Charles Snead Houston
Charles Snead Houston | |
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| Born | August 24, 1913 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 27, 2009 (aged 96) Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
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Dorcas Laidley Tiemeyer
(m. 1941; died 1999) |
| Children | 4 (2 daughters and 2 sons) |
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Charles Snead Houston (August 24, 1913 – September 27, 2009) was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important and celebrated attempts to climb the mountain K2 in the Karakoram Range.