The Epic of Mount Everest

by Sir Francis Younghusband

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The Epic of Mount Everest, by Sir Francis Younghusband, first published 1926.

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Illustrations Maps and photographs, with thumb-nails
Chapter I The Idea
Chapter II Preparation
Chapter III The Start
Chapter IV Chumbi
Chapter V Tibet
Chapter VI The Approach to Everest
Chapter VII The Way Discovered
Chapter VIII The North Col
Chapter IX Preparing Again
Chapter X The Second Start
Chapter XI The Attack
Chapter XII The Oxygen Attempt
Chapter XIII An Avalanche
Chapter XIV High-Altitude Life
Chapter XV The Chief Result
Chapter XVI The Use of Oxygen
Chapter XVII Other Conclusions
Chapter XVIII The Third Expedition
Chapter XIX Darjiling to Rongbuk
Chapter XX Up the Glacier
Chapter XXI Disaster Retrieved
Chapter XXII The Rescue
Chapter XXIII The Assault
Chapter XXIV The Climax
Chapter XXV Mallory and Irvine
Chapter XXVI Odell
Chapter XXVII The Great Enigma
Chapter XXVIII Honour
Chapter XXIX The Doomed Mountain