English newspapers are reporting today, October 18, that Michael Ward has died at the age of 80. Ward was the expedition doctor on Sir Edmund Hillary’s expedition to explore routes up Mt. Everest. Ward, more importantly, to cryptozoology, was the doctor who was along with Eric Shipton when the now well-known Yeti or Abominable Snowman tracks were taken in 1951.

“Michael Phelps Ward was born on March 26 1925 in London, and educated at Marlborough….Michael Ward, who died on October 7, married Felicity Jane Ewbank in 1957. She survives him with a son,” reported the London Telegraph, in today’s editions.