Assault on Mount Everest, 1922
Author: first_name: Charles Granville
last_name: Bruce
first_name: George Ingle
last_name: Finch
first_name: Tom
last_name: Longstaff
first_name: George
last_name: Mallory
first_name: T. Howard
last_name: Somervell
first_name: Francis Edward
last_name: Younghusband
Language: English
Year: 1923

Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit.  The northern approach to the mountain was discovered by George Mallory and Guy Bullock on the initial 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition. It was an exploratory expedition not equipped for a serious attempt to climb the mountain. With Mallory leading (and thus becoming the first European to set foot on Everest's flanks) they climbed the North Col to an altitude of 7,005 metres (22,982 ft). F