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Charles Howard-Bury led the first official reconnaisance expedition to Everest in 1921. This is the account of that journey with George Mallory and others to investigate approaches to the world's highest and until then largely inaccessible mountain.
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Everest reconnaissance : the first expedition of 1921
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ISBN 10: 0340556021
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