Noel Odell, 33, oxygen officer for the third British Mount Everest Expedition, has just reached this ridge. His job is to prepare camp for two of his fellow mountaineers, George Mallory, 37, and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, 23, who are making the team’s third attempt to be the first to scale the peak, now just hundreds of meters away.
The third British Mount Everest Expedition
Noel can see clearly the summit of the ridge way up ahead, and a tiny figure moving toward the Step. Probably George, the more experienced Everest climber. Another figure, Sandy, follows him as George reaches the Second Step.
Then a cloud comes over and obscures Noel’s view. When the cloud passes by, they’re gone.
“Such Friends”: 100 Years Ago… is the basis for the paperback series, “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s. Volumes I through V, covering 1920 through 1924 are available at Thoor Ballylee in Co. Galway, and as signed copies at Pan Yan Bookstore in Tiffin, OH, City Books on the North Side and Riverstone Books in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA. They are also on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in print and e-book formats. For more information, email me at kaydee@gypsyteacher.com.
Later this month I will be talking about the literary 1920s in Paris and New York at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
If you want to walk with me through Bloomsbury, you can download my audio walking tour, “Such Friends”: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
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