Shortly before my Q&A at Tetbury Book Festival I was approached by Dermot McMeekin, grandson of Dr Tom Longstaff. For me, Longstaff is one of the true heroes of The White Ladder.
Dermot invited me to meet his mother, Lady Anne McMeekin, Longstaff’s only surviving daughter, who was kind enough to show me some photographs and share a few memories of her father.
Alistair Roberts, grandson of Geoffrey Bruce and author of ‘Forgotten Man of Everest’, was also at the festival. So here I am, pictured with direct descendants of not one but two members of the 1922 Mount Everest expedition.
