In reply to oscaig:
> ...............Just the thought of him and Jimmy Cunningham walking into Everest............ So long Hamish
Here (below) is a link to the Creagh Dhu Himalayan expedition of 1953, great reading IMO. They had just found out that Hunt's team had just climbed Everest. Some excerpts:
"After only one night in the capital, we hired a Sherpa .... the first day we were carrying 190 lb. each. The Sherpa, Nima, followed behind with his small pack.... at Namche [we] dispensed with the Sherpa who, on leaving, offered to give us his knife, fork and mug..... we managed to purchase a sheep and a sack of potatoes and were all prepared for an assault on Pumori.... we pitched our small tent with 80 lb. of equipment on a rock promontory at an altitude of 20,500 ft.... with 60 lb. packs hanging from our headbands we once more ascended the powder-covered rock ridge to reach the tent... my sleeping bag, which was a thirty-shilling boy scout model, was even colder than I had expected.... there was an awful avalanche roar from the general direction of the slopes above, and John murmured, 'No wonder; it's like Aberdeen on a flag day'.... When we left Namche on the 16th of the month we had only eight rupees left as climbing expenses without spending our travel money. With this small sum we hoped to attempt a peak lying seven miles to the south of Namche.... With our eight rupees invested in supplies we set off; our tent, tattered beyond repair, was given to a Sherpa. From now on we should have to bivouac under stones....".
https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1955_files/AJ60%201955%2...