Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
I've decided to share some of the artifacts I have here in my office, items I've found over the years on the slopes of Mount Everest. But, being a bit of a history nerd myself, it's not just the object, but the story behind it.
So, with this first artifact, we'll go back to the early days on Everest, to 1922 - the second ever Everest expedition - and look at an old battery I found in 2001 at the site of the 1922 Camp III (Advanced Basecamp). A simple item with a big backstory.
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As noted in the video, some links of interest and relevance:
- John Noel's 1922 Everest film: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-climbing-mt-everest-1922-online
- My blog posts about various items and artifacts on Everest: jakenorton.com/?s=artifact
- Janette Elaine Faull's PHD thesis focusing on Noel and the history of Everest cinema - "Climbing Mount Everest: Expeditionary Film, Geographical
Science and Media Culture, 1922 – 1953": pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/files/37114068/2019faullje.phd.pdfVaw3gweks8v9G_k7wbhUEzcAg
I've decided to share some of the artifacts I have here in my office, items I've found over the years on the slopes of Mount Everest. But, being a bit of a history nerd myself, it's not just the object, but the story behind it.
So, with this first artifact, we'll go back to the early days on Everest, to 1922 - the second ever Everest expedition - and look at an old battery I found in 2001 at the site of the 1922 Camp III (Advanced Basecamp). A simple item with a big backstory.
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As noted in the video, some links of interest and relevance:
- John Noel's 1922 Everest film: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-climbing-mt-everest-1922-online
- My blog posts about various items and artifacts on Everest: jakenorton.com/?s=artifact
- Janette Elaine Faull's PHD thesis focusing on Noel and the history of Everest cinema - "Climbing Mount Everest: Expeditionary Film, Geographical
Science and Media Culture, 1922 – 1953": pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/files/37114068/2019faullje.phd.pdfVaw3gweks8v9G_k7wbhUEzcAg
