THE EVEREST MAN
REMARKABLE LINK OF TIME.' On the same day as it was announced that Mr. Hugh Ruttledge had been invited to lead another expedition to Mount Everest news came of the death of the eldest son of the man after whom the famous peak . <■ • Mr. Lancelot Everest, who has just j. passed away at 82, was the son of Sir George Everest, who was bom when the French Revolution broke out, and ( went to India 129 years ago as a cadet in. the army of the East India Company, which governed the country before the Mutiny. Sir George became Surveyor- ; General of India, and.the map of < India owes much of his devoted labours 100 vears ago. In honour of his work tne ~ highest peak of the Himalayas was named after him.. , . , It is a remarkable link with history x that the son of a man bom during the French Revolution should haw lived till long after the Great .Wai. . ' < Xi
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1935, Page 21 (Supplement)
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