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Charles Houston Papers

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2014
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Business Number: 858-534-2533
Fax Number: 858-534-5950
spcoll@ucsd.edu

Descriptive Summary

Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Charles Houston Papers
Creator: Houston, Charles S.
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0716
Physical Description: 35 Linear feet (72 archives boxes, 4 record cartons, 2 card file boxes, and 1 flat box)
Date (inclusive): 1906 - 2009
Abstract: The papers of Charles Houston, high altitude researcher and mountaineer, document his medical and high altitude expedition career from 1945-2009. The materials include correspondence, research from the Operation Everest I and II, high altitude medical research investigations, Peace Corps materials, writings, photographs and audiovisual materials.
Languages: English .

Biography

Charles Snead Houston, born in 1913 in New York, was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, and former Peace Corps administrator. He was educated at Harvard University and earned a Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Houston practiced internal medicine in Exeter, New Hampshire and Aspen, Colorado. Later, he joined the faculty at the University of Vermont as Professor of Medicine. He retired from the faculty in 1979.
In 1936, Houston was a member of an 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 led the first American Karakoram expedition to K2. In 1953, he organized an expedition return to K2 and although he did not reach the summit, his party mapped a route to the summit that was accomplished by the Italian team in 1954. Houston published K2, the Savage Mountain (1954) about the expedition.
Houston began his study of the effects of high altitude as a naval flight surgeon in World War II. He was in charge of Operation Everest (1947) in which four subjects were taken to a simulated altitude of 8850 m over 34 days in a compression chamber. The studies demonstrated that acclimatization would allow pilots to fly unpressurized planes to altitudes of 15,000 feet and higher. Houston continued similar studies of human biological responses at extreme simulated altitudes in the high altitude chamber during Operation Everest II in 1985.
From 1962 to 1965, Houston served as the first Country Director of the Peace Corps for India under the directorship of Robert Sargent Shriver. He was instrumental in developing the medical doctors' division within the Corps. Additionally during the 1960s, Houston was involved with early attempts to construct an artificial heart. Consequently his designs influenced the design of the Jarvik artificial heart.
Even after his mountaineering days of climbing discontinued, Houston continued the investigation of altitude sickness and was the first to document high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). The culmination of his work was executed on the grant funded research study on Mount Logan in the Yukon territory in Canada. Houston was the director of the Arctic Institute on Mount Logan in 1968.
Additionally, Houston was a major benefactor for establishing the Colorado Altitude Research Institute (CARI), now known as the Altitude Research Center. Under the leadership of Dr. Houston, the institute studied how hypoxia affects health and performance and included the largest survey performed in the United States into incidences of acute mountain sickness.
Charles Houston died on September 27, 2009 in Burlington, Vermont.

Scope and Content of Collection

The papers of Charles Houston, high altitude physiology researcher and mountaineer, relate to the medical research and investigation of high altitude climates and illnesses. Notable portions of the collection are Houston's studies of high altitude simulated environments: Operation Everest I and II, Mount Logan High Altitude Physiology Study, and the Mount Washington study. Houston's research resulted in numerous published books, mountaineering accounts, and writings. The papers also include correspondence, materials related to other significant mountain expeditions, professional affiliations documents, additional grant and research projects, and biographical materials. A modest portion of the collection represents Houston's tenure as the first Country Director for Peace Corps for India, as lead medical teaching doctor. The collection also includes audio and visual recordings.
The papers are arranged in nine series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 3) PEACE CORPS OF INDIA, 4) HIGH ALTITUDE RESEARCH, 5) WRITINGS, 6) GRANTS AND RESEARCH, 7) LECTURES AND CONFERENCES, 8) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS, and 9) IMAGES AND RECORDINGS.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Acquisition Information

Acquired 2009.

Preferred Citation

Charles Houston Papers, MSS 716. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

OFF-SITE STORAGE

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Restrictions

Original audiovisual media formats are restricted. Viewing/listening copies may be available for researchers. Correspondence containing medical information in Boxes 19-20 and 71 is restricted until 2095.

Processing Information

A small selection of materials in the Charles Houston papers had significant water damage, therefore photocopy reproductions replace the originals in portions of the papers.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Mountaineering -- Physiological aspects
Altitude, Influence of
Acclimatization
Adaptation (Physiology)
Houston, Charles S. -- Archives
 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE. Arranged in two subseries: A) General Correspondence and B) Altitude Illness Case Records.
A) General Correspondence: Houston's incoming and outgoing correspondence with researchers in the fields of high altitude medicine and cardiology, family members, colleagues, and researchers. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
B) Altitude Illness Case Records: Correspondence related to various studies in which Houston either participated or consulted. These letters contain medical information and are restricted until 2095.
 

