From the Chairman
Ed Hawkins - Chairman
Dear OAs
Both Bob Coupland and Matron - Vicky Holmes - played a
significant role in my life as a pupil at Pyrland Hall and it is very
fitting that our November dinner is taking place at King's Hall
and that they are our guests of honour. I hope that as many of
you as possible will be there to mark their retirements.
It was lovely that there was such good support for the
cricketing weekend for Dennis Breakwell. here were also lots
of OAs at the England Masters XI v King's 1st XI which was a
great occasion.
I hope that the newsletter keeps you well-informed about
these and the many exciting events at
the school, as well as what your contemporaries are doing, and I
look forward to seeing you at events over the next year.
OA Bursary Fund .....................3
OA Events ..........................4-11
OA News ........................12-24
OA Article .................................25
OA Weddings .............26-27
OA Sport.........................28-31
King's Hall ..................................32
King's College ..............33-35
King's Leavers ..........................36
Lost OAs .....................................37
OA Pelican Society ............38
In Memoriam .........................38
OA Club Benefit Fund ...38
Archives ......................................39
OAs in Action ............40-41
OA Club Office ....................42
Sports Hub ...............................42
Hong Kong Foundation 43
OA Committee ....................43
Events ............................................44
CONTENTS
OAs Ross and Hugo Turner took on another extraordinary climbing challenge to support
medical research by climbing Mt Elbrus. Mt Elbrus stands at 5,642m (18,510ft) and is located
in the Caucasus mountain range- situated between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea stretching
for about 1000kms. Mt Elbrus was the first mountaineering objective to prepare the twins
for high altitude and the overall goal of climbing Mt Cho Oyu- standing at 8,201m (26,906
ft). he twins were testing the traditional clothing and equipment used by mountaineers
around 100 years ago and comparing it against today's modern mountaineering equivalent.
Starting from the north, near Kislovodsk the route traversed up and summited the west
peak, dropping to the south side and eventually ending at the small settlement of Terskol.
King's College London's Department of Twin Research and GlaxoSmithKline's Human
Performance Lab will both be conducting research on them to better understand the
effects of high altitude on the human body to advance medical knowledge.
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