Wayfarers' Club Dinner

28th February 1924

Image courtesy of The Alpine Club Collections

A dinner in honour of the four “North Country’ members of the expedition was given by the Wayfarers' Club on Friday 28 February at the Exchange Club in Fenwick Street. Willie Irvine and the Revd. Herbert Leigh Mallory were invited as guests of honour. Arthur Wakefield, a veteran of the 1922 expedition was also present, as were several members of the Alpine Club.

Fifty years later, R. G. Plint, another guest, found his copy of the menu, which had on the front a sketch of Everest. He collected the autographs of the team members and his menu shows Beetham and Hazard’s signatures at the base of the mountain but Mallory and Sandy had signed their names across the summit.