General Correspondence

Box 1, Folder 1

Aarseth, Sverre 1980-1982

Box 1, Folder 2

Abrams, Herbert 1972-1973

Box 1, Folder 3

Adams, Connie 2005

Box 1, Folder 4

Ader, Robert 2001-2006

Box 1, Folder 5

Ahmed, Durie 2004-2005

Box 1, Folder 6

Alda, Alan 1977-1979

Box 1, Folder 7

Allman, William 1983

Box 1, Folder 8

Altman, Peter 1987

Box 1, Folder 9

Ament, Pat 1987-1989

Box 1, Folder 10-12

American Alpine Club 1973-2002

Box 1, Folder 13

Anantharamakrishnan, S. 1963-1964

Box 1, Folder 14

Anderson, Eric 1979-1984

Box 1, Folder 15

Anderson, J.R.L. 1979-1981

Box 1, Folder 16

Anderson, Lester 1980

Box 1, Folder 17

Anderson, Maxie 1981-1982

Box 1, Folder 18

Anholm, James 1979-1982

Box 1, Folder 19

Armstrong, E. (Army) 1983-2002

Box 1, Folder 20

Armstrong, Victoria 1983-1989

Box 1, Folder 21

Axelrod, Shirli 1979

Box 1, Folder 22

A - Miscellaneous

Box 2, Folder 1

Babcock, Henry H. 1978-2002

Box 2, Folder 2

Backus, Verne 1988-1989

Box 2, Folder 3

Baekeland, Brooks 1988

Box 2, Folder 4

Bakewell, Anderson 1985-1986

Box 2, Folder 5

Bangs, Cameron 1976-1983

Box 2, Folder 6-7

Barry Family (Em, Anne, Helen) 1981-2002

Box 2, Folder 8

Bates, Robert 1995-2008

Box 2, Folder 9

Baume, Louis 1980-1984

Box 2, Folder 10

Beal, Chris 2004-2006

Box 2, Folder 11

Beal, Janet 2003-2006

Box 2, Folder 12

Becker, E. Lovell (Stretch) 1979-1981

Box 2, Folder 13

Belle, Aimee 1984-1989

Box 2, Folder 14

Benedict, Fabienne 1984-1988

Box 2, Folder 15

Berle, Beatrice 1988

Box 2, Folder 16

Bezruchka, Stephen 1983-2002

Box 2, Folder 17

Bishop, Barry 1988

Box 2, Folder 18

Bland, John 1962-1997

Box 2, Folder 19

Bligh, John 1981-1985

Box 2, Folder 20

Blount, Gilbert 1962-1975

Box 2, Folder 21

Blount, Rick 2003-2004

Box 2, Folder 22

Bogan, B.P. 1981-1983

Box 2, Folder 23

Bortz, Walter 1984

Box 69, Folder 1

Bourne, Chris 1979

Box 2, Folder 24

Bowman, Warren D. 1982-1988

Box 2, Folder 25

Boyle, John 1982-1988

Box 3, Folder 1

Bragdon, Pete 1961-2006

Box 3, Folder 2

Brandes, Gertrud 1999

Box 3, Folder 3

Britton, John 1989

Box 69, Folder 2

Brown, Thomas Graham 1935-1936

Box 3, Folder 4

Bruce, Jeanette 1976-1977

Box 3, Folder 5

Buhler, Carlos 1983-2002

Box 3, Folder 6

Buick, Fred 1982

Box 3, Folder 7

Burack, Nelson 1986

Box 3, Folder 8

Burchell, Howard B. 1981-1984

Box 3, Folder 9

Burki, Dius 1993

Box 3, Folder 10

Burlington Free Press 1977-2003

Box 3, Folder 11

Burns, Barry 1980-1983

Box 3, Folder 12-14

B - Miscellaneous

Box 69, Folder 3-4

B - Miscellaneous

Box 4, Folder 1

Carroll, Steve 1983

Box 4, Folder 2

Carter, H. Adams 1970-1980

Box 4, Folder 3

Castle, Frank 1988

Box 4, Folder 4

Child, Marilyn 1976-2002

Box 4, Folder 5

Clarke, Charles 1975-1983

Box 4, Folder 6

Clinch, Nicholas B. 1981-2002

Box 69, Folder 5

Coburn, Broughton 1997

Box 69, Folder 6

Colorado Rocky Mountain School 1973-1975

Box 4, Folder 7

Comlay, Bob 2001-2002

Box 4, Folder 8

Conrad, Richard J. 2000-2001

Box 4, Folder 9

Costelle, Daniel 1979-1981

Box 4, Folder 10

Cowles, Elizabeth 1950

Box 4, Folder 11

Crawford, Ian 1972

Box 4, Folder 12

Cross, Leroy 1974-1975

Box 4, Folder 13

Crouch, Dee 1963-1980

Box 4, Folder 14

Cudabeck, David 1982-1983

Box 69, Folder 7

Cummings, Peter 1979-1981

Box 4, Folder 15

Cummings, Peter 1981-1989

Box 4, Folder 16

Cummings, Stanley 1979-1986

Box 4, Folder 17

Cuttler, Clive 1984-1988

Box 4, Folder 18

C - Miscellaneous

Box 5, Folder 1

C - Miscellaneous

Box 69, Folder 8

C - Miscellaneous

Box 5, Folder 2

Darvill, Fred 1987-1988

Box 5, Folder 3

Daugen, Fred 1974-1975

Box 5, Folder 4

Davis, Deane 1972-1973

Box 5, Folder 5

Davis, H.E. 1984

Box 5, Folder 6

Davis, Pamela 1987-2002

Box 5, Folder 7

Dea, Peter 1981-1982

Box 5, Folder 8

Desio, Ardito 1972-1988

Box 5, Folder 9-10

Dickenson, John 1972-1983

Box 5, Folder 11

Dill, Bruce 1979-1984

Box 5, Folder 12

Dow, Russ and Rusty 1982-1987

Box 5, Folder 13

Dreyfus, Jack 1987-1988

Box 69, Folder 9

Dreyfus, Jack 1976-1985

Box 5, Folder 14

Drummond, Alex. Includes images of Alex Drummond and Ron Cox rescue 1990-1995

Box 5, Folder 15

D - Miscellaneous

Box 69, Folder 10-11

D - Miscellaneous

Box 5, Folder 16

Echevarria, Emilio 1981-1985

Box 5, Folder 17

Eiseman, Ben 1962-1986

Box 6, Folder 1

Engle, Dean. Includes "Talus: A Scrapbook History of Dartmouth Mountaineering Club" 1992

