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Fritz Hoffmann Wishes Bernice Madigan a Happy 115th Birthday

National Geographic Photo Blog

Bernice was born in the West Springfield, Massachusetts, on July 24, 1899. In 1918, she answered President Wilson’s call for women to come to the nation’s capital to assist with World War I efforts. Bernice’s father took her to New Haven, Connecticut and put her on the Federal Express, the train line that ran between Boston and Washington. Her description of the capital lit by gaslight drew a picture that illuminated an image in my mind. “They took me for a long ride that night I arrived in Washington. I saw Washington by night. Oh, the heavens opened up you know. I’d never seen anything like it,” Bernice told me. I was captivated by her story about how the Spanish flu gripped the city. “Girls were dying all around me. We all had it. We had it bad.” Bernice stayed in Washington for 90 years where she worked in the Treasury Department.

Fritz Hoffmann Wishes Bernice Madigan a Happy 115th Birthday

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A monk prays to the sound of music during the climbing Puja ceremony at the Pangboche Monastery. The ceremony is meant to bring safe passage and good fortune to the climbers going for the summit of Everest.

On April 18, 2014 an avalanche on Mount Everest swept through a line of Sherpas preparing a climbing route for commercial clients. 16 men were killed, making it the deadliest day in the mountain’s history. 10 photographers who have worked extensively with the Sherpa people are donating a selection photographs of the Everest region and its people, curated by National Geographic and Outside Magazine editors, to benefit the Sherpa community. 100% of the proceeds (after the cost of printing) will go to the community via the nonprofit Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation, http://alexlowe.org/, which has been working with Sherpa climbers in the Khumbu since 2003. Visit http://www.sherpasfund.org/ to see the prints and get more information. photo: Max Lowe