Template:Did you know nominations/Peter Hackett (mountaineer)
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 15:53, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
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Peter Hackett (mountaineer)
- ... that American doctor and mountaineer Peter Hackett, director of the Institute for Altitude Medicine in Colorado, was the third person known to have made a solo ascent of Mount Everest? Source: West, John B. (1985). Everest: The Testing Place, p. 143
Created by Drmies (talk). Self-nominated at 22:31, 29 December 2021 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, and properly sourced. QPQ done. Earwig found only job titles and a long properly marked quote as copied, not problematic. The hook is also properly sourced (with an offline source taken AGF), and the part about being third to solo Everest is interesting enough, but I think it stuffs in too much boring detail off-topic from the main hook (the part about being director of an institute) to meet DYK rule 3a of being interesting. Can we maybe tighten it up? Or is there some reason it must stay in the hook? —David Eppstein (talk) 01:24, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
- David Eppstein, my point was that he's not just a mountain climber, but also a doctor in a field directly related to mountaineering. But I apologize for being boring and will propose another one. Drmies (talk) 01:42, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
- ALT 1...that in October 1981, American doctor and mountaineer Peter Hackett was the third person known to complete a solo ascent of Mount Everest?
Good to go AGF for ALT1. If someone wants to tweak the wording to make it clearer that the date is of the ascent and not of when it became known, or remove the date altogether, it's ok with me and doesn't need a repeat review. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:11, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
