
Two years later the Britons returned to the attack. Dr. T. H. Somervell and Lieut.-Colonel E. F. Norton reached 28.200 ft.
Somervell stopped, gasping horribly. Norton struggled on a few yards, reached the highest point from which any man has returned alive. He was snow-blind for days. The same year G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine started up from Camp No. 6. As they approached the peak a lone observer below saw them enveloped by a mist cloud. No one ever saw them again. It was Mallory who had answered for all Everest climbers when someone asked him why men risked their lives to scale the mountain: "Because it's there." (This report appeared in the TIME magazine in the 1930s).
Few more things about Dr. T. H. Somervell,...
A great swift Surgeon having stupendous stamina.....Did hemimandiblectomy and gastrectomy in 40 mts....Professor of Surgery,CMC Vellore.....Perhaps a Greater Missinary Doctor than Dr.Albert Schweitzer....Mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest twice.AUTHOR: Knife and Life in India , After Everest & Text Book of SurgeryExpert Painter,excellent musician.....
But above all a practical believer who took life as God gave it to him and found it not too precious to lose.... (
though I personally donot believe in his many other ideas fully )He worked in CSI Mission Hospital Neyoor for more than 20 years...
The point here I want to emphasize is his commitment and obedience rather his gifts and I hope Iam making myself clear...