is associated with many distinguished climbs, particularly the American attempts on K2. In 1950, Oscar Houston accompanied Mrs E. S. Cowles, Charles Houston, H. W. Tilman and others, on the first expedition that made a serious investigation of the approaches to Everest from the south, via the Khumbu ice-fall, as is recorded in Tilman's Nepal Himalaya.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 75, 1970, Seite 344


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1970