ODELL, Noel Ewart (1890-1987). Geologist & mountaineer.
Autograph Letter Signed to Bushell, 2 pages 8vo (some traces of former mounting on the back), 182 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, 13 December 1932. Belatedly thanking Bushell for putting him up, and apologising for rushing off so early the next day and for upsetting the household.
Odell had been an oxygen officer on the Everest expedition in which Mallory and Irvine had lost their lives, and was the last person to see them alive. Odell himself had spent two weeks living without oxygen at above 23,000 feet.
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