Here is a small card written to Rev F Lishman and signed by Jack Longland, Educator, Mountain Climber and Broadcaster.
This card is dated 13th June 1953 and reads:-
Very many thanks for your extremely kind letter of 12th May. I am sorry not to have replied before but I have been away on holiday.
There have been a good many photographs of climbers on Everest, but I think it is likely that what you have recollected is a photograph of distant climbers on a snow slope which occurs in the 1924 Everest book of col. E.F. Norton "The Fight for Everest". Alternatively there is a photograph of porters or climbers on the ice slopes of the North Col just about to climb a rope ladder which was on the cover jacket of "Everest 1933" by Hugh Ruttledge, the same photograph is reproduced inside the book". J L Longland.
Sir Jack (John Laurence) Longland (June 26, 1905 - November 29, 1993) was an educator, mountain climber, and broadcaster.
He was educated at the King's School, Worcester, and Cambridge University. He lectured in English at Durham University from 1930 to 1936. He then served as Director of Education for Derbyshire for 23 years, from 1949. Whilst Director, in 1950, he established the outdoor centre at Whitehall, near Buxton, one of the first of its kind in the UK.
He was President of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club during a particularly productive era mid-war, and was later President of the British Mountaineering Council (1962-1965).
As a rock-climber, he was one of a group who opened up the harder grades, for instance with his 1928 ascent of Longland's Climb (VS) on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, Snowdon. Several of these first ascents were made with Ivan Waller. He also made the first ascent of Javelin Blade on the Holly Tree Wall at Idwal in 1930. As the CUMC site records, at E1 5b, this was "An outstanding lead that stood as the most difficult piece of Welsh climbing for many years, though few were aware of it".
As a mountaineer, he is remembered for his heroic actions during the 1933 expedition to Mount Everest led by Hugh Ruttledge, in which he brought down 8 Sherpas from Camp 6 (above 27,000ft) in a whiteout.
He was the chairman and occasional question-setter on on the BBC radio panel game My Word! from 1957 to 1977.
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