{"id":1341,"date":"2014-02-03T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/george-ingle-finch-1888-1970-was-a-chemist\/"},"modified":"2018-12-16T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T00:01:55","slug":"george-ingle-finch-1888-1970-was-a-chemist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/george-ingle-finch-1888-1970-was-a-chemist\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1341 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/george-ingle-finch-1888-1970-was-a-chemist\/attachment\/1342\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n0adwyokRK1qzxll0o1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Finch_(chemist)\" target=\"_blank\">George Ingle Finch<\/a>, (1888 &#8211; 1970) was a chemist and mountaineer and known for creating the first down jacket for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1922_British_Mount_Everest_expedition\" target=\"_blank\">1922 Mount Everest Expedition<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Is this your famous balloon jacket?&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Finch glowered at me. \u00c2\u00a0It was obvious that he&rsquo;d endured too much teasing about that particular article of clothing. \u00c2\u00a0&quot;It&rsquo;s the goose-down-filled outer jacket I devised for Everest,&ldquo; he snapped. \u00c2\u00a0&quot;Yes, it&rsquo;s balloon fabric &#8211; the only material I could find that wouldn&rsquo;t tear or rip and which could be easily sewn for the compartments of eiderdown. \u00c2\u00a0It kept me warm at almost twenty-four thousand feet below the the North East Ridge.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From &ldquo;The Abominable: A Novel&rdquo; by Dan Simmons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Ingle Finch, (1888 &#8211; 1970) was a chemist and mountaineer and known for creating the first down jacket for a 1922 Mount Everest Expedition. \u00c2\u00a0 &ldquo;Is this your famous balloon jacket?&rdquo; Finch glowered at me. \u00c2\u00a0It was obvious that he&rsquo;d endured too much teasing about that particular article of clothing. \u00c2\u00a0&quot;It&rsquo;s the goose-down-filled outer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[434,912,484,911],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alpinism","tag-down-jacket","tag-history","tag-mount-everest","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}