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Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds marks the centenary of the 1924 Mount Everest expedition.
It tells the almost forgotten story of the Sherpas who worked on the mountain, highlighting their contribution to the 1920s expeditions to Everest. 

Using stunning photographs presented in large-format vivid lightboxes, combined with displays of artefacts, including the now famous recreation of George Mallory’s climbing outfit found when his body was finally discovered on Everest in 1999, the exhibition shares fascinating archives from the Royal Geographical Society and the Mountain Heritage Trust.
With funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council there has been research into the hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers on Everest.  These expeditions relied on a huge army of indigenous labourers working in a range of roles like interpreters, porters, high-altitude climbers, cooks, mail runners, photographic and collection assistants. 

The exhibition takes a step back from the usual narratives around the 1924 expedition, setting them in a wider context of the people and places that surrounded the mountain, and the transforming effects of mountain tourism
The exhibition offers interactive family activities too along with a small traversing climbing wall.

Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, shares photographs and mountaineering artefacts from the Royal Geographical Society and the Mountain Heritage Trust in the centenary year of the 1924 Mount Everest expedition.

Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds

This summer holiday, get your heart rate pumping, test teamwork and improve your balance. From badminton to hula hooping, pick up the kit and have a go. You’ll find the activities on the West Lawn or in one of the picnic areas around Wray, look out for colourful festival banners and bunting to find them. 

Fancy something a bit more chilled? Challenge someone to a game of noughts and crosses on the front terrace picnic tables.  

Daily from 29 June–1 September 

Kit will be available for play between 10am-4pm

Summer of Play is sponsored by Starling Bank

Imagine you’re preparing for an adventure of a lifetime: scaling Mount Everest. Kick start your training by getting active at Wray, with free fun activities around the grounds.

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