Box 6, Folder 2

Evans, Patricia

Box 6, Folder 3

E - Miscellaneous

Box 6, Folder 4

Fabian, Georgene and Rick 2002

Box 6, Folder 5

Farquhar, Francis 1951

Box 6, Folder 6

Feins, Steve and Anita 1976-1979

Box 69, Folder 12

Filley, Giles 1980-1981

Box 6, Folder 7

Finlay, Alexis 1977

Box 6, Folder 8

Fisher, James F. 1987-1989

Box 6, Folder 9

Flanagan, Latham 1979-1984

Box 6, Folder 10

Foege, William 1977-2005

Box 6, Folder 11

Foster, Tiah 1981-1985

Box 6, Folder 12

Frayser, Regina 1970-1975

Box 6, Folder 13

Froelicher, F. Charles 1976-2006

Box 6, Folder 14

F - Miscellaneous

Box 69, Folder 13

F - Miscellaneous

Box 6, Folder 15

Galbraith, John Kenneth 1981-1987

Box 6, Folder 16

Gamow, Igor R. 1985-1988

Box 6, Folder 17

Gardiner, Steve 1990

Box 7, Folder 1

Glen, David A. 2007

Box 7, Folder 2

Goodwin-Kueffner, Carolyn 2002-2003

Box 70, Folder 1

Gray, Gary 1980-1981

Box 7, Folder 3

Green, Peter 1998-2002

Box 7, Folder 4

Gressley, Gene M. 1975-1985

Box 7, Folder 5

Griffith, Stan 1975-1979

Box 70, Folder 2

Grose, Jack and Bobby 1984-1985

Box 7, Folder 6

Grose, Susan 2001-2002

Box 7, Folder 7

Grover, Robert 1975-1980

Box 7, Folder 8

Gundel, Walter 1981-1982

Box 7, Folder 9-10

G - Miscellaneous

Box 70, Folder 3

G - Miscellaneous

Box 7, Folder 11-12

Hackett, Peter 1975-2008

Box 8, Folder 1

Halsted, James A. 1975-1980

Box 8, Folder 2

Hamid, Shahid 1979-1989

Box 8, Folder 3

Hanson, Bob 1980

Box 8, Folder 4

Hanson, Dennis and Bo 1982-2002

Box 70, Folder 4

Harken, Dwight 1971-1975

Box 8, Folder 5

Harlin, John 2002

Box 70, Folder 5

Hartberg, Peter - Includes "Limits to Growth" seminar 1980

Box 8, Folder 6

Hartlin, Edmund M. 1982-1983

Box 8, Folder 7

Hartzog, George B. 1986

Box 8, Folder 8

Heiling, Dot 2002

Box 8, Folder 9

Heilman, Richard S. 1983-1985

Box 8, Folder 10

Herzog, Maurice 1975-1983

Box 8, Folder 11

Hillary, Sir Edmund

Box 8, Folder 12-13

Hodes, Rick 1993 - 2007

Box 70, Folder 6

Holdsworth, Gerald 1997

Box 8, Folder 14

Hollister, William H. 1975-1977

Box 70, Folder 7

Holzel, Tom 1960-1979

Box 8, Folder 15

Holzel, Tom 1980 - 2002

Box 8, Folder 16

Hixson, Edward G. 1962-2007

Box 70, Folder 8

Horiuchi, Akio 1981-1983

Box 8, Folder 17

Hornbein, Tom 1975-2007

Box 70, Folder 9

Hornbein, Tom. Includes draft of History of Altitude Sickness 1997

Box 9, Folder 1

House, William P. 1979-1989

Box 9, Folder 2

Houston, C. Stuart 1977-1978

Box 9, Folder 3

Houston, Dorcas 1948-1956

Box 9, Folder 4

Houston family 1962-1972

Box 9, Folder 5

Houston, Ned 1983

Box 9, Folder 6

Houston, Nelly 1954-1974

Box 9, Folder 7

Houston, Oscar S. 1932-1979

Box 9, Folder 8

Howe, Fisher 2006-2008

Box 9, Folder 9

Howorth, Beckett 1977-1982

Box 9, Folder 10

Hubbell, Charles 1975-1989

Box 9, Folder 11

Huber, J. Parker 1978

Box 9, Folder 12

Huey, Raymond B. 1996-2003

Box 9, Folder 13

Huggins, Gail E. 1982

Box 9, Folder 14

Hultgren, Herbert 1975 - 1979

Box 70, Folder 10

Hultgren, Herbert 1995-1997

Box 9, Folder 15

Hurtado, Alberto 1976-1983

Box 9, Folder 16-17

H - Miscellaneous

Box 70, Folder 11

H - Miscellaneous

Box 10, Folder 1

Ingelfinger, Franz J. 1976-1978

Box 10, Folder 2

Innes-Taylor, Alan 1975-1976

Box 10, Folder 3

Isserman, Maurice 2005-2008

Box 10, Folder 4

Ives, Jack (International Mountain Society) 1981-1986

Box 10, Folder 5

I - Miscellaneous

Box 70, Folder 12

Jacobs, Sonia 1986-1987

Box 10, Folder 6

Jaffe, Robert M. 1984-1985

Box 10, Folder 7

Jarris, Paul 1983

Box 10, Folder 8

Jeffords, James 1978-2002

Box 10, Folder 9

Jessup, Adaline and Bruce 1976-1989

Box 10, Folder 10

Johl, Ernst 1963

Box 10, Folder 11

Jones, David 1977-1985

Box 10, Folder 12

Jordan, Jennifer 2001-2009

Box 10, Folder 13

Jouty, Sylvain 1980-1989

Box 10, Folder 14

Jukes, Thomas H. 1981-1982

Box 10, Folder 15

J - Miscellaneous

Box 70, Folder 13

J - Miscellaneous

Box 10, Folder 16

Kamler, Kenneth M. 2002

Box 10, Folder 17

Kauffman, Andrew J. 1979-1983

Box 10, Folder 18

Kaul, Sanjiv 1977

Box 10, Folder 19

Keaveny, Michael 1982-1987

Box 10, Folder 20

Keller, Gary D. 2007

Box 10, Folder 21

Kennedy, Alasdair 2005-2006

Box 10, Folder 22

Kessler, Gary 1978-1981

Box 11, Folder 1

Kizer, Ken 1982-1984

Box 11, Folder 2

Kleppner, Bran 1988

Box 11, Folder 3

Knowles, John H. 1974-1977

Box 11, Folder 4

Kochalka, John 1984

Box 11, Folder 5

Koeslag, Johan H. 1981-1983

Box 11, Folder 6

Kohli, Harish 1983

Box 70, Folder 14

Korf, Richard 1991

Box 11, Folder 7

Krause, William L. 1988-1989

Box 11, Folder 8

Krishnan, G. Gopala 1976-1984

Box 11, Folder 9

K - Miscellaneous

Box 11, Folder 10

Lawrence, David 1983

Box 11, Folder 11

Ledoux, Louis Pierre 1965

Box 11, Folder 12

Leighty, Forest 1989

Box 11, Folder 13

Leoppky, Jack 1988

Box 11, Folder 14

L'etang, Hugh 1983-1985

Box 11, Folder 15

Levine, Ben 1988

Box 11, Folder 16

Lim, Albert 1987-1988

Box 11, Folder 17

Lipow, Herman 1982

Box 11, Folder 18

Lister, Chris 1980-1987

Box 11, Folder 19

Little, William 1988-1989

Box 11, Folder 20

Livingston, Katherine S. 2004-2005

Box 11, Folder 21

Lloyd, Peter 1974-1992

Box 11, Folder 22

Logsdon, Mark J. 1975

Box 11, Folder 23

Loomis, Sabra 2005

Box 11, Folder 24

Lopp, Oscar 1994-2002

Box 70, Folder 15

Lopp, Oscar - Mountain Medicine Institute 1990-1994

Box 11, Folder 25

Lord, Sterling 1981

Box 11, Folder 26

Lounsbury, Dave 2001-2002

Box 11, Folder 27

Lowrance, William 1986

Box 11, Folder 28

Lowy, Jed 1979-1980

Box 11, Folder 29

Luft, Ulrich C. 1960-1975

Box 11, Folder 30

L - Miscellaneous

Box 12, Folder 1

L - Miscellaneous

Box 12, Folder 2

Malone, Patrick T. 1995-1996

Box 12, Folder 3

Mason, Benjamin L. 1985

Box 12, Folder 4

McConnell, Page 2002-2003

Box 12, Folder 5

McDonald, Ann C. 1975-1981

Box 12, Folder 6

McKhann, Charles F. 1975-1981

Box 12, Folder 7

McNamara, Robert S. 1983-2006

Box 12, Folder 8

Mellor, Norman 1985-1989

Box 12, Folder 9

Menon, N.D. 1983-1990

Box 12, Folder 10

Merck Research Laboratories 2001-2002

Box 12, Folder 11

Meyer, Eric F. 1989-2008

Box 12, Folder 12

Milledge, J.S. 1975-2002

Box 12, Folder 13

Miller, Katherine 2004-2005

Box 12, Folder 14-15

Mistral Films 2000-2001

Box 70, Folder 16

Mohr, Lawrence 1995-1997

Box 12, Folder 16

Molenarr, Colleen and Dee 1975-2008

Box 12, Folder 17

Moomey, Marjorie M. 1983-1989

Box 12, Folder 18

Mooney, Blake 1991-1992

Box 12, Folder 19

Moore, Patricia 2000-2002

Box 12, Folder 20

Moore, Terris 1985-1987

Box 12, Folder 21

Morrissey, James D. 1982-1984

Box 12, Folder 22

Morrison, Louise 2001-2003

Box 13, Folder 1

Mortenson, Greg and Chrissey Slaughter 2000-2002

Box 13, Folder 2

Moundalexis, Athena 1988-1989

Box 13, Folder 3-5

Moyers, Bill 1983-2007

Box 13, Folder 6

M - Miscellaneous

Box 13, Folder 7

Mc - Miscellaneous

Box 13, Folder 8

Nakashima, Michiro 1998-2002

Box 13, Folder 9

Nakashima, Yoko 2003

Box 13, Folder 10

Nanavati, J.C. 1987

Box 13, Folder 11

Napolitano, Timmy 2001-2002

Box 14, Folder 1

National Geographic Magazine 1975-1986

Box 70, Folder 17

National Science Foundation Antarctic Program 1987

Box 14, Folder 2

Naylor, Wally 1981

Box 14, Folder 3

Neville, Emily C. 1981

Box 14, Folder 4

New Yorker 1982-1985

Box 14, Folder 5

Nichols, Ken 1976-1982

Box 14, Folder 6

Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association 1976-1999

Box 14, Folder 7

Ning, Xue-Han 1982-2003

Box 14, Folder 8

Nolan, Jerome T. 1987-2004

Box 14, Folder 9

N - Miscellaneous

Box 14, Folder 10

Odell, Noel 1975-1985

Box 14, Folder 11

Oelz, Oswald 1987-1988

Box 14, Folder 12

Olek, Jacques 1983

Box 14, Folder 13

Oliver, Charles D. 1978-1979

Box 14, Folder 14

Orr, Wally 1989-1990

Box 14, Folder 15

Otsuka, Nayumi 1998-2004

Box 14, Folder 16

Outward Bound 1982-1988

Box 14, Folder 17

O - Miscellaneous

Box 14, Folder 18

Pace, Nello 1957

Box 14, Folder 19

Paepcke, Walter 1988

Box 14, Folder 20

Parker, Steve 1984-1985

Box 14, Folder 21

Parkinson, Richard P. 1981-1982

Box 14, Folder 22

Parson, William 1987-1988

Box 14, Folder 23

Patient Care 1982

Box 14, Folder 24

Paton, Bruce 1976-2000

Box 15, Folder 1

Paton, Patricia 2001-2003

Box 15, Folder 2

Patterson, Bill 2001-2002

Box 71, Folder 1

