Everest - The First Ascent: How A Champion Of Science Helped To Conquer The Mountain - Plot & Excerpts
when he arrived in England in October. His appointment as the new Everest leader was greeted with a storm of protests from the climbing world. So vociferous was the outcry that the Himalayan Committee met at the Alpine Club on September 24 to reconsider its decision and vote again. Tom Bourdillon, who had been promised a place on the Everest team by the now-ousted Shipton, appeared at the meeting and read aloud an indignant letter of resignation. Laurence Kirwan, who believed that Shipton was the best choice of leader, voted against Hunt. Hunt’s appointment was confirmed by six votes to two, but Basil Goodfellow sent a letter to Germany, forewarning Hunt of “the difficulty of your position.”1 The Cho Oyu climbers were “intensely loyal to Shipton,” he cautioned, and were having “profound doubts” as to whether they would “join an Everest party under any leader but Shipton.” He also warned of “nervousness that the expedition will become a military operation, not in the British mountaineering tradition.”Hunt reassured Goodfellow that he was “quite prepared”
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