Mount Everest: the Reconnaissance, 1921
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  • Charles Howard-Bury
    • His Early Life
    • Always Moving On
    • The Celestial Mountains
    • The First World War
  • Exploring Everest
    • Mother and Goddess
    • The Third Pole
    • Taking the First Steps
    • An Arduous Journey
    • Tibet in 1921
    • Mapping the Unknown
    • On the Mountain
    • Coming back to Earth
    • Printing the Legend
  • Legacy
    • Subsequent Everest Expeditions
    • Fame and Politics
    • A Home in Belvedere
    • Marian Keaney's Publications
    • The 1993 Expedition to Everest
    • The Howard-Bury Collection
    • Continue Exploring...

We had experience of
wonderful moments...

An exhibition to commemorate Charles Howard-Bury
and the 1921 reconnaissance mission to Mount Everest
The exhibition is researched and designed by Ian Kenneally
on behalf of
​Westmeath County Council and Belvedere House and Gardens.



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Photos are provided by:
Marian Keaney, the Charles-Howard Bury Collection of Westmeath Library Services, the National Library of Ireland, the Royal Geographical Society, the Alpine Club Photo Library, London, ​and the Frank Nugent Collection.



The exhibition title comes from an account by George Leigh Mallory, a member of the 1921 reconnaissance team:
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​'
It is the property of all that is most sublime in mountain scenery to be uniquely splendid, or at least to seem so, and it is commonly the fate of the sublime in this sort very soon to be mixed with what is trivial. Not infrequently we had experience of wonderful moments...'



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​This exhibition is part of Westmeath County Council's ​Decade of Centenaries programme

See our blog on the years 1919-1921
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Belvedere House, Gardens & Park
Belvedere, Mullingar
County Westmeath
N91 EF80, Ireland

Contact Details:

Web: belvedere-house.ie
Tel.  +353 (0)44 9338960
Fax. +353 (0)44 9349002
​Email: [email protected]

For queries related to this exhibition email
​the Historian in Residence for County Westmeath:

[email protected]
  • Home
  • Charles Howard-Bury
    • His Early Life
    • Always Moving On
    • The Celestial Mountains
    • The First World War
  • Exploring Everest
    • Mother and Goddess
    • The Third Pole
    • Taking the First Steps
    • An Arduous Journey
    • Tibet in 1921
    • Mapping the Unknown
    • On the Mountain
    • Coming back to Earth
    • Printing the Legend
  • Legacy
    • Subsequent Everest Expeditions
    • Fame and Politics
    • A Home in Belvedere
    • Marian Keaney's Publications
    • The 1993 Expedition to Everest
    • The Howard-Bury Collection
    • Continue Exploring...