Pincus, Rebecca 1997

Box 15, Folder 3

Pizzo, Christopher 1982-1986

Box 15, Folder 4

Porzak, Glenn E. 1976-1990

Box 15, Folder 5

Potter, Clarkson 1980-1981

Box 15, Folder 6

Preston, Mary 1957

Box 15, Folder 7

Prioreschi, Plinio 2002-2006

Box 15, Folder 8

P - Miscellaneous

Box 15, Folder 9

Quick, Colleen 2002

Box 15, Folder 10

Q - Miscellaneous

Box 15, Folder 11

Rahn, Hermann 1984-1987

Box 15, Folder 12

Rainer, W. Gerald (Denver Clinic) 1965-1966

Box 15, Folder 13

Rennie, Drummond 1971-2006

Box 71, Folder 2

Richalet, Jean-Paul 1993-1997

Box 15, Folder 14

Ritchie, Stephen 1993-1994

Box 15, Folder 15

Roach, Robert 1992-2005

Box 15, Folder 16

Roberts, Gilbert 1975-1987

Box 15, Folder 17

Robertson, David 1985-1987

Box 15, Folder 18

Russell, George 2004-2007

Box 15, Folder 19

Ryn, Zdzislaw 1980-1986

Box 15, Folder 20

R - Miscellaneous

Box 16, Folder 1

Sacco, Frank and Jenny 1984-1988

Box 16, Folder 2

Schoene, Robert B. 2002

Box 16, Folder 3

Schoening, Peter 1953-2004

Box 16, Folder 4

Scudder, Richard 1978-1998

Box 16, Folder 5

Serra, Joseph B. 1983

Box 16, Folder 6

Severinghaus, John 1981-2005

Box 16, Folder 7

Shriver, Robert Sargent, Jr. 1972-1973

Box 16, Folder 8

Silva, William 1984-2002

Box 16, Folder 9

Silverstein, Sam 1979-1987

Box 16, Folder 10

Singh, Inder 1970-1974

Box 71, Folder 3

Smith, Barry 1985-1986

Box 16, Folder 11

Smith, Richmond W. 1976-1987

Box 71, Folder 4

Smithsonian Magazine 1996

Box 16, Folder 12

Snelling, Richard A. 1977-1984

Box 16, Folder 13

Staum, Barry 1980-1981

Box 16, Folder 14

Stevens, Philip (National Association of the 10th Mountain Division) 1985-1989

Box 16, Folder 15

Stewart, Michael 1979-1983

Box 16, Folder 16

Stitham, Sean 1983

Box 16, Folder 17

Stone, John C. 1981-2007

Box 16, Folder 18

Stone, Kevin Robert 1976-1980

Box 16, Folder 19

Steele, Peter 1975-2002

Box 16, Folder 20

Streather, Tony 1978-1998

Box 17, Folder 1

Sturgis, Warren 1983-1989

Box 17, Folder 2-3

Sutton, John 1971-1989

Box 71, Folder 5

Sutton, John 1980-1982

Box 71, Folder 6

Sutton, John 1986-1992

Box 17, Folder 4

Swetland, David and Timmy 1976-1986

Box 17, Folder 5

Szygula, Zbigniew 1984-1987

Box 17, Folder 6

S - Miscellaneous

Box 17, Folder 7

Talbott, John 1979

Box 17, Folder 8

Terris, Milton 1982-1983

Box 17, Folder 9

Thexton, Pete 1982-1983

Box 17, Folder 10

Thexton, Robina 1984-1985

Box 17, Folder 11

Thomas, Lowell 1973-1981

Box 17, Folder 12

Thompson, Warren C. 1983-1984

Box 71, Folder 7

Tilman, Harold William 1972-1974

Box 17, Folder 13

Tkatchouk, Elena 2002-2006

Box 17, Folder 14

T - Miscellaneous

Box 71, Folder 8

University of Vermont - Department of Community Medicine 1966-1971

Box 17, Folder 15

U - Miscellaneous

Box 17, Folder 16

Venables, Stephen 1988-2003

Box 71, Folder 9

Vosk, Arno 1974-1977

Box 17, Folder 17

V - Miscellaneous

Box 17, Folder 18

Ward, Michael 1975-1976

Box 17, Folder 19

Washburn, Bradford 1979-2006

Box 17, Folder 20

Watanabe, Jennifer 2003-2005

Box 17, Folder 21

Waterman, Johnathan 1983-1989

Box 17, Folder 22

Waterman, Laura 1984-2004

Box 17, Folder 23

Weiss, Daniel 2002-2004

Box 18, Folder 1

West, John 2000-2001

Box 18, Folder 2

Westmacott, Sally 1975-1983

Box 18, Folder 3

Wheeler, Henry 1982

Box 18, Folder 4

Wheelock, Naomi and Larry Yohn 1982-1983

Box 18, Folder 5

Wickwire, James 1980-1987

Box 18, Folder 6

Whitner, Sara 2007

Box 18, Folder 7

Wiedman, Michael 1987-2003

Box 18, Folder 8

Wilkerson, Jim 1995-2007

Restrictions

Includes floppy disc.
Box 18, Folder 9

Williams, Andy 1984-2006

Box 18, Folder 10

Williamson, Jed 1984-2007

Box 18, Folder 11

Wilson, Rodman 1977-1989

Box 18, Folder 12

Wiltsie, Gordon 1999

Box 18, Folder 13

Winkler, Ken 1984-1989

Box 71, Folder 10

Wohns, Richard 1984

Box 18, Folder 14

Wortsman, Peter 2002-2006

Box 18, Folder 15

Wroblewski, Lech 1978-1984

Box 18, Folder 16

W- Miscellaneous

Box 18, Folder 17

Yarmolinsky, Adam 1968

Box 18, Folder 18

Yoshizawa, Ichiro 1975-1978

Box 18, Folder 19

Yosemite National Institute 2004-2007

Box 18, Folder 20

Young, Michael 1977-1988

Box 18, Folder 21

Yoder, Ruth 1981-1990

Box 18, Folder 22

Zheng, Zhao 1992-1993

Box 18, Folder 23

X-Z - Miscellaneous

Box 71, Folder 11

Miscellaneous. Odell, Tilman, Loomis, Emmons, Hogkin, and Graham Brown diaries 1945

Box 71, Folder 12

Miscellaneous. Nanda Devi 1929-1948

Box 18, Folder 24

Unidentified

 

Altitude Illness Case Records

Box 19, Folder 1-4

Numbers, 1-132

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 19, Folder 5

Part 1 1977-2000

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 20, Folder 1

Part 2 1977-2000

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 20, Folder 2

Case studies - Kenya 1972-1982

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 20, Folder 3

Alvin DeMaria case study 1973-1977

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 20, Folder 4

Cold injury - Patrick Kilfeather case study 1971-1974

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 71, Folder 13

Colorado altitude illness cases 1972-1993

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 20, Folder 5

Lance Elwell case study 1978-1979

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 20, Folder 6

Ron Russell case study. Herbert Hultgren consultant 1990

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 20, Folder 7-8

Shawn Wight case study and deposition 1977-2000

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions apply.
Box 21, Folder 1-2

Women climbers

 

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS: Newspaper articles featuring Houston, photographs, biographies, and memorabilia. Arranged alphabetically.
Box 21, Folder 3

Articles about Charles Houston

Box 21, Folder 4-5

Awards and degree certificates 1935-2006

General

Includes correspondence and photographs.
Oversize FB-529, Folder 1-2

Awards and degree certificates 1931-2003

Box 71, Folder 14

Awards and degree certificates - King Albert Medal of Merit 1996-1997

General

Includes correspondence.
Box 21, Folder 6

Calendars 1994-1997

Box 21, Folder 7

Houston family genealogy

Box 21, Folder 8

Maie Bowle 2001-2008

Box 22, Folder 1

Mount Everest memorabilia

 

Photographs

Box 22, Folder 2

Charles Houston

Box 22, Folder 3

Charles Houston with others

Oversize FB-529, Folder 3

Charles Houston group photographs 1939 and undated

Box 22, Folder 4

Family

Box 22, Folder 5

Visit to Italy with Kiely Houston

Box 22, Folder 6

United State Naval Air Station, Jacksonville 1942

Box 72, Folder 1

University of Vermont, College of Medicine - Curriculum writings 1967-1970

Box 72, Folder 2-3

University of Vermont, Multi-Problem Family student program "Environment and Health" 1974-1976

Box 22, Folder 7

United States Navy - Separation papers 1941-1950

 

PEACE CORPS OF INDIA

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) PEACE CORPS OF INDIA: Charles Houston was the director of the Volunteer Doctor Program for the Peace Corps of India from 1962-1965. The files represent correspondence, personal notebooks, field reports, photographs, and various publications from the program.
Box 22, Folder 8

Chowkidar Newsletter and other writing 1963-1964

 

Correspondence

Box 22, Folder 9-10

1961-1969

Box 23, Folder 1-2

1974-1989

Box 23, Folder 3

Letters to friends 1963-1965

Box 72, Folder 4-5

Letters to friends 1966-1970

Box 23, Folder 4

Doctor's meetings and conferences 1964-1966

Box 23, Folder 5

India Overseas Evaluation March 31, 1965

Box 23, Folder 6

Midterm Conference Report May 1966

Box 23, Folder 7

News Circle 1961-1964

Box 24, Folder 1

Notebooks 1965-1966

Box 24, Folder 2

Original personal reports of India I and II volunteers 1963-1964

 

Photographs

Box 24, Folder 3

Ben Gates, Roorkee, India - Toyshop, New Delhi 1964

Box 24, Folder 4

John Kenneth Galbraith, United States Ambassador to India 1965

Box 24, Folder 5-8

Miscellaneous 1965

Box 24, Folder 9

Public health services map of Nepal

Box 24, Folder 10

Session reports 1964

Box 25, Folder 1

Speeches, publications, and other writings 1965

Box 72, Folder 6

Speech 1975

Box 25, Folder 2

Three-month work reports October-December, 1963

Box 25, Folder 3

Travel schedules 1962-1964

 

