Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once. So lie back,

adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath and off we go.

This evening we're going to relax with a bit of epic exploration.

We're reading Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921, by Lieutenant Colonel C.K. Howardbury

D.S.O. and other members of the Mount Everest Expedition with illustrations and maps.

Published by Longman's Green and Co. 55. Fifth Avenue, New York, and in London by Edward Arnold and Co.

1922.

Let's begin.

Preface The Mount Everest Committee of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club

desire to express their thanks to Colonel Howard Burry, Mr. Walliston, Mr. Mallory, Major Mooreshead, Major Wheeler,

and Dr. Heron, for the trouble they have taken to write so soon after their return an account of their several parts in the joint work of the expedition.

They have thereby enabled the present expedition to start with full knowledge of the results of the

reconnaissance and the public to follow the progress of the attempt to reach the summit with full

information at hand.

The committee also wished to take this opportunity of thanking the Imperial Dry Plate

Company for having generously presented photographic plates to the expedition and so contributed to the production

of the excellent photographs that have been brought back.

They also desire to thank the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for their

liberality in allowing the members to travel at reduced fares and the

government of India for allowing the stores and equipment of the expedition to enter

India free of duty. J. E.C. Eaton and A.R Hinks, Honorable Secretaries.

Introduction by Sir Francis Young Husband KCSI, K CIEE. The idea of climbing Mount Everest has been vaguely in

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