English: Identifier: mounteverestreco01howa

Title: Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921 Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Howard-Bury, Charles, 1881- Leigh-Mallory, George Herbert, 1886-1924 Subjects: Mount Everest Expedition, 1921 Publisher: New York Longmans, Green and co. London, E. Arnold & co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: upon as being extremelyholy and as the re-incarnation of a former abbot, and theytherefore practically worshipped him. There was only onetooth left in his mouth, but for all that he had a very pleasantsmile. All around his room were silver-gilt Chortens inlaidwith turquoises and precious stones and incense was beingburnt everjrvrhere. After much persuasion the other monksinduced him to come outside and have his photographtaken, telling him that he was an old man, and that histime on earth was now short, and they would like to havea picture of him to remember him by. He was accordinglybrought out, dressed up in robes of beautiful golden brocades,with priceless silk Chinese hangings arranged beliuid himwhile he sat on a raised dais with his dorje and his beU infront of him, placed upon a finely carved Chinese table. Thefame of this photograph spread throughout the countryand in places hundreds of miles away I was asked for photo-graphs of the Old Abbot of Shekar Cho-te, nor could I give

Text Appearing After Image: The Abbot of Shekak Chote. FROM KHAMBA DZONG TO TINGRI 69 a more welcome present at any house than a photographof the Old Abbot. Being looked upon as a saint, he wasworshipped, and they would put these little photographsin shrines and burn incense in front of them. About midnight that night I was suddenly awakenedby yells and loud shouting and hammering close to mytent and next to that in which Bullock and Mallory weresleeping. The latter turned out and found that a Tibetanhad seized an ice axe and a mallet and was busy hammeringon our store boxes. He gave chase, but failed to catchthe intruder. Some of our cooKes, however, found outwhere he had gone to, and Chheten Wangdi had him handedover to the Jongpen. On investigation in the morning theman proved to be a madman whom his parents always keptlocked up during nights when the moon was full, but he hadmanaged to escape, so we handed him back to his family. Our transport was very slow in arriving, and there wereso many delays that it w

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