The Epic of Mount Everest

Francis Younghusband was the first chairman of the Mount Everest Committee of the Royal Geographical Society. This is his vivid account of the three separate expeditions to Mount Everest in 1921, 1922 and 1924 - the expedition in which Mallory and Irving lost their lives and which inspired one of the world's great mysteries.The cover copy for the original edition, first published in 1926 and now long out of print, says 'Sir Francis Younghusband has written the present volume on behalf of the Mount Everest Committee, basing it on the previous records, and having had the advantage of viewing the whole sequence of events in its true perspective, is able to do full justice to the wonderful feats performed, which the modesty of the climbers forbade in their own recorded narratives.'