“Richard Hingston came late to the British Everest adventure of 1921-24, but he was without doubt one of
the most compelling of all the characters in that epic mountaineering saga. A seasoned explorer, he was
a brilliant naturalist, a highly decorated soldier, and a gifted surgeon whose service in the Indian Army
included four years of fighting from East Africa to the Northwest Frontier to the deserts of Mesopotamia.
Throughout the Great War and later during the fateful Everest expedition of 1924 that resulted in the
deaths of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, Hingston kept a journal, an invaluable document published
here for the first time. This alone who warrant publication of this marvellous book, but Jim Murphy has
given us something even more valuable, an unforgettable portrait of a most remarkable man the likes of
which the world will never again know.†Wade Davis