– Photographs –
At Mirbat, in Oman, July 1973.
At Mirbat, in Oman, July 1973.
With Peter Boardman (right) in Hong Kong, 1981.
660 Squadron, Army Air Corps, Hong Kong, 1982. I am piloting ‘Bravo’ at the bottom of the stack.
L–R: Everest (8,848 metres), Lhotse (8,516 metres) and Nuptse (7,861 metres), taken from the shoulder of Pumori (7,161 metres).
Photo: Mal Duff.
Crossing one of the bridges in the Icefall.
Climbing a cliff in the Icefall, 1996.
The ever-lurking possibility of a collapse in the Icefall, 1996.
Ginge Fullen is carried into Base Camp, 20 April 1996.
(Left) Göran Kropp at Camp 2, May 1996. He was killed in 2002 while rock climbing in the US. (Right) Chantal Mauduit, on her way to climbing Lhotse in 1996. She was to die just two years later on Dhaulagiri (8,167 metres).
Makalu Gau waits at Base Camp while the helicopter makes a second flight up to Camp 1 to collect Beck Weathers.
The helicopter, piloted by Colonel Madan Chhetri, delivers Beck Weathers to Base Camp.
With our Base Camp Manager Mick Burns (left), and the ‘Icefall Doctors’ (centre), 1997.
Escorting the body of Nima Rinzi, 8 May 1997.
Mal Duff at Base Camp, April 1997.
Prayer flags flying over Everest Base Camp.
The magnificence of the Western Cwm, as seen from Camp 1.
The Western Cwm: Camp 2 is located on the left, under the South-West Face,
and Camp 3 is perched in the centre, in the crevasses on the steep face of Lhotse.
Sherpas appearing at Camp 3, 12 May 1999. Camp 2 can be seen far below in the middle of the left-hand side of the photo.
The view from the South Col up to the South Summit.
The Balcony is the prominent feature in the centre of the right-hand ridge.
The view from the South Summit looking up the knife-edge ridge to the Hillary Step.
On the summit of Everest, 13 May 1999. On my left, with the Greek flag, is Constantine Niarchos.
The highest protest in the world – attempting to save my local hospital, on the summit of Everest, 13 May 1999.
With Pertemba Sherpa and Sir Chris Bonington at a charity event in 2010.
Dining with Sir Edmund Hillary in Kathmandu in 2007.