During my high school years I was a volunteer at the Museum. At the time the West Wing had not been yet built and the Hayden Planetarium was still using the marvelous Korkosv projector.
I met Mr. Washburn several times in the "back offices" when I was performing tasks for the volunteer office, and he was unfailingly polite and concerned that we, as volunteers, were treated well by the Museum staff. (we were)
Decades later I met hime once again, and introduced him to my wife, when he was giving a lecture and slide show about his expedition to do arial mapping of peaks in Nepal, and he gave perspective about his efforts by contrasting that expedition with the times he spent in Alaska.
He did not, of course, remember me after all those years, but he was just as polite and concerned that I had been treated well as a volunteer.
A man whose presence in our times far outstripped his slight physical stature.
Hello, my name is Heather Smith
I am doing a report on this extraordinary man. So far i have learned lots about him and i have found him to be an interesting man.
I express deep sorrow on the demise of Dr. Bradfor Washburn, founder Director of Boston Museum of Science. I pry the eternal peace of the departed soul.
Brad was a very good fiiend of Nepal and the Nepalese people. So Nepal has lost a true friend. He had prepared the best quaality precise digital map of Mt. Everest-Sagarmatha-Quomolongma. He is remembered that he had determined the new height of Mt. Everest as 8,850 and it was announced by the National Geographic Society in 1999.
May the lord provide courage to Mrs. Barbara Washburn and family to bear the loss of Brad Washburn.
Buddhi N Shrestha
Former Director General, Survey of Nepal and
Managing Director,
Bhumichitra Mapping Co.
Kathmandu, Nepal
A very sad day for this planet Earth. Bradford Washburn had been a real inspiration to mountaineers, explorers & photographers alike over many decades.
It was a great pleasure to work with Brad on the 1995 American Everest Expedition in an effort to help solve the mystery of whether Mallory or Irvine were the first to summit the world's highest peak. He now knows the truth, while the rest of us try to solve the mystery. To The Top & Back.