Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight let's kick off a series of relaxing travel logs that will take us all around the world.

First up, a return to a book we haven't read from in some time.

Mount Everest, the reconnaissance of 1921,

by Lieutenant Colonel CK Howard Burry D.S.

And other members of the Mount Everest Expedition, with illustrations and maps, first

published in 1922 by Longman's Green and Co, New York, and Edward Arnold and Co. London.

Let's pick up where we left off.

The narrative of the expedition by Lieutenant Colonel C.K. Howard Burry D.S.O. Chapter 1 From Dargilling through Sykim

Early in May, most of the members of the expedition had assembled at Darjeeling.

Mr Rayburn had been the first to arrive there, in order to collect as many men of the right type as he could.

I had come out a few weeks earlier in order to visit the Indian authorities at Simla,

and to make sure that there were no political difficulties in the way.

There I found everyone very kind and helpful, and all were anxious to do their best to assist the expedition.

Owing to the heavy deficit in the Indian budget, the expenses of every department had been rigorously cut down, and the government

of India were unable to give us financial assistance.

They agreed, however, to take upon themselves the whole of the expenses of the survey

and to lend the expedition the services of an officer of the Geological Department.

The Viceroy, Lord Redding, who, together with Lady Redding, took the greatest interest in the expedition, kindly gave us a subscription of 750 rupees.

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