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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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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0340556021
- ISBN 13 9780340556023
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
- EditorKeaney Marian
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ISBN 10: 0340556021
ISBN 13: 9780340556023
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Everest Reconnaissance: The First Expedition of 1921
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. The 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition set off to explore how it might be possible to get to the vicinity of Mount Everest, to reconnoitre possible routes for ascending the mountain, and ? if possible ? make the first ascent of the highest mountain in the world. At that time Nepal was closed to foreigners, so any approach had to be from the north, through Tibet. A feasible route was discovered from the east up the Kharta Glacier and then crossing the Lhakpa La pass north east of Everest. It was then necessary to descend to the East Rongbuk Glacier before climbing again to Everest's North Col. However, although the North Col was reached, it was not possible to climb further before the expedition had to withdraw.Initially the expedition explored from the north and discovered the main Rongbuk Glacier, only to find that it seemed to provide no likely routes to the summit. However, at the time it was not realised that the East Rongbuk glacier actually flowed into the Rongbuk glacier ? it was thought it descended away to the east.As a reconnaissance the expedition was a success because it determined that a good route might be to approach the East Rongbuk glacier via the Rongbuk glacier, and then follow the North Col route to the summit. Next year the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition took this route and was able to climb above the North Col, although it did not reach the summit.Charles Howard-Bury led the 1921 expedition and George Mallory, who had never before been to Himalaya, was included in the team. As events were to turn out, Mallory became the de facto lead climber. Howard-Bury wrote a book about the expedition, Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921, to which Mallory contributed six of the chapters. Seller Inventory # SKU2010028683
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Everest Reconnaissance: The First Expedition of 1921
Published by
Hodder & Stoughton (1991), London, 1991
ISBN 10: 0340556021
ISBN 13: 9780340556023
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. No signatures. No tears or chips to dust wrapper. Minor rubbing to edges of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 254 pages including 2 full page maps + plates. Blue papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. This work was originally published in 1922. This new 1991 edition has 17 pages of previously unpublished extracts from the diary of Charles Howard-Bury, which includes accounts of the expedition's moves "to obtain the approval of the Dalai Lama; [and] the part played by the Government of India and Sir Charles Bell, its British Agent at Gangtok" - page 7. There is also a new foreword by Lord Hunt of Llanfair Waterdine. "In 1920 Howard-Bury went to Tibet at the request of Sir Francis Younghusband in order to set in training the wooing of the Dalai Lama for permission for a British expedition to travel through his country to Everest." - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo. Seller Inventory # 5238
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