Lives & Memoirs
Assault on Mount Everest, 1922
Charles Granville Bruce, George Ingle Finch, Tom Longstaff, George Mallory, T. Howard Somervell, Francis Edward Younghusband
2026
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Seven porters died in an avalanche below the North Col, and the mountain kept the argument running for another thirty years. This was the first serious attempt on Everest: Finch proved bottled oxygen worked and was disliked for it, Mallory pushed higher than any man had stood, and the party came down knowing exactly what it would cost.
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25 chapters
- 1Introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband20m
- 2To the Base Camp by C. G. Bruce, Part 133m
- 3To the Base Camp by C. G. Bruce, Part 231m
- 4The Assault on the Mountain by C. G. Bruce, Part 123m
- 5The Assault on the Mountain by C. G. Bruce, Part 230m
- 6The Return by Kharta by C. G. Bruce, Part 126m
- 7The Return by Kharta by C. G. Bruce, Part 230m
- 8The Return by Kharta by C. G. Bruce, Part 325m
- 9The Problem by George Mallory, Part 125m
- 10The Problem by George Mallory, Part 229m
- 11The Highest Camp by George Mallory, Part 130m
- 12The Highest Camp by George Mallory, Part 225m
- 13The Highest Point by George Mallory, Part 121m
- 14The Highest Point by George Mallory, Part 225m
- 15The Highest Point by George Mallory, Part 327m
- 16The Second Attempt by George Finch, Part 123m
- 17The Second Attempt by George Finch, Part 223m
- 18Conclusions by George Finch20m
- 19Notes on Equipment by George Finch16m
- 20The Third Attempt by George Mallory20m
- 21Conclusions by George Mallory13m
- 22Acclimatisation at High Altitudes by T. Howard Somervell15m
- 23Colour in Tibet by T. Howard Somervell7m
- 24Tibetan Culture by T. Howard Somervell10m
- 25Natural History by Dr. T. G. Longstaff25m
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