What was Jan Morris’s secret code to say that Everest had been climbed?

Snow conditions bad stop advanced base abandoned yesterday stop awaiting improvement

All well!Jan Morris, Coronation Everest

There have been many tributes to the journalist and travel writer Jan Morris, who died last month at the age of 94. She is famous for writing Pax Britannica, a trilogy about the British Empire, and for the travel books Venice and Trieste. She is perhaps most famous for being transsexual back in the days when it really wasn’t very common, an experience she wrote about in he...