Lure of the Mountains: The Life of Bentley Beetham, 1924 Everest Expedition Mountaineer

ISBN-13: 9781906148942 / Angielski

Graham Ratcliffe

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This is a biography of accomplished photographer, ornithologist, teacher and 1924 Everest expedition member Bentley Beetham (1886-1963). Written by the late Michael D. Lowes, a pupil of Beetham's at Barnard Castle School in County Durham, and with a foreword by Graham Ratcliffe MBE, the first Briton to have summited Everest from both the North and South sides, and also a pupil of Barnard Castle School, this book charts Beetham's life from childhood in Darlington, to rock climbing in the Lake District and selection by the Mount Everest Committee as a member of the infamous and ill-fated 1924 Everest expedition on which George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared high on the mountain.