LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Second Climbing Party descending from their Record Climb[Frontispiece]
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Frozen Waterfall, Chumbi Valley[28]
Nuns at Tatsang[34]
Rongbuk Monastery and Mount Everest[44]
The Expedition at Base Camp[46]
View at Base Camp[50]
Camp II at Sunset[54]
Mount Everest from Camp III[60]
Watching the Dancers, Rongbuk Monastery[72]
The Chief Lama, Rongbuk Monastery[78]
Tibetan Dancing Woman[84]
Tibetan Dancing Man[84]
Old Tibetan Woman and Child[90]
Fording the Bhong Chu[98]
Panorama at Shekar Dzong[106]
In Khamba Dzong[110]
Lingga and the Lhonak Mountains[114]
Base Camp and Mount Everest in Evening Light[124]
Serac, East Rongbuk Glacier[140]
View from Ice Cavern[146]
Seracs, East Rongbuk Glacier, above Camp II[150]
Party ascending the Chang La[156]
Peak, 23,180 feet (Kellas’ dark rock peak), from the Rongbuk Glacier, above Camp II[162]
Mallory and Norton approaching their Highest Point, 26,985 feet[204]
Summit of Mount Everest from the Highest Point of the First Climb, 26,985 feet, May 21, 1922[210]
The First Climbing Party[218]
Frost-bitten Climber being helped down to Camp II[222]
Mount Everest from Base Camp[232]
East Rongbuk Glacier, near Camp II[236]
Oxygen Apparatus[242]
Captain Noel kinematographing the Ascent of Mount Everest from the Chang La[242]
The British Members of the Second Climbing Party[248]
Chang La and North-east Shoulder of Mount Everest[290]
Religious Banners in Shekar Monastery[314]
Romoo, the Lepcha Collector who assisted Dr. Longstaff and Major Norton[322]
Karma Paul, the Expedition’s Interpreter[322]