Dr Jim Milledge
The Club will be saddened to learn that Dr Jim Milledge, a past Vice-President, and renowned for his research on the physiology of altitude, has died.
The funeral service will be held on 17 March - more details later.
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Becoming a MemberThe Club will be saddened to learn that Dr Jim Milledge, a past Vice-President, and renowned for his research on the physiology of altitude, has died.
The funeral service will be held on 17 March - more details later.
We have recently learned that Lutz Bormann, a member since 1994, sadly died on 21 December.
We have recently received from his son the sad news of the death last September of Piero Nava. He joined in 1973 and became an ACG member in 1986.
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We are saddened to learn of the death on 10 December of Kev Reynolds, renowned author of Cicerone guidebooks, and a member since 1979.
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