Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Marianne North, Albert Bierstadt and William John Huggins. The first serious attempt on Everest: the reconnaissance, the north col, the oxygen argument, Finch and Bruce at 27,300 feet, and the avalanche that killed seven porters. Charles Bruce led the expedition and this is the official account, with chapters by Mallory, Somervell and Longstaff. It is the record of the moment when the mountain stopped being theoretical. Fifty-nine plates of mountain, sea and moonlight, among them works by Turner and Caspar David Friedrich, run through the book like the weather the climbers met.