HIGH ALTITUDE RESEARCH

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) HIGH ALTITUDE RESEARCH. Arranged in four subseries: A) Operation Everest I, B) Operation Everest II, C) Mount Logan High Altitude Physiology Study, and D) Other.
A) Operation Everest I: Operation Everest I (1963-1965) was a research experiment facilitated by the United States Naval Air Station while Houston was stationed in Pensacola, Florida. The long-range study recorded the effects of high altitude acclimation on humans in a simulated environment. The Navy later published the findings in several reports. The materials include correspondence, articles, photographs, and reports.
B) Operation Everest II: In 1985, Charles Houston, along with John Sutton and Allen Cymerman, conducted a high altitude medical experiment at the United States Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) altitude chambers in Natick, Massachusetts. The project studied human responses to a simulated 40-day ascent of Mt. Everest, facilitating a large number of investigations across several organ systems. The materials include correspondence over the course of several years, planning documents, data documentation, photographs, and publications.
C) Mount Logan High Altitude Physiology Study: The study was initiated by Houston and supported by the Arctic Institute of North America, lasting over several decades. The research investigated the process of human acclimation to high altitude on Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan, in the Yukon Territory. The materials include the grant proposals, correspondence, research data and reports, and photographs.
D) Other: Houston conducted several other research experiments on high altitude, including the Mount Washington High Altitude and Hypoxia Project and the Icefield Ranges Research Project. This subseries also contains bulletins and correspondence related to the American Alpine Club expedition to the Karakorum summit in Mongolia.
 

Operation Everest I

Box 25, Folder 4

Acclimation Project - Research no. x-720, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida 1946

Box 26, Folder 1

Acclimation Project - Research no. 720 - Notes 1946

Box 26, Folder 2

Army Air Forces of Aviation Medicine - Project reports 1944-1945

Box 26, Folder 3

Aviator's Flight log book 1942

Box 26, Folder 4

Booklet 1946

Box 26, Folder 5

Charts and tables 1946

Box 26, Folder 6

Correspondence 1943-1986

Box 26, Folder 7

News clippings 1946

Box 26, Folder 8

Operation Everest and Reports - Emergency Breathing Procedures, Hyperventilation Runs, Deaths from Anoxia in Aircraft 1944-1947

Box 26, Folder 9

Photographs 1946

Box 26, Folder 10

Published articles 1946-1948

Box 27, Folder 1

Reports and observations 1945-1946

 

Operation Everest II

Box 27, Folder 2

Advisory Committee 1982-1985

Box 27, Folder 3

"Alveolar and Arterial Blood Gases at Extreme Altitude" - Draft 1987-1988

Box 27, Folder 4

Biomedical Studies during a Simulated Ascent of Mount Everest, December 1991

 

Correspondence

Box 27, Folder 5

1982 1982

Box 28, Folder 1-2

1983-1989

Box 72, Folder 7

1991-1996

Box 28, Folder 3

Database 1986-1989

Box 28, Folder 4-5

Financial 1985-1988

Box 28, Folder 6

Foundation 1984-1988

 

Participant

Box 28, Folder 7

Alexander, James 1982-1986

Box 28, Folder 8

Andracki, Stephen 1983-1987

Box 29, Folder 1-4

Anholm, Jim 1982-1990

Box 29, Folder 5

Banderet, Louis E

Box 29, Folder 6

Bangs, Peter 1985-1987

Box 29, Folder 7

Billip, Jim 1983-1985

Box 29, Folder 8

Blume, Duane 1983-1984

Box 29, Folder 9

Butzier, Douglas 1983

Box 29, Folder 10

Campaigne, Barbara 1983-1984

Box 29, Folder 11

Carter, Jonathan

Box 29, Folder 12

Coates, Geoffre

Box 29, Folder 13

Cymerman, Al

Box 30, Folder 1

Cymerman, Al and John Sutton 1983-1985

Box 30, Folder 2

Degnan, Peter 1983-1985

Box 30, Folder 3

Devine, James A

Box 30, Folder 4

Donner, Howard

Box 72, Folder 8

Drummond, Rennie 1973-1974

Box 30, Folder 5

Ezekiel, Pat 1982-1983

Box 30, Folder 6

Fitzgerald, Patricia 1983

Box 30, Folder 7

Fulco, Charles 1983

Box 30, Folder 8

Garner, Scott

Box 30, Folder 9

Gough, Roger 1984-1988

Box 30, Folder 10

Gray, Gary 1984

Box 30, Folder 11

Groves, Bertron M

Box 30, Folder 12

Hackett, Peter

Box 30, Folder 13-14

Hornbein, Tom

Box 30, Folder 15

Hultgren, Herbert

Box 31, Folder 1

Hultgren, Herbert

Box 31, Folder 2

Jones, Jeffrey 1983

Box 31, Folder 3

Knapik, Joseph 1983

Box 31, Folder 4

Lahiri, Sukhamay 1983-1984

Box 31, Folder 5

Lapkass, Andrew 1983-1987

Box 31, Folder 6

Libby, Christopher 1983

Box 31, Folder 7

Malconian, Mark

Box 31, Folder 8

McGuire, Michael 1983-1985

Box 31, Folder 9-10

Meehan, Richard T

Box 31, Folder 11

Meyer, Eric 1984-1987

Box 31, Folder 12

Muscarella, James 1984-1985

Box 31, Folder 13

O'Brodovich, Hugh

Box 31, Folder 14

Painter, Steve 1985-1986

Box 31, Folder 15

Pappenheimer, John 1984

Box 31, Folder 16

Pelchat, Michael 1984

Box 31, Folder 17

Powles, Peter

Box 31, Folder 18

Pulley, Don 1984

Box 32, Folder 1

Ramsey, Thomas 1984-1985

Box 32, Folder 2-3

Reeves, John

Box 32, Folder 4

Rock, Paul

Box 32, Folder 5-6

Rose, Madeleine

Box 32, Folder 7

Sater, John 1985-1986

Box 32, Folder 8

Sawyer, Mike 1983

Box 32, Folder 9

Schifrin, Ben 1983-1987

Box 32, Folder 10-11

Schoene, Robert

Box 33, Folder 1-5

Sutton, John 1982-1987

Box 33, Folder 6

Teves, Marilyn 1983

Box 33, Folder 7

Tremblay, John 1983

Box 33, Folder 8

Wagner, Peter

Box 33, Folder 9

Welton, Greg 1985-1986

Box 34, Folder 1

West, John

Box 34, Folder 2

Williams, James 1983-1985

Box 34, Folder 3

Woodland, John 1984-1987

Box 34, Folder 4

Young, Patricia

 

Data

Box 34, Folder 5

Baseline data - Intake, Output Exercise 1985

Box 34, Folder 6

Biodata on Andraki, Gough, and Lapkass 1985

Box 34, Folder 7

Biodata on Meyer, Schiffren, Woodland, Painter 1985

Box 34, Folder 8

Cardiac Catheterization procedures 1986

Box 35, Folder 1-3

Data notebook 1985

Box 35, Folder 4

Database procedures 1985

Box 35, Folder 5

Miscellaneous data summaries 1985

Box 35, Folder 6

Original data sheets for creation of CSH1 1987

Box 35, Folder 7

Swan-Ganz Inert Gas Study 1985

Box 36, Folder 1

Ventilatory testing and exercise 1985

Box 36, Folder 2

Effects of a Simulated Ascent to 29,000 feet on Nutrition and Body Composition, May 1987

Box 36, Folder 3

Equipment and supply research 1985

Box 36, Folder 4-5

Historical documents 1982-1985

Box 36, Folder 6

"How it All Began" - Book proposal and drafts 1990-1991

Box 36, Folder 7

Notebook 1985

Box 37, Folder 1-5

Photographs

Box 38, Folder 1

Planning and history documents 1982-185

Box 38, Folder 2

Proposal booklet 1985

Box 38, Folder 3

Rejection letters 1984

 

A Study of Human Acclimatization to Hypobaric Hypoxia

Box 38, Folder 4

Final report 1988

Box 38, Folder 5

Master grant file 1983-1985

Box 38, Folder 6

Proposal and correspondence 1982-1991

Box 38, Folder 7

Subject inquiries 1983-1987

Box 38, Folder 8

Tables and charts

Box 39, Folder 1-2

Testing schedules and calendars 1982-1985

Box 39, Folder 3

"This is Going to be Harder than I Thought" 1985

Box 39, Folder 4

"Too Little Air" - Draft manuscript with John Sutton on Operation Everest II 1988

Box 39, Folder 5

Work list, November 1985

 

