"Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great
mountains sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment
and now another through the floating rifts,until far higher
in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit
of Everest appeared." George Mallory, 1921.
-"Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine". 
Firstbrook, Peter.1999.  page 45.
Mt. Everest. Summer 2001. Bill Ozanne