Today’s Well-Dressed Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Mt. Everest pioneer Edward Felix Norton describes the clothing that he wore during the ill-fated 1924 Everest Expedition (where George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared attempting to summit):
“Personally, I wore a thick woolen vest [undershirt] and drawers, a thick flannel shirt and two sweaters under a lightish knickerbocker suit of windproof gaberdine, the knickers of which were lined with light flannel, a pair of soft elastic Kashmir putties [leggings wrapped like a bandage from ankle to knee] and a pair of boots of felt bound and soled with leather and lightly nailed with the usual Alpine nails. Over all I wore a very light pyjama suit of Messrs Burberry’s ‘Shackleton’ windproof gaberdine. On my hands I wore a pair of long fingerless woolen mittens inside a similar pair of gaberdine… On my head I wore a fur-lined leather motor-cycling helmet, and my eyes and nose were protected by a pair of goggles of Crooke’s glass, which were sewn into a leather mask that came well over the nose and covered any part of my face which was not naturally protected by my beard. A huge woolen muffler completed my costume.”
Around the camps, the climbers wore a ragtag assortment of old tweed trousers and Norfolk jackets, shirts, sweaters, even shorts, and thick, knee-high woolen socks; on their heads, rather stylish fedora hats. Says historian Audrey Salkeld, “When George Bernard Shaw saw pictures of one of the early Everest parties, he was amazed; it looked, he said, like a picnic in Connemara surprised by a snowstorm.”
Culled from: Ghosts of Everest
Pinteresting Morbidity!
Why post a vintage syphilis poster?
Because it’s there! (Snatched from Cathleen Early’s Pinterest.)
