above left Expedition members
on their way back to Camp IV aft
er the triumph of 29 May: (L–R)
Charles Evans, Edmund Hillary,
Tenzing Norgay, Tom Bourdillon
and George Band.
above On their climb to
Camp IV on the North Col,
the men of the 1924
expedition are dwarfed by
the ice wall towering 1,000
feet (305 metres) above
them.
right Laden with extra
equipment to est ablish their
fi nal camp, Edmund Hillary
and Tenzing Norgay
approach its site at almost
28,000 feet (8,534 metres).
The photograph was taken by
George Lowe, a member of
their support team. From this
point onwards, the pair would
be on their own
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above right Tenzing Norgayst
ands on the summit of Mount
Everest , at the top of the world,
holding aloft his ice axe, to
which areatt ached the fl ags of
the United Nations, the United
Kingdom, Nepal and India.
right Charles Evans cuts
George Lowe’s hair at the
expedition’s Base Camp.
Being away from civilisation
for so long meant that they
had no option but to take
care of such needs
themselves.
SEE THE EVEREST 1953 EXHIBITION
Publication of Everest will coincide with a major, limited edition
sale exhibition about the 1953 Mount Everest expedition by the
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), to be held at gallery@oxo,
Tower Wharf, London from 23 May to 9 June. Called Everest 1953,
the exhibition is sp onsored by Ammonite. It will be the fi rst time
that many of the images have been publicly disp layed and made
available for purchase, and Everest 1953 will give a real sense
of the scale of what the men achieved on that momentous day
in 1953. Opening times are 11am-6pm and entry is free.
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