Charles Snead Houston
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Charles Snead Houston was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important and celebrated attem
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Nanda Devi
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Nanda Devi is the second-highest mountain in India, after Kangchenjunga, and the highest located entirely within the country as Kangchenjunga is on the border of India and Nepal. Nanda Devi is the 23r
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…and Chychele Waterston. In 1936, Houston was a member of the British–American Himalayan Expedition led by the British climber H.W. Tilman to the top of Nanda Devi in India, the highest mountain climbed at that time. In 1938, he was the leader of the first American Karakoram expedition to K2. Although he did not…
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Nanda Devi (center) with Sunanda Devi (on the right), Shot from Ranikhet, Almora
The southwest side of Nanda Devi photographed from Kausani
Mask Dance in lata village, the gateway to Nanda Devi National Park