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Alan Jones
After Everest: The Experiences of a Mountaineer and Medical Missionary
by T. Howard Somervell
Price:
$4.25 USD.
Words: 100,060.
Language:
English.
Published: January 14, 2013
by
Alan Jones.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers
The memoir of the remarkable T. Howard Somervell, best known for his role in the British expeditions to climb Mount Everest in the 1920s, including the legendary second attempt during which George Mallory and Sandy Irvine vanished on their way to the peak. Somervell also recounts his early climbing days in Europe, the horrors of the front during WWI, and his medical work among the poor of India.