The Clothing of the Early Mount Everest Mountaineers

[Edward]

Interesting to stumble over this thread again. I've been idly looking at some dedicated gear for doing a bit of hiking again next Summer, with an eye to keeping it all to my own aesthetic as much as possible, having realised that for the most part I can achieve my aims of what I'm after with a lot of repop military ger now. Not much different than the way I did things on my Duke ofc Edinburgh Award trail back in the early 90s, but more stylish than just the milsurplus of the day. I'll be investing in a pair of modern and hopefully not too visually offensive (within budget - Danner make beautiful boots, but £400 for getting covered in muck up some hills or round Epping Forest? Eesh. Not on my salary) boots if we take it up seriously, though.

I love the aesthetic of these old mountaineering campaigns, though I don't ever see myself doing a climb of that magnitude, or anything close to it.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

I have a photo . My father and many other soldiers in a giant fridge . He was a sergeant in the British army in late 1940's to early 1950's. And he told me a story. Whereby his commanding officer told him . You and your men. Are going to do a secret mission. In this massive man made fridge testing clothing for a few months. Didn't tell him why. After it was over . They picked out the best clothing. And it was revealed to him. They were testing the clothing . For Edmund Hillary's expedition up Everest. It was a British army funded expedition and the government was doing everything possible for Edmund Hillary to be the first . Which obviously he went on to be. True story...

Let’s see the photo, please.
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