The teams drew on work from Roger Payne, the pioneering marine biologist who passed away last June. Paynes most influential work involved the songs of humpback whales. He has really inspired us to want to use our most advanced technologies to want to have a deeper understanding of the whales, say
Date: May 07, 2024
Category: World
Source: Google
Mont Blanc avalanche victims remembered at Chamonix service
Three of the victims were British. Roger Payne, aged 55, was one of the the country's most experienced climbers and a former general secretary of the British Mountaineering Council. Steve Barber, 47, and John Taylor, 48, lived on the same street in Upper Poppleton, a village near York.
The three Britons, Steve Barber, John Taylor and Roger Payne, died as they traversed Mont Maudit, in the Mont Blanc range near Chamonix in the early hours of Thursday morning. French authorities believe wind triggered the avalanche, which also killed three Germans, two Spaniards and a Swiss climber.
Date: Jul 14, 2012
Category: World
Source: Google
Two die on Mont Blanc, as avalanche victims are remembered
limbers the massif had claimed last week. Three were British. Roger Payne, 55, was one of the country's most experienced climbers, a former general secretary of the British Mountaineering Council. Steve Barber, 47, and John Taylor, 48, lived on the same street in Upper Poppleton, a village near York.
Steve Barber and John Taylor, both from York, died on Thursday above the French town of Chamonix, along with a third Briton, Roger Payne, who had already been named. Payne was an experienced mountain guide and former general secretary of the British Mountaineering Council.
Date: Jul 13, 2012
Source: Google
Mont Blanc avalanche was like being tumbled in washing machine, say survivor
The dead Britons have been named as John Taylor and Steve Barber, both from York, who were raising sponsorship money for a local hospice, and their guide Roger Payne, a former member of the Mountaineering Council who counted the mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington among his friends.
Date: Jul 13, 2012
Source: Google
Roger Payne: the British Mountaineer killed in Mont Maudit avalanche
Part of the home page reads: ''The structure and content of the training programme has been developed by Roger Payne with contributions from a small group of international mountain guides who are experienced avalanche instructors working in the European Alps.''
Date: Jul 13, 2012
Source: Google
Mont Blanc avalanche was unavoidable, say French authorities
riday as Steve Barber, 47, and John Taylor, 48. They lived in the same street in Upper Poppleton, a village north-west of York. The third dead British man had been named on Thursday night as Roger Payne, an experienced mountain guide and former general secretary of the British Mountaineering Council.
Leysin, SwitzerlandConsultant and International Mountain Guide at www... Past: Sports and Development Director at UIAA, General Secretary at British Mountaineering...