The view just displayed looks like the SW Face climbed by the Bonnington expedition in 1975, which put Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on top. It also looks like they are using a polarising filter given how deep blue the skies look.
Thanks for posting this. When the clouds clear it is an absolutely wonderful view!
Years ago, if you wanted to know what the weather was like there you had to
either walk or fly there or tune in to special shortwave broadcasts for expeditions
from the transmitters of All India Radio. Amazing now how you can click on the web!
The camera shows the south summit and you can see the southeast ridge route
on the right of the mountain.
Snapshot attached taken late 1985 outside the office of Tenzing Norgay at the
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, India.
He passed away a few months later in early 1986 and was cremated at the Institute.
The view just displayed looks like the SW Face climbed by the Bonnington expedition in 1975, which put Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on top
What a epic expedition that was, first to climb the south west face and finally after all the previous expeditions/attempts British born climbers achieved the summit. From memory after Scott and Haston summited at 6pm in the evening they descended down to the south summit and decided to make camp in a small snow cave and endure a night above 8000m.
The view just displayed looks like the SW Face climbed by the Bonnington expedition in 1975, which put Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on top
Quote:
What a epic expedition that was, first to climb the south west face and finally after all the previous expeditions/attempts British born climbers achieved the summit. From memory after Scott and Haston summited at 6pm in the evening they descended down to the south summit and decided to make camp in a small snow cave and endure a night above 8000m.
What epic expeditions organised by Bonnington, eh ? I think Mick Burke met his death on the 1975 expedition, when he was part of the second summit team.
What a history surrounding Everest !
I still can't get over how Lincoln Hall managed to escape death after his 2006 climb, where he was left for dead after suffering altitude sickness at 8600m, and spending the night in the open without oxygen !! Talk about lucky escapes !
From memory after Scott and Haston summited at 6pm in the evening they descended down to the south summit and decided to make camp in a small snow cave and endure a night above 8000m.
What's more at that point, without working headlamps, without sleeping bags, without
oxygen and without food.
It always strikes you when reading those Bonnington books how despite the fact
the team would arrive with tons of food and equipment and go through a massive logistical
exercise of ferrying supplies up to the camps, the final climbers making the push to
the top could still be short one or more vital pieces of kit.
I think 'the elements' always seemed to catch them short-handed in some way shape or form ?
Interestingly also, Doug Scott (who was out here just a couple of years ago), had to make a descent of 'The Ogre' in Pakistan (1977) with both legs broken at the ankle !! He's one tough dude .. so was Haston !
There is an astronomer on this site that has summited Everest. John Kazanas (AKA JohnK, planetary imager and recent DSO enthusiast) summited last year I think or it might be this year. Balls of steel I reckon. Not in my list of things to do.
There is an astronomer on this site that has summited Everest. John Kazanas (AKA JohnK, planetary imager and recent DSO enthusiast) summited last year I think or it might be this year. Balls of steel I reckon. Not in my list of things to do.
Have read John's book on his Everest summit, amazing achievement well deserved with the all the effort he put in to prepare
Quote:
What a history surrounding Everest !
To right, so interesting from the early British mapping surveys to their 1920's/1930's expeditions, the Swiss attempts in the 50's, the summit achieved in 53 to the big/small national expeditions of the 60'70'80 and then the commercial expeditions of today. Wonder how many people know there was an Australian involved in the 1922 British Everest attempt George Finch {father of actor Peter Finch} pioneered the use of supplemental oxygen and reached around 8300m and the 1984 Australian successful expedition via the previously unclimbed north face route.
thanks for the link. bookmarked....so one day when, hopefully, I make it to base camp, i will know what Sagar Matha ( i think that is the nepalese name for the mountain?) is going to look like when i get there
George Finch {father of actor Peter Finch} pioneered the use of supplemental oxygen and reached around 8300m and the 1984 Australian successful expedition via the previously unclimbed north face route.
