Bentley Beetham rock-climbing in the Lake District. By the early 1920s, man had conquered the planet’s poles, but the highest mountain stood out like a sore thumb.

Bentley Beetham, born in 1886, spent much of his life living in Cotherstone, near Barnard Castle, where a plaque honouring him has been fixed onto the house where he used to live - number 3 Balder ...

The featured photographs are part of the Royal Geographical Society’s collections and were taken by John Noel, the expedition’s official photographer and cinematographer; Bentley Beetham; and ...

Bentley Beetham was a schoolmaster when he was chosen to join an expedition to reach the summit in 1924. The team included George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, who died just below the summit, ...

Bentley Beetham Trust chairman Graham Ratcliffe said the photographs represented "a timeless record of a world that is fast disappearing". The 1924 expedition set out with the aim of its members ...

The name Bentley Beetham has echoes of a genteel distant past, but in his day his tales of derring-do led to a series of articles in the Sunday Sun.

Tue 15 Oct 10.14am • Revisiting the journey of Bentley Beetham, the schoolmaster chosen to brace Mount Everest in 1924.

Bentley Beetham, of Barnard Castle, who accompanied me and who has before seen the Force under frozen conditions, favours the first-mentioned alternative for the origin of the ice-glaçons.

A teacher who was part of an attempt to conquer Mount Everest, has been honoured in the village where he lived. Bentley Beetham was a schoolmaster when he was chosen to join an expedition to reach ...

Bentley Beetham was a schoolmaster when he was chosen to join an expedition to reach the summit in 1924. The team included George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, who died just below the summit, ...