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A little while ago I explained how I was working through the second draft of the book I’m writing about my journey from hill walker to Everest summiteer, and editing the eye-watering 180,000 words I’d written for the first draft down to a more manageable 120,000. I explained how much of the historical background I originally wrote about the peaks I climbed and places I travelled to along the way, I was in the process of chopping out of the book because, while interesting, they weren’t essential to the flow of the story. Instead they would make good topics for blog posts, since I’m frequently writing about mountaineering history here, and many of you will be interested. Here’s the second post in that series, which follows on from the first one about how Nepal came to open its doors to tourism.
And remember, if you like what you read here, the content I decide to leave in the book will be even better.
Nepal’s first genuine trekking tourist was the great mountain explorer Bill Tilman. Born near Liverpool in 1898, Tilman’s introduction to high mountains came relatively late in life, but he certainly made up for lost time. He was in his early 30s and working as a plantation owner in Kenya, on land he had acquired in an unusual f
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IN MEMORIAM
- NOEL EWAHT ODELL
- DR SALIM ALI
- ANDERS BOUNDER
- ERWIN SCHNEIDER
- HERBERT TICHY
- ANG NIMA SHERPA
NOEL EWAHT ODELL
(1890-1987)
WITH THE DEATH OF Noel Odell the Alpine Club has lost its most senior member. He joined the Club in 1916, was elected Vice-President in 1945 and honorary member in 1973. He was also a founder member of the Himalayan Club and honorary member of a number of other mountaineering clubs including the Himalayan Club, the American Alpine Club, the Canadian Alpine Club, the New Zealand Alpine Club and the Norsk Tinder Klub to which he was particularly attached. His wife Mona was also a member of long standing having joined LAC 1921 and remained a member till her death in 1977.
Odell qualified for the Club in the golden years of alpine climbing before the first world war and was a near contemporary of such great figures as Geoffrey Young, George Finch and Alfred Zurcher. His proposal form was seconded by Haskett-Smith. But we remember him most of all as our last survivor of the dramatic 1924 Everest expedition in which he played such a memorable part, spending many days above the North Col, going twice up to Camp 6 in support of Mallory and Irvine's attempt on the summit and being the last man to see them alive, His
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HF Fynn, junior.
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Donor: J City, Pietermaritzburg, 1985; 0,04lin m.
Henry Francis Fynn, sink, (1846 - 1915) became the Brits Resident make sure of Cetshwayo story January 1883.
-- Datebook of Physicist Francis Fynn, junior, relating to anecdote in Zululand.
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Donor: J General, Pietermaritzburg, 1985; 0,07lin m. (Placed strip off A1273).
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