The 'Forgotten Adventure' was a delightful mountaineering expedition where Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman introduced their 'alpine style' of mountaineering and gave Sherpa Tensing, just 19 years old, his first chance.
The team, which included Edwin Kempson and Edmund Wigram, made first ascents of two dozen Himalayan peaks over 20,000 ft. in "an orgy of mountaineering" and the attractive mountain range of Nyonno Ri, east of Everest, was explored.

This new book tells the complete story of the fifth expedition to Mount Everest, led by Eric Shipton over 70 years ago and has since remained untold. It completes the history of the highest mountain in the world which continues to captivate the imagination of climbers - young and old.

With a foreword by Lord Hunt and an introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary this book is illustrated with 125 previously unpublished photographs within the text - many are full page and some are from the 'unlocked' archives of the Royal Geographical Society, whose mapmaker, Ted Hatch, has drawn 2 fine new maps which fold in the back of the book.
Several expedition sketch maps are reproduced and in particular, the North Face of Everest, by the expedition surveyor Michael Spender, is used to illustrate the unique double dust jacket.

Eric Shipton was the leader of the fifth Mount Everest expedition but, for some reason or other, did not write the expedition book.
It has remained unwritten for 70 years, but now, after 12 years of research, during which time the diaries of the other six members have been found and used to recount this delightful mountaineering adventure, the author has written and published what Nigel Winser, past Deputy Director of the Royal Geographical Society calls 'The final chapter of the Everest story' !

READ THE FOREWORD BY LORD HUNT
 

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