Wheeler’s Everest

SYNOPSIS

A century ago on March 18,1921 the first expedition to Everest departed from Darjeeling, Indiato Tibet on a 360 mile trek to find a route to the world’s highest mountain. On this all-BritishExpedition was a lone Canadian: WWI veteran, surveyor and climber Major Oliver Wheeler, thebrave man behind the discovery of the ‘doorway’ to Everest and the first mapping of themountain and the surrounding Himalayan massif