The Chad Valley Games Mount Everest board game priced at £500 from Meridian Rare Books at the PBFA’s Travel and Exploration Fair.
In answer to the question “why do you want to climb Mount Everest?” mountaineer George Mallory, who died on it in 1924, famously replied “because it’s there”.
Maybe less well known is Edmund Hillary’s reputed remark to George Lowe, Everest ascent team member after he and Sherpa Tensing Norgay became the first people to reach the mountain’s summit in 1953: “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.”