This year marks a century since the first British mountaineering team made a reconnaissance ascent of Everest, one of five key expeditions that took place between 1921 and 1953 with the aim of reaching the top of the world. Carrying a wide range of photographic equipment, including Kodak pocket cameras and panoramic cameras, these climbs brought back some of the most stunning mountain photography ever seen. The 1921 reconnaissance expedition not only greatly enlarged the first recorded images of Everest and the Tibetan people, but also paved the way for future ascents of our planet’s highest peak.
These groundbreaking images are now bound in a stunning new volume. Everest collects 268 images of frozen gorges, glaciers, ice fields and pinnacles, vividly illustrating the history of these and subsequent expeditions, commissioned exclusively for the Folio Society, including some treasured archival photos from the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). . Among the stunning scenery are close-ups of pioneering ascents by Mallory, Irvine, Hillary and Tenzing, including the tragic 1924 expedition that claimed the lives of Mallory and Irvine. Hillary and Tenzing’s official and triumphant 1953 climb is also documented, with captions and commentary by award-winning mountaineering writer Peter Gillman.
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While tenzing norgay’s photo of edmund hillary atop everest is considered one of the most famous journalistic photographs of the 20th century, other scenes, many of which have been brought to new life through digital scans taken from the archive rgs. Fragile silver nitrate negatives reanimate the realities of expeditions captured a century ago at altitudes of around 23,000 feet.
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Accompanying a photographic history, the second volume of this cloth-bound, two-part boxed edition, an eyewitness story brings together first-person accounts of those who made the ascents. Articles, dispatches, memoirs, official reports, and private letters are presented by anthropologist, photographer, and former National Geographic Explorer-in-residence Wade Davis, with a foreword by journalist and historian Jan Morris, the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition, who sent his writing to the folio society before his death in 2020.
everest: from reconnaissance to summit, 1921 to 1953 is compiled and edited by peter gillman, with a foreword by jan morris, introduced by wade davis and published by the folio society, MSRP £199.
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Published in the July/August 2021 issue of National Geographic Traveler (UK)
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