Dr Griffith Pugh and the Conquest of Everest - Harriet Tuckey's Book.
The Anniversary Lecture 1993 Seldom since Francis Drake brought the Golden Hind to anchor in Plymouth Sound has a British explorer offered to his sovereign such a tribute of glory as Colonel John Hunt and his men were able to lay at the feet of Queen Elizabeth for her coronation day . The Times 2 June 1953 One evening in May 1993 I fond myself struggling to push my father, in a borrowed wheelchair, into the crowded lecture hall of the Royal Geographic Society with my mother following close behind. Forcing through throngs of people, we moved him towards a row of seats near the front that has been reserved for the members of the 1953 expedition to Mount Everest. My father, Dr Griffith Pugh , had been the oldest member of the expedition. The lecture we were about to hear was a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the conquest of ...