The British Embassy in Kathmandu on Tuesday held an event to mark the centenary of the 1924 Mt Everest expedition.

The British Embassy in Kathmandu said in a statement that a photo exhibition about the 1924 expedition was mounted at the embassy on Tuesday.

Entitled ‘The Fight for Everest 1924,’ it was first displayed at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (Kimff) last week. The collection will be permanently displayed at the Pokhara-based International Mountain Museum.

Speaking at the event at the embassy, Ambassador Rob Fenn commented that, although the 1924 expedition had not come to Kathmandu, Nepalis played an important role in it and “have continued to be pivotal in Everest attempts since.”

“Britons are besotted with raw courage. It’s what has been drawing us to Nepal and to Nepalis for more than two hundred years,” he said.

Ambassador Fenn shared news announced in the UK in December that Nepalis are now eligible to apply for expedition funding from the UK-based Mount Everest Foundation (www.mef.org.uk/news/mef-opens-grants-to-nepali-applicants). Since its inception in 1955, the MEF has provided funds to over 2,000 expeditions in remote locations and to scientists researching high-altitude medicine, glaciology and climate change.