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Everest Kendal Mint Cake
For more than a century, family-owned confectionary company, George Romney Ltd. has been making the delicious snack that has become synonymous with many a mountaineering adventure. Based in the market town of Kendal in the Lake District, the company was responsible for creating Romney’s Kendal Mint Cake – the energy-packed bar made from sugar, glucose,...
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Original Everest Boots
Seventy years ago in 1953, Hillary and Tenzing became the first explorers to reach the top of Mount Everest. Exposure to low temperatures and high winds on the summit was – and still can be – extremely difficult to cope with and the team was wearing gear that, by today’s standards would be considered quite...
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Black and white image of Everest
The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953. Led by Colonel John Hunt, it was organised and financed by the Joint Himalayan Committee. Ang Norbu, Dawa Thondup, Da Namgyal, Tashi Phutar, Ang...
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Picture of two climbers from 1953, heads bowed
After the Cho Oyu expedition the Everest committee appointed as oxygen controller Peter Lloyd, who had used oxygen on Everest in 1938 (and as oxygen officer for the 1953 expedition, Tom Bourdillon). At the committee’s request, a group of experts was brought together by the M.R.C., under the chairmanship of Sir Brian Matthews, to consider...
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Queen Elizabeth Coronation
Queen Elizabeth II, the Coronation and Everest 1953 Queen Elizabeth II has sadly died and with her passing has gone a ‘constant’ from our lives. She was a global icon of tremendous standing and made many important connections with people from across Britain, the Commonwealth and beyond. However, it was the astounding serendipity of the...
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Please save the date for a very special event from 5:30pm to 7:30pm on 1 June 2023 at Aloft Hotel Kathmandu. Open to the public, we are planning a unique evening of film and discussions with the families of Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Lord Hunt as well as other celebrity Nepali mountaineers....
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Ed’s journey to the Summit of Mt Everest was a long one, but a fortunate decision along the way meant that he was positioned to be placed on the Everest Summit expedition. This story begins in 1951 when Ed embarked on the New Zealand Alpine Club Garhwal Himalaya expedition. It was a tough expedition where...
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1953 Climbers
Wilf Noyce was a member of the 1953 British team that made the first ascent of Everest. Widely respected for his climbing ability and with an impressive record of difficult and dangerous climbs in the Alps, he was said by Ed Hillary to be the most competent climber he, Hillary, had ever met. A Cambridge...
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John Hunt’s team had pushed a route to the South Col and at that point, John chose two climbing teams to make the summit attempt. They were Bourdillon and Evans, to use the new oxygen rebreathing system and climb from the south col. They would be followed by Tenzing and Hillary using the standard oxygen...
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