The memorial cairn is built

13th June 1924

“The Cairn” is built by Beetham and Somervell on 13 June near Base Camp, to remember the losses on the three British expeditions. The whole cairn stood ten feet high and the inscription read: ‘In memory of three Everest Expeditions. 1921 Kellas, 1922 Lhakpa, Narbu, Pasang, Pemba, Sange, Temba, Antarge, 1924 Mallory, Irvine, Shamsher, Manbahadur'. It is no longer standing.

Photo J. B. Noel, courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)