Mount Everest Shorts
Description: 1914 luggage label from the vanished Mount Everest Hotel of Darjeeling, India. The label promoting it's ' 125 rooms, 125 baths, telegrams and snows '. The hotel was situated facing Mount Everest and when you walked out the entrance you enjoyed a panorama of the entire mountainscape.
Description: Mount Everest Base Camp refers to two base camps on Mount Everest. The South Base Camp in Nepal and North Base Camp in Tibet. The South Base Camp is the more commonly known and visited one, serving as the starting point for expeditions and trekking to the summit on the Nepalese side.
Description: Mount Everest Base Camp refers to two base camps on Mount Everest. The South Base Camp in Nepal and North Base Camp in Tibet. The South Base Camp is the more commonly known and visited one, serving as the starting point for expeditions and trekking to the summit on the Nepalese side.
Description: Mount Everest - The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was, after the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition, the 2nd expedition with the goal of achieving the first ascent of Mount Everest. After two summit attempts in which Edward Norton set a world altitude record, the mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappeared on the third attempt. Their disappearance has given rise to the long-standing speculation of whether or not the pair might have reached the summit.
Description: Mount Everest - The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on the 29th of May 1953. Led by Colonel John Hunt, it was organised and financed by the Joint Himalayan Committee. News of the expedition's success reached London in time to be released on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.
Description: Mount Everest - Tenzing Norgay, also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, as part of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