Mount Logan High Altitude Physiology Study (HAPS)

Box 39, Folder 6

1974 Mount Logan High Altitude Physiology Study, September 1974

Box 39, Folder 7

Applicant rejection letters 1973-1974

Box 39, Folder 8

Budgets 1979

Box 40, Folder 1

Complete file 1967-1979

 

Correspondence

Box 40, Folder 2-6

1966-1971

Box 41, Folder 1-6

1971-1980

Box 41, Folder 7

Correspondence and reports 1969

Box 42, Folder 1

Anders, Allan 1974

Box 42, Folder 2

Aquadero, Chip 1974

Box 42, Folder 3

Auders, Uldis 1974

Box 42, Folder 4

Drummond, Rennie and Regina Fraser 1969-1974

Box 42, Folder 5

Hackett, Steve 1974-1975

Box 42, Folder 6

Jahnigan, Denise 1974-1975

Box 42, Folder 7

LaBelle, Joe and Suzie 1973-1974

Box 42, Folder 8

LaBelle, Joe and Thomas Stengle 1971-1972

Box 42, Folder 9

Maher, John 1976-1978

Box 42, Folder 10

Marshall, Philip 1974

Box 42, Folder 11

Stengle, Casey 1973-1974

Box 42, Folder 12

Wiedemann, Herb 1974

Box 72, Folder 9

Diary of Charles Houston 1968

Box 73, Folder 1-6

Diary of Charles Houston 1969-1975

Box 42, Folder 13

Diary of Charles Houston 1976

Box 43, Folder 1

Diet and data sheets 1974

Box 43, Folder 2

Financial 1974-1979

Box 43, Folder 3

Grant correspondence with reports 1977-1979

Box 43, Folder 4-5

Grant file 1969-1977

Box 44, Folder 1

Grant memoranda 1970-1974

Box 44, Folder 2

Grant proposals and protocols 1970-1971

Box 44, Folder 3

History 1966-1970

Box 44, Folder 4

Human Physiology at 5360 meters - Mountain Environment - Revised proposal 1978-1981

Box 44, Folder 5

Inventory 1973

Box 44, Folder 6

Logbook

Box 44, Folder 7

Logs and schedules 1977-1979

Box 45, Folder 1

Maps

Box 45, Folder 2

Medication protocol 1974

Box 45, Folder 3

Miscellaneous reports and grant proposals 1974-1978

Box 45, Folder 4

Mount Logan Song Book 1977

Box 45, Folder 5

Notes

Box 45, Folder 6-11

Photographs 1969-1979

Box 45, Folder 12

Protocols 1977-1978

Box 45, Folder 13

Renin data 1974

Box 45, Folder 14

Reports and data 1970

Box 46, Folder 1

Reports and data 1971-1975

Box 46, Folder 2

Retinal Hemorrhage and Changes in Retinal Circulation at High Altitude 1968-1970

Box 46, Folder 3

Seminars program 1977

 

Other Research

 

Icefield Ranges Research Project

Box 46, Folder 4

Advisory Committee - Medical briefing papers 1973 October

Box 46, Folder 5-6

Correspondence 1970-1972

Box 46, Folder 7

Financial 1970-1972

Box 46, Folder 8

Photographs 1970-1971

 

Mount Washington High Altitude, Hypoxia, and Patients with Chronic Pulmonary Disease

Box 46, Folder 9

Articles and reports 1975

Box 46, Folder 10

Correspondence 1972-1975

Box 47, Folder 1-2

Correspondence 1976-1980

Box 47, Folder 3

Patient notes and data 1978

Box 47, Folder 4

American Alpine Club Karakorum Expedition - Bulletins 1938

Box 47, Folder 5

American Alpine Club Third American Karakorum Expedition - Correspondence and finances 1953-1954

 

American Medical Expedition to Mount Everest Mountain Travel Trek

Box 73, Folder 7-8

Correspondence 1979-1981

Box 47, Folder 6

Correspondence 1981

Box 73, Folder 9

Diary 1981

Box 73, Folder 10

Schedules 1981

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) WRITINGS: Reprints, articles, essays, and book chapters written or co-authored by Houston. Arranged in three subseries: A) Reprints, B) Articles and Essays, and C) Miscellaneous.
A) Reprints: Published reprints and typescripts, dating from 1945-2003. Organized chronologically.
B) Articles and Essays: Unpublished writings, draft ideas, and commentaries.
C) Miscellaneous: Writings and edits by Houston for book chapters, historical writings on high altitude mountaineering, and miscellaneous drafts.
 

Reprints

Box 47, Folder 7

Publications list

Box 47, Folder 8-10

1935 - 1977

Box 48, Folder 1-4

1978 - 1997

 

Articles and Essays

Box 48, Folder 5

Account collection of the Hunza region

Box 48, Folder 6-8

Autobiography chapter notes and correspondence 1971-1975

Box 49, Folder 1-4

Autobiography chapter drafts 1993-1995

Box 74, Folder 1

"Breathtaking: The Story of Man, Mountain, and Oxygen" - Draft WGBH program idea 1990

Box 49, Folder 5-7

Brotherhood of the Rope - Agreements 2001-2007

Box 74, Folder 2

Burlington Free Press articles 1983

Box 50, Folder 1

Composition of Alveolar Air and Volume of Pulmonary Ventilation during Long Exposure to High Altitude with R.L. Riley 1946

Box 50, Folder 2

"Computer Model of Hypoxic Man" - Draft 1981

Box 74, Folder 3

Current Pulmonology - "Man at Extreme Altitude" - Chapter 1984

Box 74, Folder 4

Discussion about International Hypoxia Symposium 1997

Box 74, Folder 5

"Does Altitude Exercise Training Enhance Sea Level Performance?" - Draft and correspondence 1992

Box 50, Folder 3-7

Essays 1965-2008

Box 50, Folder 8

"Exercise at Extreme Altitude" - Correspondence 1989

Box 50, Folder 9

"From the Mountains to the Labs" 1992

Box 74, Folder 6

"Getting into It" - Consultant 1970

 

Going High: The Story of Man and Altitude

Box 50, Folder 10

Budget and schedule 1980

 

Correspondence

Box 50, Folder 11

Baty, Shirley 1980

Box 50, Folder 12

Mountaineers Books 1979-1981

Box 50, Folder 13

Potential publishers 1975-1980

Box 50, Folder 14

Scott, Andrea 1980

Box 50, Folder 15

Second edition 2002

Box 50, Folder 16

Illustration outlines

Box 51, Folder 1

Manuscript comments -Grant Barnes 1976-1980

Box 74, Folder 7-8

Preliminary drafts 1976

Box 51, Folder 2

Response letters 1980-1985

Box 51, Folder 3

Reviews 1980-1983

Box 51, Folder 4

Translation letters 1980-1984

 

Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Medicine

Box 51, Folder 5

Correspondence 1985-1986

Box 51, Folder 6

Revisions 2004

Box 51, Folder 7

"Golden Ages" - Draft 1984

Box 51, Folder 8

Health and Doctor essays 1960-1961

Box 51, Folder 9

"Health hints for Travellers" 1971

Box 74, Folder 9

Heat Stroke and Heat Exhaustion. Merck Manual 1985

Box 74, Folder 10

High Adventure: The Romance between Medicine and Mountaineering 1993

Box 74, Folder 11

High Altitude Cerebral Edema - Allen Cymerman edits 1997

Box 75, Folder 1-2

High Altitude Cerebral Edema - Drafts 1997

Box 75, Folder 3

High altitude historical research

Box 51, Folder 10

"High Altitude Illness" - Draft and correspondence 1976

Box 75, Folder 4

"High Altitude Illness" - Mountaineering Books correspondence 1997

Box 75, Folder 5

High Altitude Illness - Yosemite 1977

 

High Altitude Physiology Study

Box 52, Folder 1

Collected papers 1967

Box 52, Folder 2

Commonwealth fund grant 1974-1975

Box 52, Folder 3-4

Permissions correspondence 1980

Box 52, Folder 5-6

Rennie, Drummon - Correspondence 1975-1976

Box 52, Folder 7

"History of Military Operations in the Mountain Environment" - Draft and correspondence 1996

Box 53, Folder 1

"How Fast is Slow Enough?"

