2007-05-19 Saturday Pherich altitude 4306m

Professor David Howard was taken very ill overnight. He had seemed OK until about 16:00 yesterday, had to be evacuated out by helicopter, with AMS and severe complications. He has been up and down the mountain a few times, and is running the ENT experiments, He had been ascending the mountain more or less with us, and I think the suddenness and the severity of his illness has sobered all the members of our trek. The measurement team evacuated him by stretcher and with oxygen. They had been up all night with David, and so the testing was late in starting and the team were all absolutely shattered.