Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Leigh Mallory by George Leigh Mallory & Peter Gillman

Author:George Leigh Mallory & Peter Gillman [Mallory, George Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781908096463
Publisher: Perseus Faber
Published: 2012-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

15 July Started 6 a.m. to explore the glacier to West and North-west. A very interesting view just short of the Island; the South Peak appearing. Fifty minutes there for photos; then hurried on the hope of seeing more higher up and at a greater distance. It is really a dry glacier here but with snow frozen over the surface making many pitfalls. We had a good many wettings in cold water up to the knees. The clouds were just coming up as we halted on the medial moraine. I waited there in hope of better views, while Bullock took on the coolies. They put on snow-shoes for the first time and seemed to go very well in them. Ultimately I struggled across the glacier, bearing various burdens, to meet them as they came down on a parallel moraine. Snow-shoes seemed useful, but very awkward to leap in. Bullock went a long way up the glacier, rising very slightly towards the peak Cho-Uyo, 26,870 feet. Evidently there is a flat pass over into Nepal near this peak, but he did not quite reach it.

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