Box 53, Folder 2

How Hypoxia Affects the Cell - Book chapter 2002-2003

 

K2: The Savage Mountain

Box 53, Folder 3

Concept draft 1953

Box 53, Folder 4

Correspondence - Publishing agreements 2000

Box 75, Folder 6

Video script 1993

 

K2 Broadway play

Box 53, Folder 5

Historical material and correspondence 1983-1984

Box 53, Folder 6-7

Playbill and reviews 1983-1984

Box 75, Folder 7

Kathmandu - Nepal - Diary 1985

Box 53, Folder 8

"Lessons from Research at High Altitude" - Typescript 1993

Box 53, Folder 9

"Man and His Environment" - Seminar idea 1961

Box 75, Folder 8

Mediastinal Emphysema in Mountain Climbers 1973

Box 53, Folder 10

Miscellaneous edited drafts

Box 53, Folder 11

Miscellaneous writings

Box 76, Folder 1-3

Miscellaneous writings

Box 53, Folder 12

Mount Everest - Denali National Park 1994-2004

Box 53, Folder 13

"A Mountain Episode" - Typescript draft

Box 54, Folder 1

"Nanda Devi" - Draft. Includes photographic material 1992

Box 54, Folder 2

Novel typescript about India 1963-1965

Box 75, Folder 9

Operation Everest I and II article 1997

Box 54, Folder 3

"Outcome of Ambulatory Care - Retrospective Study of Exeter Clinic" - Draft and edits 1973

Box 54, Folder 4

"Outcome Study": An Assessment of the Quality, Perceived, and Real of Hospital Care at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont

Box 76, Folder 4

Personal thoughts for the future

Box 54, Folder 5

Retinal Pathology due to Hypoxia, June 1973

Box 54, Folder 6

"Risks and Rewards on Mountains" 1996

Box 54, Folder 7

"Romance of Mountaineering and Medicine" - Typescript 1994

Box 54, Folder 8

Some notes on altitude sickness 1975

Box 76, Folder 5

Some observations on Acclimatization to High Altitude

Box 54, Folder 9

Statement to Members Board of Health Systems, Inc. (Vermont) and supplemental materials 1971

Box 54, Folder 10

"Traveller's Diarrhea," Backpacker Magazine, Drafts 1979

Box 54, Folder 11

Various illustrations

Box 54, Folder 12

Vermont Medical Society - Health issues commentary 1992-2002

Box 54, Folder 13

Video ideas

Box 54, Folder 14

"Viewpoint on Sir Edmund Hillary" 1977

Box 54, Folder 15

Yosemite National Institutes: The First Twenty-Five Years-A History 1996

Box 54, Folder 16

Writings on Diamox

 

Miscellaneous

Box 55, Folder 1

Dunn, Frederick. "Mountaineering and Explorations in the Karakoram Range 1957

Box 76, Folder 6

High Altitude Physiology Bibliography 1993

Box 55, Folder 2-4

Hultgren, Herbert. "High Altitude Pulmonary Edema" - Edits

Box 55, Folder 5

Longstaff, T.G. "Mountain Sickness and its Probable Causes" 1906

Box 76, Folder 7

Miscellaneous writings with others

 

Molenaar, Dee

Box 55, Folder 6

"K2 Diary 1953: with Sketchbook" 1994

Box 55, Folder 7

"Life and Times of a Mountain Wanderer" 2001

Box 55, Folder 8

Miscellaneous writings 1993

Box 55, Folder 9

"Six Weeks on K2" 2001

Box 55, Folder 10

Selected bibliography of others

Box 76, Folder 8

Sherpa interview transcripts 1982

Box 76, Folder 9

Tilman, William H. - Nanda Devi Diaries 1934-1936

Box 55, Folder 11

Writings by Dorcas Houston

 

GRANTS AND RESEARCH

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) GRANTS AND RESEARCH: Materials range from formal multi-participant grant funded studies to individual scientific subject-based analysis. The files, arranged alphabetically by topic or title of research, document research conducted between 1960-1991. One notable research project included is Houston's testing and experimentation with artificial heart pumps.
Box 56, Folder 1-2

Altitude Adaption in Chronic Lung Disease with William Graham - Grant proposal materials 1975-1978

 

Artificial Heart Research

 

Correspondence

Box 56, Folder 3-6

1958-1962

Box 56, Folder 7

Eiseman, Ben 1958-1962

Box 56, Folder 8

Rainer, Gerald 1962-1963

Box 56, Folder 9

Dog surgeries 1962-1963

Box 57, Folder 1

Newspaper clippings 1959-1961

Box 57, Folder 2

Photographs

Box 57, Folder 3

Research articles 1960-1963

Box 57, Folder 4

Specifications 1961-1962

Box 57, Folder 5

Tracings

Box 57, Folder 6-8

Effect of Exercise on the Incidence and Severity of Acute Mountain Sickness - Grant materials 1989-1991

Box 57, Folder 9

Effects of Hypoxia on Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Grant proposal 1974

Box 58, Folder 1

Hypothermia thermometers - Correspondence 1979-1980

Box 58, Folder 2-3

Long-term effects of high altitude - Study 1976-1977

Box 58, Folder 4

National Institutes of Health - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Long term study of acclimation proposal 1960-1961

Box 58, Folder 5

Partial Adaptation to High Altitude in a Decompression Chamber - Proposals 1976-1977

 

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) LECTURES AND CONFERENCES: High altitude study and mountaineering conference materials, including programs and drafts of lectures and talks by Houston.
Box 58, Folder 6

1st World Congress on High Altitude Medicine and Physiology, "Romance between Mountaineering and Medicine," Bolivia 1994

Box 58, Folder 7

5th Annual Conference on Research in Emphysema - "Normal and Abnormal Pulmonary Circulation," June 1962

Box 58, Folder 8

6th International Hypoxia Symposium - "Fifty Years of Going Higher," Alberta, February 21-25 1989

Box 77, Folder 1

10th International Hypoxia Symposium, Sydney, Australia 1997

Box 58, Folder 9

12th International Hypoxia Symposium - "From Bancroft to Bedside," Alberta, Canada, March 10-14 2001

Box 58, Folder 10

13th Biennial International Hypoxia Symposium, Banff, Canada 2003

Box 58, Folder 11

15th International Festival of Mountaineering Literature, London 2001

Box 58, Folder 12

53rd International Film Festival of Mountain, Exploration, and Adventure, Italy 2005

Box 58, Folder 13

2001 Emergency Medical Services Conference, Vermont, "Ricks and Rewards on Mountains" 2001

Box 59, Folder 1

Annapurna Premier 8000, Chamonix, France - "Historical Aspect of the Medicine of Expedition and Altitude" 1990

Box 59, Folder 2

Banff Mountain Film Festival 2002-2005

Box 77, Folder 2

Banff Mountain Medicine - Plans 1976

Box 77, Folder 3

Harvard University Club - Talk

Box 77, Folder 4

Hypothermia - Talk 1997

Box 59, Folder 3-4

International Hypoxia Symposium - Miscellaneous photographs 1981

Box 59, Folder 5

Mountain Medicine and Physiology, North Wales, February 1975

Box 59, Folder 6

National Outdoor Leadership School, Wyoming - Photographs 1992

Box 59, Folder 7

New Hampshire Heart Association Annual Meeting and Public Symposium, "Heart Disease in a Capsule," October 9 1956

Box 77, Folder 5

Physiological Lessons of Everest, Family Medicine Interest Group 1996

Box 59, Folder 8

University of Washington - Mountaineering talk 2002

Box 59, Folder 9

Yosemite Institute Mountain Medicine Symposium - Correspondence, October-November 1975

Box 77, Folder 6-8

Yosemite Institute Mountain Medicine Symposium 1976

Box 78, Folder 1-2

Yosemite Institute Mountain Medicine Symposium 1977-1980

Box 78, Folder 3

Miscellaneous talks 1947-1972

Box 59, Folder 10-12

Miscellaneous slides and photographs

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Documents from the Snake River Health Clinic (SRHC) and the Colorado Altitude Research Institute (CARI), both established by Houston.
 

