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Ranking in 7summits list, either CP or K | : | 8 |
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Ranking in Carstensz Pyramid list | : | 4 |
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Ranking in Kosciuszko list | : | 8 |
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First name | : | Geoffrey C. (Geoff) |
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Family name | : | Tabin |
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Gender | : | male |
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Country of origin | : | USA |
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Date of Birth | : | 1956-07-03 |
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Name of first summit | : | Carstensz |
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Date of climbing the first summit | : | 1980-08-03 |
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Name of final summit in Carstensz list | : | Elbrus |
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Date of final summit in Carstensz list | : | 1990-06-22 |
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Name of final summit in Kosciuszko list | : | Elbrus |
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Date of final summit in Kosciuszko list | : | 1990-06-22 |
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Date of climbing Kilimanjaro | : | 1990-02-17 |
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Date of climbing Elbrus | : | 1990-06-22 |
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Date of climbing Aconcagua | : | 1990-01-07 |
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Date of climbing Denali | : | 1989-06-04 |
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Date of climbing Vinson | : | 1989-12-14 |
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Date of climbing Everest | : | 1988-10-02 |
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Date of climbing Carstensz Pyramid | : | 1980-08-03 |
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Date of climbing Kosciuszko | : | 1988-12-00 |
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Climbed Carstensz Pyramid? | : | Yes |
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Climbed Kosciuszko? | : | Yes |
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Total time including Carstensz Pyramid | : | 09y,323d |
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Total time including Kosciuszko | : | 09y,323d |
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Age when finished with CP | : | 33y,354d |
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Age when finished with K | : | 33y,354d |
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Website | : | http://www.cureblindness.org |
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Additional Info | : | Intro:
One of our alltime favorite books about the 7summits and mountaineering is Dr Tabin's book: Blind Corners:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0934802033/the7summitscom
Crazy stories, great adventures and inspriration.
But there is more to Geoffrey C. Tabin, M.D. than just being an adventure junkie, as can be read on his own website www.cureblindness.org:
"Dr. Geoffrey Tabin is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Vermont Medical School and is co-director of the Himalayan Cataract Project. Along with Dr. Ruit, Dr. Tabin is one of the primary eye surgeons conducting cataract camps and training. He is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.
Background
Dr. Tabin's background started in climbing. Over the years, he has spent considerable time pursuing difficult rock and ice routes. One of his accomplishments was to be the fourth person to complete the Seven Summits, the highest point on each continent. During an expedition to the East Face of Everest in 1981, he was moved by the numerous blind people he encountered. After he graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1985, he completed an internship in general surgery. He also worked as a physician in Africa and Nepal. He was struck by the fact that ophthalmology was the one field from Western medicine that could have enormous impact in the developing world. Most of the problems he encountered fell into the realm of public health, with nutrition and clean water supplies being the largest problems. But nearly all of the blindness could be prevented or treated.
Dr. Tabin returned to America as an opthalmology residency at Brown University with a focus on becoming involved in international ophthalmology. After his residency, he continued onto a fellowship in corneal diseases and surgery with Professor Hugh Taylor, one of Fred Hollow's protoges. His major reason for choosing the fellowship in Australia was Professor Taylor's reputation in international ophthalmology and the opportunity to work with the Fred Hollows Foundation in Nepal. During his fellowship year, he spent one month working with Dr. Ruit at cataract camps in the mountains. After his fellowship, Dr. Tabin returned to Nepal to help run the Golchha Eye hospital in southern Nepal and teach cataract surgery. Drs. Ruit and Tabin then developed a teaching program for extracapsular cataract surgery with lens implantation and formed the Himalayan Cataract Project"
In his own words:
"One Passion Leads to Another…
My interest in international medicine grew out of my passion for climbing. I was a dedicated rock and ice climber in college during the 1970s, with a focus on big-wall rock climbs. After graduating, I took my passion to mountain walls in Asia and Africa. I entered Harvard Medical School in 1980 but had no definite plans for my medical career. China was just opening its doors to outsiders, for the first time since the Communist Revolution, and granted a permit for the first American climbers to visit Tibet. I was asked to join a team, funded by National Geographic, climbing the unexplored East Face of Mt. Everest. I dropped out of medical school, against the advice of virtually every non-climber I knew, and went to Tibet. Six of my teammates made the summit of Mt. Everest after the first ascent of the Kangshung Face, via a route that is still considered the most difficult on the peak. I had a great trip despite not making the top. I spent the rest of the year climbing and exploring and then reapplied to medical school. I graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1985 and started a residency in Orthopedic Surgery. During my third year, I was invited to join a team funded to get the first American woman to the top of Everest. Everyone I knew, including most of my climbing friends, said, "You can't quit your residency!" Everyone thought I'd be ruining my career, if not my life. But I quit and went to Nepal where I became the token boy who reached the summit along with the first two American women. I then worked as a general doctor in Nepal and saw so much preventable or treatable blindness that I was inspired to seek a residency in ophthalmology. I had found my passion in medicine."
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