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THIS is a very attractive book with its wealth of beautiful illustrations, and the interest is great, whether told by Col. Howard Bury himself, or in the introduction by Col. Sir Francis Younghusband, by the surveyors—Major Morshead, Major Wheeler, and Dr. Heron—by other members, Dr. Wollaston and Mr. L. Mallory. The latter's knowledge of the Alps makes his portion a valuable contribution. The description of the monasteries, the beautiful type of their architecture shown in photographs, will be new to many. Of the Lamas themselves and their orderly system of government we find the same from one end of Tibet to the other. This will interest and prove instructive; readers will find they are not ignorant savages, but a people highly advanced in arts and education, and in many respects far more practical, united, and sensible than we are. Of course it is not new; much can be seen in Ladak and in the fine monastery of Himis near Leh, but what is new is the degree to which the tameness of wild animals and birds has been brought by the Buddhists living under the shadow of Mount Everest, markedly by those leading a hermit life in the Rongbuk Valley.
Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921
By Lieut.Col. C. K. Howard Bury and other Members of the Mount Everest Expedition. Pp. xi + 356 + 33 plates + 3 maps. (London: E. Arnold and Co., 1922.) 25s. net.
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G.-A., H. Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921. Nature 110, 139–141 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110139a0
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