[eddie willers]

The book, Ghosts of Everest by Eric Simonson covers the north side extensively. As it is pertinent to the attempt to find Mallory and Irvine.

That's the book I picked out of boredom at the library.

It so fascinated me, that I began to really research Everest and read everything I could about it.

The picture you posted shows the "Third Step" ahead, hiding the "Snow Pyramid" that is the last feature before the summit. The picture below is the "Third Step" and beyond

Here's a great, compact photo showing the complete Route from the Northeast ridge, across a bit of the face, up to the ridge just before the "First Step", swoop below and go up the Middle of the Second Step, over the Third Step and, for most climbers, around the Snow Pyramid and up to the summit with a circuitous climb across the North Face.

[spunkets]

Thanks. Jamie McGuinness labeled that pic. It's also a link. Once over that, you're in the "ravine" shown in this pic-"A few steps from the top". They must have approached this along that wall he's on.

Their camp 3 is on a 45^o slope. It indicates the kind of ground they are on. Loose rocks. One guy got out of his tent to take a leak w/o his spikes and tumbled all the way down.