In “World Beneath Their Feet”, ScottEAuthor profiles the single-minded climbers who scaled the Himalayas’ tallest peaks in the 1930s
IMaurice Wilson decided to pilot a single-propeller aeroplane from London to the Himalayas, crash land on a 14,000-foot glacier and ascend to the summit of Mount Everest by himself, he did not reckon on the forbidding challenge of British bureaucracy. After flying more than 5,000 miles , the amateur aviator and mountaineer was denied a permit to cross Nepali airspace and grounded in British India.
By the 1930s high-altitude mountaineering had become as much a source of national prestige as space exploration would be in the 1960s. “We ought not to treat the climbing of Mount Everest as a domestic issue,” argued a piece in theLondonin 1936. “It is an issue of National and Imperial importance.
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