Colorado Altitude Research Institute

Box 60, Folder 1

Veterans of the Tenth Mountain Division 50th Reunion - Program 1992

Box 60, Folder 2

Notes

Box 78, Folder 4

Correspondence 1991

Box 78, Folder 5

Bibliography of High Altitude Medicine 1992

Box 60, Folder 3-6

Rocky Mountain Traumatological Society - Bylaws, meeting minutes, and correspondence 1973-1974

 

Shipton-Tilman Awards

Box 60, Folder 7-8

Applicants 2000

Box 78, Folder 6

Applicants, Mc-Z 2001

Box 61, Folder 1-2

Correspondence and applicants 2001-2002

Box 61, Folder 3-4

Snake River Health Services 1993-2006

 

IMAGES AND RECORDINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 9) IMAGES AND RECORDINGS: Includes slides; audiocassettes of interviews and conferences from Houston's tenure in the Peace Corps of India; recorded videotape from conferences and mountaineering events and programs, including the K2 mountaineering expedition; and reel-to-reel tapes of the Operation Everest I high altitude simulated experiment.
Descriptions found in the folder list were transcribed from original enclosures and have not been verified. Arranged in subseries by format.
 

Slides

Box 61, Folder 5-7

Oxygen series

Box 62, Folder 1-5

Oxygen series

 

Audiocassettes

Box 63, Folder 1

Early days of practice, Exeter, 1947-1957

Box 63, Folder 2

K2 Expedition 1953 August 16

Box 63, Folder 3-6

K2 Expedition base camp 1953

Box 63, Folder 7

Peace Corps and Sargent Shriver 1962

Box 63, Folder 8-10

Coates Redmon discussing Peace Corps 1976

Box 63, Folder 11

Operation Everest II on KPBS / NPR interview with Peter Wagner 1985

Box 63, Folder 12

High Altitude Physiology - "Operation Everest, an Overview." American College of Sports and Medicine Annual Meeting 33rd Annual Meeting 1986

Box 63, Folder 13

Mount McKinley, Altitude Sickness 1988

Box 63, Folder 14

American Alpine Club 1990

Box 63, Folder 15

"Lessons of the Past Illuminate the Future and Hazards for the Elderly Adventurer." 2nd Wilderness Society Conference 1992

Box 63, Folder 16

"High Adventure: A History of Mountaineering and Research." American College of Sports and Medicine Annual Meeting 1993

Box 63, Folder 17

Charles Houston interview November 6, 1998

Box 63, Folder 18

Nanda Devi Expedition, 1936. K2 Expeditions, 1938 & 1953 - Recorded April 1999

Box 63, Folder 19

Acclimatization chapter transcription June 24, 2003

Box 63, Folder 20

Acclimatization chapter - Introduction, 2003. Health August - September 2003

Box 63, Folder 21

"Mountaineers World" book chapter draft dictation 2003

Box 63, Folder 22

Charles Houston to Bernadette McDonald 2004

Box 64, Folder 1

National Geographic article re. survival in adverse conditions, hypoxia 2004

Box 64, Folder 2

Mai Bowle - Critique 2006

Box 64, Folder 3

Robert Bates memorial service, October 6, 2007. Memo to Thomas Hornbein, re. future of research center

Box 64, Folder 4

Speaking out on war, risk and death 2007

Box 64, Folder 5

Letter to Peter Hackett, re. oxygen, 2008. Other mountaineering testimony

Box 64, Folder 6

Stories about K2 expedition. Mai Bowle comments 2008

Box 64, Folder 7

American Alpine Club symposium undated

Box 64, Folder 8

Bruce Paton reading Hooke, Berti, Tilman undated

Box 64, Folder 9-11

Charles Houston interviewed by Stan Boucher August 24, 2000

Box 64, Folder 12

Dudley Wolf's last days on K2 (1939) - Draft proposal for documentary undated

Box 64, Folder 13

H.W. Tilman on mountaineering undated

Box 64, Folder 14

Introduction to chronic mountain sickness - Draft transcription undated

Box 64, Folder 15

K2 Expedition base camp... Craig talking start at base camp undated

Box 64, Folder 16

Letters to friends, dictated undated

Box 64, Folder 17

Metanoia Summary - An Integrated Program of Education, Dialogue and Community Service Focused on Healthcare Inequality Access undated

Box 64, Folder 18

Money...Every civilization has its basis in money - Dictation undated

Box 64, Folder 19

Peace Corps history dictation undated

Box 64, Folder 20

References for High Altitude Medicine book, revised script undated

Box 64, Folder 21

Sargent Shriver farewell dinner (Peace Corps) undated

Box 64, Folder 22

"Tilting of the Healthcare Windmill" undated

 

LPs

Oversize OM-1, Folder 2

Captain Iverson introducing Dr. Houston and Admiral Wagner, Operation Everest I

Oversize OM-1, Folder 3

Bob Ackerely interviews Sir Edmund Hillary 1954

Oversize OM-1, Folder 4-5

K2 Base Camp 1953

 

Reel-to-reel Recordings

 

Comprehensive Clinic - 5" reels

Box 65, Folder 1

Accident, October 6, 1967 (side 2) & Follow up on Accident Clinic, October 6-19, 1967 (side 1)

Box 65, Folder 2

Patient with Myocardial infarction, December 15, 1967 (side 1) & Abortion, January 19, 1968 (side 2)

Box 65, Folder 3

Death 1968 February 14

Box 65, Folder 4

Anatomy of an Accident 1968 October 15

Box 65, Folder 5

"Abortion and the Law," Father Robert F. Drinan, Dean of Boston College Law School - 5" reel 1968 November 20

Box 65, Folder 6

Conference on Social Change, especially in Vermont - 5" reel undated

Box 65, Folder 7

Medical? undated

Box 65, Folder 8

[Title illegible] 1958 September 10,17,

Box 65, Folder 9

Dr. Hansen & Dr. Burney[?] 1960 March 22

Box 65, Folder 10

American College of Chest Physicians Meeting 1960 October

Box 65, Folder 11

Dr. Blackman & Dr. Cook 1960 December 8

Box 65, Folder 12

Medicine of the future ca. 1960

Box 65, Folder 13

Shriver farewell 1966 March 1

Box 65, Folder 14

Northern Showcase, "Take Me to the Mountains" undated

Box 65, Folder 15

Interregional Conference undated

Box 65, Folder 16

C.S. Houston - Heart sounds undated

Box 65, Folder 17

Medical? undated

Box 65, Folder 18

Unlabeled 7" reel

 

Video and Film

Box 66, Folder 1

Honnedaga and India 1935-1936

Box 66, Folder 2

Nanda Devi 1936

Box 66, Folder 3

Unidentified "rough cut" 1938

Box 66, Folder 4-5

K2 1938

Box 66, Folder 6

Operation Everest 1936

Box 66, Folder 7-9

"Threshold of Performance," Mount Logan High Altitude Study 1977

Box 66, Folder 10

"Threshold of Performance," Mount Logan High Altitude Study [U-matic] 1977

Box 66, Folder 11

International Historical-Scientific Conference - "Cento anni della Capanna Osservatorio Regina Margherita High Mountain Medicine, Glaciology, Atmospheric Physics" 1993 August 27-28

Box 66, Folder 12

Memorial service for Professor John Sutton 1996 February 27

Box 66, Folder 13

Nanda Devi, 1936 - CSH edit 1997 June

Box 66, Folder 14

"Crags & Crinolines" - Hypoxia Symposium 1997 February

Box 66, Folder 15

"Mountains and Medicine" - Bioscience lecture by Houston 1997 April 14

Box 66, Folder 16

American K2 reunion 1998 November 20-22

Box 66, Folder 17

Nanda Devi & K2 - Sound only 1999 April

Box 66, Folder 18-19

Nanda Devi Trek 2000

Box 66, Folder 20

Liym[?] talk - Nanda Devi, Everest, K2 2002 March

Box 66, Folder 21

Exploring the Heights, rough cut 2002 August

Box 66, Folder 22

Houston's mountaineering expeditions & high altitude studies undated

Box 66, Folder 23

"Exploring the Heights" - Houston biographical film undated

Box 66, Folder 24-25

Fifty Years of Going Higher undated

Box 66, Folder 26-28

Operation Everest II interviews undated

Box 66, Folder 29

Profile: Charles Houston undated

Box 66, Folder 30

Stowe final undated

Box 66, Folder 31

"Struggles of the Spirit" - Interview with Charles Houston undated

Box 66, Folder 32-34

"A Study of Hypoxia," Operation Everest II undated

Box 79

"Mt. Everest Research" - Videocassette tapes and magnetic reel film, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research 1985-1986

Box 80

"Mt. Everest Research" - Videocassette tapes and magnetic reel film, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research 1985-1986

Box 65, Folder 19

Super 8 film - Unlabeled

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