# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ward
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:09:32.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ward"
name: "Michael Ward"
slug: "michael-ward"
description: "Michael Phelps Ward, CBE was an English mountaineer and surgeon. Amongst his other accomplishments, he was the expedition doctor during the history-making first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 led by John Hunt, when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit. He argued the conquest of the mountain was as much a victory for science since the scientists finally figured out how to cope with the physiological effects of extreme high altitude such as oxygen lack, dehydration, and cold injury. His discoveries a few years earlier in the Royal Geographical Society archives of the Milne-Hinks map and unofficial RAF photos of the Everest area helped find a viable route the summit thus making the ascent possible."
tagline: "British surgeon and mountaineer (1925-2005)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-03-26"
deathDate: "2005-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.61
  momentum:             9.588195841716969
  historical:           5.477322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ward_(mountaineer)"
    title: "Michael Ward (mountaineer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_(%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%82_%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87_%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B8%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7)"
    title: "مايكل وارد (متسلق جبال من المملكه المتحده لبريطانيا العظمى و ايرلاندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ward_(Mediziner)"
    title: "Michael Ward (Mediziner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ward_(alpinista)"
    title: "Michael Ward (alpinista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ward_(alpiniste)"
    title: "Michael Ward (alpiniste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89_(%E7%99%BB%E5%B1%B1%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "マイケル・ウォード (登山家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1929721"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump