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Index
Dedication
Contents
Part I
1. To See the World
2. A Boy from Down Under
3. A New Hemisphere
4. Whymper’s Path
5. A Zest for Mountains
6. Everest Dreaming
7. King of His Domain
8. The Tyro Companion
Part II
9. An Alchemy of Air
10. The Upstart
11. A Jilted Hero
12. Pleasure and Pain
13. The Last Frontier
14. The Lost Boy
15. ‘You’ve Sent Me to Heaven’
16. ‘Dear Miss Johnston’
17. The Threshold of Endeavour
Part III
18. Prospects of Success
19. The Politics of Oxygen
20. ‘When George Finch Starts to Gas’
21. The Road to Kampa Dzong
22. Goddess Mother of the World
23. The Foot of Everest
24. The Right Spirit
25. A Bladder and a T-Tube
26. The Ceiling of the World
27. ‘My Utter Best. If Only . . .’
Part IV
28. The Unlikeliest of Heroes
29. The Bastardy of Arthur Hinks
30. A Dream is Dashed
31. The Tragedy of George Mallory
32. A New Legacy
33. The Beilby Layer
34. F Division and the J-Bomb
35. ‘Whose Son Am I?’
36. Conquered
37. Recognition at Last
Epilogue
Acknowledgements and Notes on Sources
Index
About the Author
Praise
Copyright
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