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- 29 September 1921 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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Letter to Ruth Mallory, written on ‘Mount Everest Expedition’ Letterhead
Writes in the midst of packing and arrangements. He was disappointed that the end was so much tamer than he had hoped.
He carried the whole party on his shoulders to the end and they were turned back by a wind in which no man could live for an hour. He had plenty of reserve and could have carried on another 2,000 ft with ease had the conditions been favourable. They had established the way to the summit for anyone who cared to try the highest adventure and he didn't much regret having failed to beat the record as they could have done easily enough had fortune favoured them.
He and Bullock planned to tavel together to Lachen, in Sikkim, where Bullock hoped to meet his wife. He would then travel on to Darjeeling alone and expected to be there about the 20th.