Bibliography and Acknowledgements

Main exhibition source: 

Julie Summers, Fearless on Everest: the quest for Sandy Irvine (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), republished by Oxford: Iffley Press  

 

Selected bibliography and other sources:  

Carr, Herbert R. C. The Irvine Diaries: Andrew Irvine and the Enigma of Everest, 1924. Reading: Gastons-West Col Publications, 1979 

Christopher M. Driscoll (2020) Sublime Sahib: white masculine identity formation in big mountain climbing, Culture and Religion, 21:1, 43-57 

Driver, Felix., and Lowri Jones. Hidden Histories of Exploration: Researching the RGS-IBG Collections. Egham: Royal Holloway, University of London, in association with the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, 2009 

Everest by ‘Those Who Were There’ 1921, 1922, 1924, Alpine Club exhibition catalogue (2021) 

Fleetwood, Lachlan. Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 

Susan Frohlick. The “Hypermasculine” Landscape of High-Altitude Mountaineering. Vol. 14. Ann Arbor, MI: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 1999. 

Gilchrist, Paul. “Gender and British Climbing Histories: Introduction.” Sport in history 33.3 (2013): 223–235 

Hall, Jenny, Emma Boocock, and Zoe Avner, eds. Gender, Politics and Change in Mountaineering: Moving Mountains. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2023 

Hansen, Peter H. The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013 

Holzel, Tom., and Audrey Salkeld. The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine. London: Cape, 1986 

Isserman, Maurice., Stewart Angas. Weaver, and Dee. Molenaar. Fallen Giants : A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes. New Haven, Conn. ; Yale University Press, 2008 

Norton, E.F, The fight for Everest: 1924, by Lieutenant-Colonel E.F. Norton, D.S.O., and other members of the expedition (New York (State): Longmans, Green & Co., 1925). 

Ortner, Sherry B. Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1999 

Parsons, Mike and Rose, Mary B. , Mallory Myths and Mysteries: The Mallory Cothing Replica Project. Penrith: Mountain Heritage Trust, 2006.

Rak, Julie. False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction. Montreal ; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. 

Salkeld, Audrey, and John Boyle, Climbing Mount Everest. The bibliography: the literature and history of climbing the world's highest mountain (Clevedon: Sixways, 1993). 

Westaway, Jonathan. “‘Men Who Can Last’: Mountaineering Endurance, the Lake District Fell Records and the Campaign for Everest, 1919-1924.” Sport in history 33.3 (2013): 303–332 

Link to Other Everests network and website, with recording of talks and keynotes

You can also listen to Jonathan Westaway speaking on History Extra - Mountaineering on Everest: Everything you wanted to know   

Alpine Club

Community Action Nepal

Royal Geographical Society

Mount Everest Foundation   

Mountain Heritage Trust   

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