Henry Morshead
(1882-1931)
English surveyor, explorer and mountaineer
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Henry Treise Morshead DSO FRGS (23 November 1882 – 17 May 1931) was an English surveyor, explorer and mountaineer. He is remembered for several achievements – with Frederick Bailey he explored the Tsangpo Gorge and finally confirmed that the Yarlung Tsangpo flows into the Brahmaputra River after cascading through Himalaya; also he was a member of the 1921 and 1922 British Mount Everest expeditions and in 1922 he climbed to a height of over 25,000 feet (7,600 m). His death was due to murder and the circumstances remain mysterious.
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23 November 1882 Cornwall, UK
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17 May 1931 (aged 48) Maymyo, Burma
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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