![]() ![]() ![]() On their way to Kangchenjunga, the Brits visit Charles Tennant, the last survivor. Then he grew rich and famous on his account of that expedition and the fame and adulation it brought to him. ![]() Lyell led an ill-fated, high-casualty expedition up Kangchenjunga in 1906. When it comes to Kangchenjunga, that hero was Edmund Lyell. 'Kits' just wants to emulate the heroes he spent his boyhood reading about. The Pearces are semi-estranged upper-class brothers, older 'Kits' the adventurer and Stephen the doctor the expedition now requires, its previous doctor having fallen ill. To Kangchenjunga come Stephen and 'Kits' Pearce and several others. All a group of British mountain-climbers need to reach the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas, is fortitude and a small army of Sherpas and other native supply-carriers. Only a handful of mountains remain upon which to plant the Union Jack. Upper-class British twits throng the unconquerable places of the globe seeking to conquer them. Thin Air (2016) by Michelle Paver: It's 1935. ![]()
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