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6th Jul 2015

Second In Conversation With... piece published

John West

Xtreme Everest's Dr Ned Gilbert-Kawai second In Conversation with... piece has just been published on Extreme Physiology & Medicine. The interview is part of Dr Gilbert-Kawai's mission to interview the good and the great from the academic world. The interviews lasted anything up to three hours, covering the span of each academics career including the highs, the lows and most importantly the research.

In his own words, Ned tells how the interviews and subsequent papers came about;

Whilst attending a conference last year, I was fortunate enough to be seated at lunch next to a very eminent octogenarian academic. Conversation ensued, and I was instantly captivated by his stories. These were not narratives filled with scientific facts, but rather anecdotes of his life and the pathways he had taken to get where he was today. Fascinated by such accounts, I set about the task of interviewing persons of scientific acclaim, to learn more about their life stories and unwritten tales. In conversation with... therefore offers readers a chance to share an abridged version of these conversations.

The subject for the second piece is John Burnard West, who was part of both the Silver Hut expedition and in 1981, led the American Medical Research Expedition to Everest (AMREE). John has also published over 400 papers.

There are still more interviews to come in the series, which will be released shortly.

You can read or download the paper, by visiting the Extreme Physiology and Medicine website.

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