The first flight over Mount Everest was undertaken in April 1933 by two Westland aircraft. They were piloted by Lord Clydesdale and David McIntyre, with Stewart Blacker and Sidney Bonnett in the obser
The Westland PV-3 that flew over Everest, pictured in 1931 prior to being modified for the expedition.
Aerial view of Mount Everest from the south, taken in 2006.
Stewart Blacker in 1933, wearing flying gear and a monocle.
Affair of the Dancing Lamas
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The Affair of the Dancing Lamas was an Anglo–Tibetan diplomatic controversy stemming mainly from the visit to Britain in 1924–25 of a party of Tibetan monks as part of a publicity stunt for The Epic o
Houston–Mount Everest flight expedition
…time was keeping the crews alive in the low pressure and cold air. No progress on the idea was made during the 1920s, partly because the diplomatic Affair of the Dancing Lamas prevented any attempt to climb the mountain from 1925 to 1933. In the early 1930s, John Buchan (a member of parliament (MP) for Scottish Universities…
The Tibetan "lamas" in London, December 1924
Francis Younghusband, about 1905
Lord Curzon, about 1902
Charles Bell, Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal and Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet (l–r), in 1910